温莎城堡1-英语听力

[00:01.00]Windsor Castle is the ultimate monument to English tradition.
温莎城堡是英国传统最佳的诠释 [00:05.20]But it's also more than that.
但并不限于此 [00:07.00]It's a building that at different times in our history has stood as a symbol of momentous change.
这栋建筑，在不同的历史时期，有着标志性的重大变化。 [00:12.85]Windsor is the oldest,and the largest inhabited castle in the world.
温莎城堡是世界上最大最古老的有人居住的城堡， [00:19.25]It's been home to the country's monarchs for almost 1,000 years.
作为英国君主的住地，已有近千年的时间了。 [00:23.84]And it certainly looks every inch an ancient medieval fortress.
外表上看起来就是一座中世纪的古堡 [00:29.78]But the fascinating thing with this castle is that not everything about it is as it seems.
但是这座古堡引人入胜的历史，并不是表面看起来那么简单。 [00:36.47]From the outside,
外观上， [00:37.37]the heavy stone battlements and looming towers make it a forbidding spectacle.
石筑的城垛和耸立的高塔，构成了冷峻的画面 [00:43.55]Yet what makes it so special is how a castle was transformed into a palace.
然而最令人好奇的是这座古堡是怎么变成宫殿的？ [00:50.99]Because Windsor is the creation of different monarchs,
因为温莎古堡是由不同君主建造的 [00:54.04]each with their own style and ambition.
体现着各自的风格和野心 [00:56.93]The elegant rooms,the works of art,the grand and the intimate,the strange and the exotic.
典雅的房间，有艺术作品，有恢弘的气势，以及幽静的氛围，有奇特的异国物品 [01:09.06]During its long life,
在它漫长的历史中 [01:10.45]Windsor has been many things - a home to medieval chivalry and romance,
温莎城堡发生了许许多多的故事。这里有中世纪的骑士和浪漫 [01:16.59]a baroque palace to restore royal fortunes after a king lost his head,
有国王被砍头后恢复的巴洛克式宫殿 [01:22.28]and an architectural fantasy.
还有建筑的奇葩。