威廉·布雷克的预言-英语听力

[00:01.420]At the end of the 18th century,
18世纪末， [00:03.620]poet and visionary William Blake,
诗人与预言家威廉·布雷克 [00:06.080]prophesied a city where awfulness and wonder become the same thing.
预言这里将会变成丑陋与美妙共存的城市， [00:12.110]Industrialisation, the machine age and the railways
工业化、机器时代和铁路， [00:16.020]would transform the look and the experience of the city.
将使这座城市呈现出崭新的面貌， [00:21.500]No more the beautiful neo-classical Georgian city,
伦敦再也不是乔治王时期的新古典主义之城， [00:25.110]London was to become a huge sprawling metropolis.
而是即将发展成为一座庞大的都市。 [00:29.350]1 million inhabitants in 1800
1800年的100万名居民 [00:32.280]would become six and a half million a century later.
将在一个世纪后发展为650万， [00:36.100]Now the truest pictures of London
伦敦最真实的画面 [00:38.940]would find beauty and inspiration in the most horrific qualities of the city.
将在这座城市最糟糕的特质中寻找美和灵感。 [01:03.180]This immense view of the sprawling metropolis
这幅描绘扩张大都会的画卷， [01:06.030]was billed as an illusionistic scene designed to thrill and excite.
曾被认为是哗众取宠的虚幻景象。