参观大英博物馆展览品有感的中英学习资料

参观大英博物馆展览品有感

英文

Good morning. The British Museum opened itsdoors on this day in 1759, the first national publicmuseum in the world. Sir Hans Sloane hadgathered 71,00 0 artefacts from many parts of theworld and these formed the core of the col lection.

5,000 visitors a year to begin with hasgrown to six million annually now. As s uccess stories go, the British Museum is hard to beat.

I must have been eleven when I first went there. I recall being surprised that noteverything in the British Museum came from Britain. My juvenile and lite ral mind neededbroadening. Fortunately my education provided windows ont o different cultures andhistories. At places like the British Museum many of u s realise how much we have to learnfrom countries we’ve never visited, peopl e we’ve never met and things which happenedlong before we were born. Recent events in France have prompted people everywhere to defend freedo m ofexpression and assert their right to say what they think. Understandably . But we rarelyhave much that’s informed or challenging to say about diffe rent cultures, religions andideologies if we know little about them. Those who want to destroy western culture willhave done so very effectively if they sto p us being curious about what makes othersdifferent. Diminished sympathie s curb our curiosity.

The current exhibition at the British Museum Germany: memories of a nati on finishes inten days’time. Together with its associated radio series, it’s tau ght us a great deal aboutthe triumphs and tragedies of German history and c ulture. I was born a few years after theend of the Second World War. My par ents’war time experience meant that as a child Ifeared Germany though I’d never met any Germans. My attitude changed after a visit toGermany when I was 19.

Perhaps a good response to what’s happened recently would be to learn mor e aboutIslamic art, religion and culture, some of which can be explored at the Victoria and AlbertMuseum, for example. We should try to experience other f aiths and cultures at theirstrongest if we are to understand them well. During the time of the Crusades, Francis of Assisi went on a missionary journ ey to Egypt.He was sickened by the fighting but met the Sultan, probably ho ping either to convert himor die a martyr. Instead, Francis came away chan

ged not in his Christian faith but in hisattitude, instructing his followers to live with Muslims in peace. It’s one of the reasons whywherever you go in the Ho ly Land today, you’ll often find Franciscans manning the shrinesand holy plac es. Encounter often enlarges sympathies. And can lead to unexpected outco mes.

1.artefact n.文物；手工艺品

They also repair broken religious artefacts.

他们也修补破损的宗教手工艺品。

2.curb n. 抑制；路边；勒马绳vt. 控制；勒住

He curbed his temper.

他控制住了自己的脾气。

3.Crusades n. 十字军东征；十字军

During the Crusades, Western Europe tried to contain the spread of Islam.

十字军东征期间，西欧各国设法遏制伊斯兰势力的扩张。

4.martyr vt. 牺牲；折磨；杀害n. 烈士；殉道者

St. Pancras was martyred in 304 A.D.

圣·潘克瑞斯在公元304年蒙难。

1.He was sickened by the fighting but met theSultan, probably hopin

g either to convert himor die a martyr.

be sickened by对...感到恶心、不舒服

They were sickened by the scenes of misery anddegradation they found.

目睹困苦、潦倒的景象，他们感到心里极不舒服。

The Bishop said he was sickened by the severity of the sentence.

主教说他对如此重的量刑大为震惊。

第4 页：参考译文

早上好，大英博物馆于1759年的今天对外开放，它是全世界第一座国家级公共博物馆。

汉斯·斯隆爵士从世界各地收集了7.1万件文物，并构成了博物馆藏品的核心。最初每年只有5000名游客，现在已经发展到每年600万人。作为这方面的成功故事，大英博物馆无可匹敌。

我第一次参观大英博物馆时应该是11岁，我还记得令我吃惊的人，大英博物馆中并非每一件藏品都来自英国。我少年的心灵需要得到扩展，幸运的是通过接受教育，我了解了各种文化和历史。在像大英博物馆这样的地方，我们很多人都意识到自己能从那些从未到过的国家、那些从未遇到过的人、那些在我们出生之前就发生的事那里学到多少东西。