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第一段
1 .Good morning, and welcome to the museum - one with a remarkable range of exhibits, which I'm sure you'll enjoy.
早上好，欢迎来到博物馆--它是一个有着相当多数量的展品的博物馆，我相信你会喜欢的．
2 .My name's Greg, and I'll tell you about the various collections as we go round.
我的名字是格雷戈，我会在参观的时候告诉你们关于我们的各种收藏品．
3 .But before we go, let me just give you a taste of what we have here.
但在我们出发之前，让我来带你们品味下我们这里有的东西．
第二段
1 .Well, for one thing, we have a fine collection of twentieth and twenty-first century paintings, many by very well-known artists.
嗯，首先，我们有优秀的二十世纪和二十一世纪的绘画作品，许多都是由非常著名的艺术家创作的．
2 .I'm sure you'll recognise several of the paintings.
我肯定你会认出一些画．
3 .This is the gallery that attracts the largest number of visitors, so it's best to go in early in the day, before the crowds arrive.
这也是这个画廊可以吸引最多人数游客的原因，所以最好早点过来参观，在大量客流到来之前．
第三段
1 .Then there are the nineteenth-century paintings.
接着就是十九世纪的绘画作品．
2 .The museum was opened in the middle of that century,
在那个世纪中叶，博物馆开业了，
3 .and several of the artists each donated one work - to get the museum started, as it were.
那时候的一些艺术家每人捐赠一副作品给博物馆--从而让博物馆开业了，那是那个时候的它．
4 .So they're of special interest to us - we feel closer to them than to other works.
所以他它们对我们有特殊的兴趣--比起其他的作品我们会更亲近它们．
第四段
1 .The sculpture gallery has a number of fine exhibits, but I'm afraid it's currently closed for refurbishment.
雕塑馆中有许多精美的展品，但恐怕目前是关闭状态主要为了整修．
2 .You'll need to come back next year to see it properly, but a number of the sculptures have been moved to other parts of the museum.
你需要明年再来参观，但有一批雕塑被移到博物馆的其他地方了．
第五段
1 .'Around the world' is a temporary exhibition - you've probably seen something about it on TV or in the newspapers.
“世界各地”是一个临时性的展览，你可能在电视或报纸上看到了一些相关的信息．
2 .It's created a great deal of interest, because it presents objects from every continent and many countries,
它创造了大量的兴趣，因为它展出的对象来自每一个大陆和许多国家，
3 .and provides information about their social context - why they were made, who for, and so on.
并提供了有关它们的社会背景的信息--包括为什么它们被制作出来，为谁而制作等等．
第六段
1 .Then there's the collection of coins.
然后就是硬币的收藏．
2 .This is what you might call a focused, specialist collection,
这就是你所说的一个集中的，专门的收藏，
3 .because all the coins come from this country, and were produced between two thousand and a thousand years ago.
因为所有的硬币都来自这个国家，并在两千年前和一千年前这段时间内制造的．
4 .And many of them were discovered by ordinary people digging their gardens, and donated to the museum!
许多硬币都是被普通人在他们的花园中挖掘出来，并捐赠给博物馆．
第七段
1 .All our porcelain and glass was left to the museum by its founder, when he died in 1878.
所有我们的瓷器和玻璃都是由它的创始人留下的，在他在1878年去世时．
2 .And in the terms of his will, we're not allowed to add anything to that collection:
在他的遗嘱里，我们不允许再增加任何东西：
3 .he believed it was perfect in itself, and we don't see any reason to disagree!
他认为它本身就是完美的，而我们也看不到任何理由不同意这说法．