万花筒 2009-02-12&02-13 英女皇的新网站
时间：2018-12-11 作者：英语课 分类：万花筒2009年
"Officially launch the new British Monarchy 1 website."
She is a monarchess doing her best to keep pace with modern technology. And with a click, she invited the world to take a virtual 2 tour of Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle. It's the second time that royal.gov.uk has been revamped since it first went online 12 years ago. None of these would be possible without the man who invented the World Wide Web.
"There are all kinds of archives and photographs and things inside this website, so a good site …website for me is something where if you are intrigued 3 you can then go in and discover more and more."
The new site is described as more user-friendly. Now you can see if any royals are heading your way using Google Maps and access documents uploaded from the Royal Archives.
"It's a vast improvement on the last site. One of most obvious changes is the design. We've lost that gustily 4 purple and pink color scheme and it's a lot cleaner and fresher. It's a lot of nice new features on there as well."
There's more video from present and past.
"You have playing fields." "Well, you've come to right place and you wish we could just guard and buy you a field. I'm afraid it's not as easy as that.
Naturally her staff won’t divulge 5 how much time the Queen spends online or what website she views. It's been reported she emails her grandchildren but dictates 6 the messages rather than type them herself. And though there is a form to send a message to Her Majesty 7, the Palace admit that only a proper letter will guarantee a reply. And feedback is not encouraged. Viewers of the Youtube section aren't allowed to post any comments on what they think of the videos.
Nearly 400,000 people took the official tour through the Buckingham Palace State Room last year. Compare that to the quarter of a million people, who visit the monarchy's website every single week. These improvements means that if you can’t come here in person, the virtual tour can give you the next best thing.
Ian Woods, Sky News, Buckingham Palace.
- The monarchy in England plays an important role in British culture.英格兰的君主政体在英国文化中起重要作用。
- The power of the monarchy in Britain today is more symbolical than real.今日英国君主的权力多为象徵性的，无甚实际意义。
- This reply is a virtual acceptance of our offer.这一回答实质上是接受了我们的建议。
- At that time the East India Company was the virtual ruler of Bengal.那时东印度公司是孟加拉的实际统治者。
- You've really intrigued me—tell me more! 你说的真有意思—再给我讲一些吧！
- He was intrigued by her story. 他被她的故事迷住了。
- They refused to divulge where they had hidden the money.他们拒绝说出他们把钱藏在什么地方。
- He swore never to divulge the secret.他立誓决不泄露秘密。