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．

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．

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．

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．

I'm sure you'll recognise several of the paintings.

我肯定你会认出一些画．

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．

Then there are the nineteenth-century paintings.

接着就是十九世纪的绘画作品．

The museum was opened in the middle of that century,

在那个世纪中叶，博物馆开业了，

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．

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．

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．

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．

'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．

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，

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．

Then there's the collection of coins.

然后就是硬币的收藏．

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，

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．

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．

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．

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：

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．