When you visit London, one of the first things you will see is Big Ben, the famous clock which can be heard all over the world on the B.B.C. If the Houses of Parliament had not been burned down in 1834, the great clock would never have been erected.
當(dāng)你游覽倫敦時(shí)，你最先看到的其中一棟建筑一定是大本鐘，你可以在全球的BBC當(dāng)中聽到這個(gè)著名的鐘。如果不是1834年國(guó)會(huì)大廈失火的話，這棟大鐘是不會(huì)被建造的。

Big Ben takes its name from Sir Benjamin Hall who was responsible for the making of the clock when the new Houses of Parliament were being built. It is not only of immense size, but is extremely accurate as well. Officials from Greenwich Observatory have the clock checked twice a day.

大本鐘的名字來源于他的設(shè)計(jì)者本杰明·哈爾，建造國(guó)會(huì)大廈時(shí)負(fù)責(zé)建造大本鐘的人。它不僅大，還極其準(zhǔn)時(shí)。格林尼治的官員們每天兩次校正它的時(shí)間。

On the B.B.C. you can hear the clock when it is actually striking because microphones are connected to the clock tower. Big Ben has rarely gone wrong. Once, however, it failed to give the correct time. A painter who had been working on the tower hung a pot of paint on one of the hands and slowed it down!

在BBC你能聽到鐘響，因?yàn)殓娝献婧剂他溈孙L(fēng)。大本鐘很少走錯(cuò)，然而某一次，它走錯(cuò)了。一個(gè)在鐘塔上工作的油漆工把油漆桶掛在了某根表針上，導(dǎo)致它走慢了！