20160603Cherry,a famous clock

20160603Cherry,a famous clock

2016-06-03    01'02''

主播: Magic&Logic

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介绍:
A famous clock 一个著名的大钟 When youvisit London,one of the first things you will see is Big Ben, the famous clock which canbe 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. Big Bentakes 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. On theB.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 thecorrect time. A painter who had been working on the tower hung a pot of painton one of thehands and slowed it down!