倫敦大本鍾的由來英語閱讀

Ⅰ 英國的大笨鍾的名字有什麼來歷啊

英國大笨鍾的來歷：

大笨鍾也叫作伊麗莎白塔，於1858年4月10日建成，是英國最大的鍾。塔有320英尺高，分針有14英尺長，伊麗莎白塔用人工發條，國會開會期間，鍾面會發出光芒，每隔一小時報時一次。

每年的夏季與冬季時間轉換時會把鍾停止，進行零件的修補、交換、鍾的調音等。2017年8月14日，英國國會下議院決定對伊麗莎白塔進行維修，維修時間長達4年。

預計到2021年伊麗莎白塔才能再度發聲。2017年11月10日早上9點整，伊麗莎白塔准時敲響，為停戰紀念日活動做調試准備。

(1)倫敦大本鍾的由來英語閱讀擴展閱讀：

大笨鍾作為英國的標志性建築，大家一定認為它名字的來源一定是經過嚴密的商議審核的。其實不然，在大本鍾建造完之後，英國人經常能在BBC中聽到大本鍾鏗鏘有力的聲音。

但是如何命名大本鍾確實難倒了英國的國會大臣。有趣的是，最終的名字則採用了建築師本傑明的昵稱本。

大笨鍾修建於十九世紀中期，在英國修建Jubilee地鐵線的時候，對大本鍾的位置產生了影響。據測量，現在的大本鍾向西北方向傾斜了五十公分，但是這並不影響大本鍾的報時和觀光效果。

英國人每年都會在大笨鍾下面慶祝和迎接新年的到來。自從大本鍾建成以來，它曾經停走過幾次，這就需要技術人員定期的對其進行調整和檢修。

英國政府每五年就要對大本鍾進行一次徹底的大檢查，清洗，替換大本鍾的報時輪系等。這對英國國會而言，是一筆不小的支出。

據說，大本鍾曾經幾次裂開，但是都被及時發現進行了補修。盡管大笨鍾已經有一個多世紀的歷史了，但是至今鍾聲依然悠揚動聽。

Ⅱ 英國大本鍾名字的來歷

BEN 是一個人的人名，是當時「大本鍾」項目的負責人，是以他的名字命名的

Ⅲ 英文介紹大笨鍾

Big Ben is the nickname for the great bell of the clock at the north-eastern end of the Palace of Westminster in London.[1] The nickname is often also used to refer to the clock and the clock tower.[2] This is the world's largest four-faced, chiming clock and the third largest free-standing clock tower in the world.[3] It celebrates its 150th birthday in 2009,[4] ring which celebratory events are planned.[5]

The nearest London Underground station is Westminster.

Contents [hide]
1 Tower
2 Clock
2.1 Faces
2.2 Mechanism
2.3 Malfunctions and breakdowns
3 Bells
3.1 Great Bell
3.2 Chimes
4 Nickname
5 Significance in popular culture
6 Awards
7 See also
8 References
9 External links

Tower

The Palace of Westminster, the Clock Tower and Westminster BridgeThe tower was raised as a part of Charles Barry's design for a new palace, after the old Palace of Westminster was destroyed by fire on the night of 22 October 1834.

The new Parliament was built in a Neo-gothic style. Although Barry was the chief architect of the Palace, he turned to Augustus Pugin for the design of the clock tower, which resembles earlier Pugin designs, including one for Scarisbrick Hall. The design for the Clock Tower was Pugin's last design before his final descent into madness and death, and Pugin himself wrote, at the time of Barry's last visit to him to collect the drawings: "I never worked so hard in my life for Mr Barry for tomorrow I render all the designs for finishing his bell tower & it is beautiful."[6] The tower is designed in Pugin's celebrated Gothic Revival style, and is 96.3 metres (315.9 ft) high.

The bottom 61 metres (200 ft) of the Clock Tower's structure consists of brickwork with sand coloured Anston limestone cladding. The remainder of the tower's height is a framed spire of cast iron. The tower is founded on a 15-metre (49 ft) square raft, made of 3-metre (9.8 ft) thick concrete, at a depth of 4 metres (13 ft) below ground level. The four clock faces are 55 metres (180 ft) above ground. The interior volume of the tower is 4,650 cubic metres (164,200 cubic feet).

Because of changes in ground conditions since construction (notably tunnelling for the Jubilee Line extension), the tower leans slightly to the north-west, by roughly 220 millimetres (8.66 in) at the clock face, giving an inclination of approximately 1/250.[7][8] Due to thermal effects it oscillates annually by a few millimetres east and west.

Clock

Faces
The clock faces are large enough to have once allowed the Clock Tower to be the largest four-faced clock in the world, but have since been outdone by the Allen-Bradley Clock Tower in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. However, the builders of the Allen-Bradley Clock Tower did not add chimes to the clock, so the Great Clock of Westminster still holds the title of the "world's largest four-faced chiming clock".

The face of the Great Clock of Westminster. The hour hand is 2.7 metres (9 ft) long and the minute hand is 4.3 metres (14 ft) long.The clock and dials were designed by Augustus Pugin. The clock faces are set in an iron frame 7 metres (23 ft) in diameter, supporting 312 pieces of opal glass, rather like a stained-glass window. Some of the glass pieces may be removed for inspection of the hands. The surround of the dials is gilded. At the base of each clock face in gilt letters is the Latin inscription DOMINE SALVAM FAC REGINAM NOSTRAM VICTORIAM PRIMAM, which means O Lord, keep safe our Queen Victoria the First.

Mechanism

The Clock Tower at sk, with The London Eye in the backgroundThe clock is famous for its reliability. The designers were the lawyer and amateur horologist Edmund Beckett Denison, and George Airy, the Astronomer Royal. Construction was entrusted to clockmaker Edward John Dent, who completed the work in 1854. As the Tower was not complete until 1859, Denison had time to experiment: Instead of using the deadbeat escapement and remontoire as originally designed, Denison invented the double three-legged gravity escapement. This escapement provides the best separation between penlum and clock mechanism. The penlum is installed within an enclosed windproof box sunk beneath the clockroom. It is 3.9m long, weighs 300 kg and beats every 2 seconds. The clockwork mechanism in a room below weighs 5 tons.

The idiom of putting a penny on, with the meaning of slowing down, sprang from the method of fine-tuning the clock's penlum.[9] On top of the penlum is a small stack of old penny coins; these are to adjust the time of the clock. Adding or subtracting coins has the effect of minutely altering the position of the penlum's centre of mass, the effective length of the penlum rod and hence the rate at which the penlum swings. Adding or removing a penny will change the clock's speed by 0.4 second per day.

During The Blitz, the Palace of Westminster was hit by German bombing, on 10 May 1941, a bombing raid damaged two of the clockfaces and sections of the tower's stepped roof and destroyed the House of Commons chamber. Architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott designed a new five-floor block. Two floors are occupied by the current chamber which was used for the first time on 26 October 1950. Despite the heavy bombing the clock ran accurately and chimed throughout the Blitz.

Malfunctions and breakdowns
New Year's Eve 1962: The clock slowed e to heavy snow and ice on the long hands, causing the penlum to detach from the clockwork, as it is designed to do in such circumstances, to avoid serious damage elsewhere in the mechanism—the penlum continuing to swing freely. Thus it chimed in the new year 10 minutes late.[citation needed]
5 August 1976: First and only major breakdown. The speed regulator of the chiming mechanism finally broke after 100+ years of torsional fatigue, then the fully-wound 4 ton weights mped their entire potential energy into the chiming mechanism in one go. It caused a great deal of damage; the Great Clock was shut down for a total of 26 days over nine months - it was reactivated on 9 May 1977; this was its longest break in operation since it was built. During this time BBC Radio 4 had to make do with the pips.[10]
Friday, 27 May 2005: the clock stopped at 10:07 pm local time, possibly e to hot weather (temperatures in London had reached an unseasonal 31.8 ° (90 °F)). It restarted, but stopped again at 10:20 pm local time and remained still for about 90 minutes before restarting.[11]
29 October 2005: the mechanism was stopped for about 33 hours so the clock and its chimes could be worked on. It was the lengthiest maintenance shutdown in 22 years.[12]

The south clock face being cleaned on 11 August 20077:00 am 5 June 2006: The clock tower's "Quarter Bells" were taken out of commission for four weeks [13] as a bearing holding one of the quarter bells was damaged from years of wear and needed to be removed for repairs. During this period, BBC Radio 4 broadcast recordings of British bird song followed by the pips in place of the usual chimes.[14]
11 August 2007: Start of 6-week stoppage for maintenance. Bearings in the clock's drive train and the "great bell" striker were replaced, for the first time since installation.[15] During the maintenance works, the clock was not driven by the original mechanism, but by an electric motor.[16] Once again, BBC Radio 4 had to make do with the pips ring this time.

Bells

Great Bell
The main bell, officially known as the Great Bell, is the largest bell in the tower and part of the Great Clock of Westminster. The bell is better known by the nickname Big Ben.[17]

The original bell was a 16.3-tonne (16 ton) hour bell, cast on 6 August 1856 in Stockton-on-Tees by John Warner & Sons.[1] The bell was never officially named, but the legend on it records that the commissioner of works, Sir Benjamin Hall, was responsible for the order. Another theory for the origin of the name is that the bell may have been named after a contemporary heavyweight boxer Benjamin Caunt. It is thought that the bell was originally to be called Victoria or Royal Victoria in honour of Queen Victoria,[18] but that an MP suggested the nickname ring a Parliamentary debate; the comment is not recorded in Hansard.

Since the tower was not yet finished, the bell was mounted in New Palace Yard. Cast in 1856, the first bell was transported to the tower on a trolley drawn by sixteen horses, with crowds cheering its progress. Unfortunately, it cracked beyond repair while being tested and a replacement had to be made. The bell was recast at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry as a 13.76-tonne (13½ ton) bell.[19] This was pulled 200ft up to the Clock Tower』s belfry, a feat that took 18 hours. It is 2.2 metres tall and 2.9 metres wide. This new bell first chimed in July 1859. In September it too cracked under the hammer, a mere two months after it officially went into service. According to the foundry's manager, George Mears, Denison had used a hammer more than twice the maximum weight specified.[1] For three years Big Ben was taken out of commission and the hours were struck on the lowest of the quarter bells until it was reinstalled. To make the repair, a square piece of metal was chipped out from the rim around the crack, and the bell given an eighth of a turn so the new hammer struck in a different place.[1] Big Ben has chimed with an odd twang ever since and is still in use today complete with the crack. At the time of its casting, Big Ben was the largest bell in the British Isles until "Great Paul", a 17 tonne (16¾ ton) bell currently hung in St. Paul's Cathedral, was cast in 1881.[20]

Chimes

Click to hear BBC World Service announce itself, then play Westminster Chimes and the 12 strikes of Big Ben as broadcast at exactly 00:00:00 GMT on 1 January 2009.Along with the Great Bell, the belfry houses four quarter bells which play the Westminster Quarters on the quarter hours. The four quarter bells are G sharp, F sharp, E, and B (see Note). They were cast by John Warner & Sons at their Crescent Foundry in 1857 (G sharp, F sharp and B) and 1858 (E). The Foundry was in Jewin Crescent, in what is now known as The Barbican, in the City of London.

The Quarter Bells play a 20-chime sequence, 1–4 at quarter past, 5–12 at half past, 13–20 and 1–4 at quarter to, and 5–20 on the hour (which sounds 25 seconds before the main bell tolls the hour). Because the low bell (B) is struck twice in quick succession, there is not enough time to pull a hammer back, and it is supplied with two wrench hammers on opposite sides of the bell. The tune is that of the Cambridge Chimes, first used for the chimes of Great St Mary's church, Cambridge, and supposedly a variation, attributed to William Crotch, on a phrase from Handel's Messiah. The notional words of the chime, again derived from Great St Mary's and in turn an allusion to Psalm 37, are: "All through this hour/Lord be my guide/And by Thy power/No foot shall slide". They are written on a plaque on the wall of the clock room.[21][22]

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Nickname
The nickname Big Ben is the subject of some debate. The nickname was applied first to the Great Bell; it may have been named after Sir Benjamin Hall, who oversaw the installation of the Great Bell, or after boxing's English Heavyweight Champion Benjamin Caunt.[1][17][23][24] Now Big Ben is used to refer to the clock, the tower and the bell collectively, although the nickname is not universally accepted as referring to the clock and tower.[2][25][26][27] Some authors of works about the tower, clock and bell sidestep the issue by using the words Big Ben first in the title, then going on to clarify that the subject of the book is the clock and tower as well as the bell.[28][29]

Significance in popular culture
The clock has become a symbol of the United Kingdom and London, particularly in the visual media. When a television or film-maker wishes to quickly convey to a non-UK audience a generic location in Britain, a popular way to do so is to show an image of the Clock Tower, often with a Routemaster bus or Hackney carriage in the foreground.[30] This gambit is less often used in the United Kingdom, as it would suggest to most British people a specific location in London, which may not be the intention. The Clock Tower is often polled as the Most Iconic London Film Location.[31]

The sound of the clock chiming has also been used this way in audio media, but as the Westminster Quarters are heard from other clocks and other devices, the unique nature of this sound has been considerably diluted.

The Clock Tower ring the 2008/2009 New Years Eve Celebrations.The Clock Tower is a focus of New Year celebrations in the United Kingdom, with radio and TV stations tuning to its chimes to welcome the start of the year. Similarly, on Remembrance Day, the chimes of Big Ben are broadcast to mark the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month and the start of two minutes' silence.

ITN's News at Ten opening sequence features an image of the Clock Tower with the sound of Big Ben's chimes punctuating the announcement of the news headlines, and has done so on and off for the last 41 years. The Big Ben chimes continue to be used ring the headlines and all ITV News bulletins use a graphic based on the Westminster clock face. Big Ben can also be heard striking the hour before some news bulletins on BBC Radio 4 (6 pm and midnight, plus 10 pm on Sundays) and the BBC World Service, a practice that began on 31 December 1923. The sound of the chimes are sent in real time from a microphone permanently installed in the tower and connected by line to Broadcasting House.

Londoners who live an appropriate distance from the Clock Tower and Big Ben can, by means of listening to the chimes both live and on the radio or television, hear the bell strike thirteen times on New Year's Eve. This is possible e to what amounts to a offset between live and electronically transmitted chimes since the speed of sound is a lot slower than the speed of radio waves. Guests are invited to count the chimes aloud as the radio is graally turned down.

The Clock Tower has appeared in many films, most notably in the 1978 version of The Thirty-Nine Steps, in which the hero Richard Hannay attempted to halt the clock's progress (to prevent a linked bomb detonating) by hanging from the minute hand of its western face. It was also used in the filming of Shanghai Knights starring Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson, and was depicted as being partially destroyed in the Doctor Who episode "Aliens of London". An animated version of the clock and its inner workings were also used as the setting for the climactic final battle between Basil of Baker Street and his nemesis Ratigan in the Walt Disney animated film The Great Mouse Detective, and is shown being destroyed by a UFO in the film Mars Attacks!.

Awards
It was announced on 9 April 2008 that a survey of 2,000 people found that the tower was the most popular landmark in the United Kingdom.[32]

Ⅳ 大本鍾的英文資料（要帶翻譯的！！！！！！）

Big Ben is the nickname for the great bell of the clock at the north end of the Palace of Westminster in London,[1] and often extended to refer to the clock and the clock tower.[2] The tower is now officially called the Elizabeth Tower, after being renamed to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. The Elizabeth Tower holds the largest four-facedchiming clock in the world and is the third-tallest free-standing clock tower.[3] The tower was completed in 1858 and had its 150th anniversary on 31 May 2009,[4] ring which celebratory events took place.[5][6] The Elizabeth Tower has become one of the most prominent symbols of both London and England and is often in the establishing shot of films set in the city.
大本鍾（英語：Big Ben，或翻譯成大笨鍾、大鵬鍾）是英國國會會議廳附屬鍾樓的大報時鍾的昵稱，也常代指該鍾所在的鍾樓 。[1]
大本鍾坐落在英國倫敦泰晤士河畔的威斯敏斯特宮鍾塔上，是倫敦的標志之一。鍾樓高95米，鍾直徑9英尺，重13.5噸。每15分鍾響一次，敲響威斯敏斯特鍾聲。自從興建地鐵朱比利線之後，大本鍾受到影響，最近測量顯示大本鍾朝西北方向傾斜約半米[2]。
大本鍾的命名來源眾說紛紜，有一種說法稱大本鍾的名字來自於本傑明·豪爾爵士。
大鍾於1858年4月10日建成，是英國最大的鍾。塔起碼有320英尺高（約合97.5米），分針有14英尺長（約合4.27米），大本鍾用人工發條，國會開會期間，鍾面會發出光芒，每隔一小時報時一次。每年的夏季與冬天時間轉換時會把鍾停止，進行零件的修補、交換，鍾的調音等。
大本鍾的可靠性毋庸置疑，自從建成，倫敦格林威治天文台的官員每天兩次派人校對此鍾。不過有一次它把時間報錯了，因為一名在大本鍾上作業的油漆粉刷工在鍾面上掛了一個油漆桶，把鍾弄慢了。
2009年6月1日，歡慶啟用150周年。2012年6月26日，英國政府宣布為慶祝伊麗莎白二世登基60周年，將大本鍾所在的鍾樓正式改名為伊麗莎白塔。

Ⅳ 英國大笨鍾名字的由來

BEN 是一個人的人名，是當時「大本鍾」項目的負責人，是以他的名字命名的

倫敦鍾塔Big Ben，又回習慣以大笨鍾稱之。大鍾答的名字Benjamin，也許是從當時著名的拳擊手考特 (Benjamin Caunt）而來，或隨大鍾的建造者霍爾 (Benjamin Hall）而命名。

Ⅵ 關於大本鍾的簡介要英語的帶翻譯10個詞左右

英國倫敦著名古鍾或稱大笨鍾，即威斯敏斯特宮報時鍾英國國會會議廳附屬的鍾樓，建於1859年。安裝在西敏寺橋北議會大廈東側高95米的鍾樓上，鍾樓四面的圓形鍾盤，直徑為6.7米，是倫敦的傳統地標。
鍾重13.5噸，鍾盤直徑6.7米，時針和分針長度分別為2.75米和4.27米，鍾擺重305公斤。作為倫敦市的標志以及英國的象徵，大本鍾巨大而華麗，重13.5噸，四個鍾面的面積有兩平方米左右。大本鍾從1859年就為倫敦城報時，根據格林尼治時間每隔一小時敲響一次，至今將近一個半世紀。London, also known as a famous ancient bell Big Ben, the Palace of Westminster reported that the British Parliament clock tower attached to the Chamber was built in 1859. Installed on the east side of Westminster Bridge North parliament building 95 meters high bell tower, the bell tower surrounded by a circular disk with a diameter of 6.7 meters, is a traditional London landmarks.
Bell weighs 13.5 tons, 6.7 meters in diameter tray clock, hour and minute hands length of 2.75 meters and 4.27 meters, the penlum weight 305 kg. As a sign of the City of London and the UK a symbol of Big Ben and the great and magnificent, weighs 13.5 tons, four clock face area of two square meters. Big Ben in London from 1859 on the city of timekeeping, according to Greenwich Mean Time sounded once every hour and has nearly a century and a half 親~~請自行剪裁喔~~

Ⅶ 大本鍾中英文介紹

大本鍾
大笨鍾，或大本鍾（Big Ben），即威斯敏斯特宮鍾塔，英國國會會議廳附屬的鍾樓 (Clock Tower) 的大報時鍾的昵稱。是坐落在英國倫敦泰晤士河畔的一座鍾樓，是倫敦的標志性建築之一。鍾樓高95米，鍾直徑9英尺，重13.5噸。每15分鍾響一次。
大笨鍾的命名來源眾說紛紜，有一種說法稱大本鍾的名字來自於本傑明·豪爾爵士。
大鍾於1858年4月10日建成，是英國最大的鍾。塔起碼有320英尺高（約合97.5米），分針有14英尺長（約合4.27米），大笨鍾用人工發條，國會開會期間，鍾面會發出光芒，每隔一小時報時一次。
每年的夏季與冬天時間轉換時會把鍾停止，進行零件的修補、交換，鍾的調音等。
文化
在英國，大本鍾是人們慶祝新年的重點地方，收音機和電視都會播出它的鍾聲來迎接新一年的開始。同樣地，在陣亡將士紀念日，大本鍾鍾聲的傳出表示第11個月的第11天的第11個小時及2分鍾的默哀開始。
獨立電視新聞的「十時新聞報告」以一連串的大本鍾鍾聲作新聞預告的配樂作開始已很多年。大本鍾的鍾聲今天仍會用於所有獨立電視新聞 新聞快報的新聞預告，及威斯敏斯特宮大本鍾的鍾面圖。從1923年12月31日開始，大本鍾的鍾響亦可在於英國廣播公司第四台的一些新聞布告（6時正、半晚及星期天的晚上10時正）的一小時前及英國廣播公司國際廣播部聽到。鍾聲是經由長期設置在鍾樓內而連接著廣播大樓的擴音器傳送的。
大本鍾可用來說明光速和音速的分別。如果一個人到了倫敦並站在鍾樓下，他會聽到大本鍾的鍾聲比那鍾被敲響時的時間慢約是六分之一秒（假定鍾在高55米之處）。可是如果把一個擴音器放在鍾附近並用無線電把鍾聲傳至很遠的地方（像紐約市或香港般），那地方會比那站在鍾樓下的人更早聽到鍾聲。事實上，如果接收者把那鍾聲發回給在地面的那觀察者，無線電傳送那鍾聲會比那觀察者聽到真正鍾聲時更快。（例如：紐約市距倫敦5,562公里，而無線電會在0.018552秒內把鍾聲傳至紐約市；來回共需0.037105秒，但原來的鍾聲卻需0.1616秒才能達到地面）
鍾樓的圖像亦曾被用作倫敦電影的標志。

Clock Tower, Palace of Westminster

The Clock Tower is a turret clock structure at the north-eastern end of the Houses of Parliament building in Westminster, London, England. It is popularly known as Big Ben, but this name is actually a nickname for the clock『s main bell. The tower has also been referred to as St. Stephen『s Tower or The Tower of Big Ben, in reference to its bell.

Structure
The tower was raised as a part of Charles Barry『s design for a new palace, after the old Palace of Westminster was destroyed by fire on the night of October 16, 1834. The tower is designed in the Victorian Gothic style, and is 96.3 metres (316 feet) high.
The first 61 metres (250 feet) of the structure is the clock tower, consisting of brickwork with stone cladding; the remainder of the tower『s height is a framed spire of cast iron. The tower is founded on a 15 by 15 metre (49 by 49 foot) raft, made of 3-metre

Ⅷ 大笨鍾介紹 英文版

THE STORY OF BIG BEN
（沒有中文翻譯，反正也不是難的句子，看一下就能懂的）
At 9'-0" diameter, 7'-6" high, and weighing in at 13 tons 10 cwts 3 qtrs 15lbs (13,760 Kg), the hour bell of the Great Clock of Westminster - known worldwide as 'Big Ben' - is the most famous bell ever cast at Whitechapel. This picture, painted by William T. Kimber, the head moulder responsible for casting the bell, shows George Mears with his wife and daughter inspecting the casting prior to despatch. Big Ben was cast on Saturday 10th April 1858, but its story begins more than two decades earlier....
On 16th October 1834, fire succeeded where Guy Fawkes and his fellow plotters had failed on 5th November 1605, and destroyed the Palace of Westminster, long the seat of the British government. Those few bits of the Old Palace that survived the fire - most notably Westminster Hall, which was built between 1097 and 1099 by William Rufus - were incorporated into the new buildings we know today, along with many new features.

Big Ben remains the largest bell ever cast at Whitechapel. Visitors to the foundry pass through a full size profile of the bell that frames the main entrance as they enter the building. The original moulding gauge employed to form the mould used to cast Big Ben hangs on the end wall of the foundry above the furnaces to this very day.

Among the gift items available from Whitechapel Bell Foundry are a finely detailed miniature of the bell itself and an illustrated booklet about Big Ben. These can both be found on our merchandising page.

以下是中文介紹（和上面英語內容不一樣，僅供常識參考）
大本鍾
大本鍾（Big Ben，坐標：51°30′02.2〃N, 00°07′28.6〃W），或稱大笨鍾，即威斯敏斯特宮(Palace of Westminster)鍾塔，英國國會會議廳附屬的鍾樓 (Clock Tower) 的大報時鍾的昵稱。位於威斯敏斯特橋的南面橋頭，與英國議會大廈相連，英國議會大廈的北角，鍾樓高79米，鍾樓四面的圓形鍾盤，直徑為6.7米，是倫敦的傳統地標。坐地鐵可以在威斯敏斯特橋站下車。作為倫敦市的標志以及英國的象徵，大本鍾巨大而華麗，重13.5噸，四個鍾面的面積有兩平方米左右。大本鍾從1859年就為倫敦城報時，根據格林尼治時間每隔一小時敲響一次，至今將近一個半世紀，盡管這期間大本鍾曾兩度裂開而重鑄。現在大本鍾的鍾聲仍然清晰、動聽。

概述

1859年，大鍾由當時的英王工務大臣本傑明·霍爾爵士監制，鑄造時耗資2.7萬英鎊。「大本」鍾被視為倫敦的象徵，凡到倫敦觀光的人，無不想到鍾樓周圍，站在議會橋上欣賞倫敦這個獨具一格的建築。1834年整個西敏被大火所毀，目前的這座97米高的鍾樓是1837年維多利亞女王登基時建造的。大鍾造於1856年，以建造工程的第一名監督官本傑明爵士的名字命名，叫"BIG BEN"(大本鍾)。1857年該鍾出現裂痕，於1859年重新鑄造。。

大本鍾的確有些笨重.鍾盤的直徑為7米,有四個鍾面,時針和分針的長度分別為2.75米和4.27米,鍾擺重305公斤,大鍾總重量為13.5噸.

英國議會大廈原來並沒有鑲嵌大本鍾,1834年,因有人在議會大廈爐子里大量焚燒政府文件而引起火災,把大廈夷為平地.1840年議會大廈開始重建,大本鍾1859年建於議會大廈主體的東北角,由當時的工務大臣本傑明·霍爾爵士監制,耗資2.7萬英鎊,為了紀念他的功績,取名為大本鍾,本是本傑明的昵稱.

根據格林尼治時間,大本鍾每隔一個小時報時一次,報時聲深沉渾厚,方圓數英里之外都能聽到其鍾聲的回響.大本鍾裝有麥克風,與英國廣播公司(BBC)相連,因此每當大鍾報時,人們都能從BBC的廣播中聽到其鏗鏘有力的聲音.

這個鍾鑄造好以後，給它取什麼名字的問題難倒了英國君臣，有一個大臣悄悄地說「就叫『大本』算了。」——原來鑄鍾大臣姓「本」，後來大家都把這口鍾叫「大本」了，也就是「大笨」了。

「大本鍾」於2005年5月27日晚突然停走了1個多小時。技術人員現在還不明白這座有著147年歷史的大鍾為何「罷工」？ 英國議會大廈一名工程師28日說，位於議會大廈東側高95米的鍾樓上的大本鍾在當地時間27日晚10時07分出現了故障，其分針停止轉動。接著，分針開始緩慢轉動，在10時20分又停了一次。這一 停就是1個半小時，此後才恢復了正常。

一些人猜測說，可能是炎熱的天氣造成了這一問題。28日倫敦的最高氣溫達到了31．8攝氏度。氣象部門說，這是自1953年以來英格蘭地區5月份中最炎熱的一天。但那名議會大廈工程師認為，這一說法缺乏依據。「我們得知有一點小故障，但接著它就再次開始運轉，」他說。

大本鍾一向以其准時而聞名。二戰中納粹德國對倫敦的狂轟濫炸也未能將它摧毀。不過，畢竟是有著一百多歲的「高齡」，它也出過一些小問題。例如1962年元旦，一場大雪就讓它的零點鍾聲比正常時間晚了10分鍾。

Ⅸ 關於大本鍾的簡介，要英語的，簡單一點

The Big Ben is located in the tower at the eastern end of the Houses of Parliament, Westminster, Greater London. It was designed by Edmund Beckett and Baron Grimthorpe.

The Big Ben is very famous throughout the world, but nobody really knows why it is called Big Ben. There are two hearsays about this. Some people say that it was named after Benjamin Caunt, a boxer, who was called Big Ben. More people believe it was called after Welshman, Sir Benjamin Hall. He was the commissioner of the work at the time of its installation in 1859. A story was told that ring a debate in the Commons on what to call the bell, Sir Benjamin was about to give his ideas when a MP who sat behind the front bench shouted, "Let's call it Big Ben!" Then this name came into being.

The bell hasn't gone through a smooth road since the beginning of its design. Because there was great disagreement about the design of the clock, it took fifteen years to build. In 1857, the bell was completed and tested on the ground, but a four-foot crack appeared and the bell had to be cast again. Finally, the clock started ticking on 31 May, 1859, and struck its first chime on 11, July. Then in September, the bell cracked again. It was silent for four years but was eventually turned a quarter of a revolution. In this way, the crack was not under the striking hammer. Craftsmen made a square above the crack to stop it graving longer and it can still be seen today.

The Big Ben is famous not only for its 13-ton weight, but also for its accuracy which is a result of its precise mechanism. Even one extra penny's weight on the balance will cause a gain of two fifths of a second in twenty four hours. Although there have been several problem, the bell is still striking today. Its chimes can be heard all over the world on the B.B.C.

Ⅹ 大笨鍾的英文介紹

Big Ben
People all over the world write to Big Ben. They even send birthday presents. One present was a bottle of oil， to help keep Big Ben running. Big Ben is not a person. It's a clock！
Big Ben is a great clock high up in a tower of the parliament (議會) building. This is the building in London where laws are made. The people of London like to see Big Ben's friendly faces. They like to hear the chimes (鍾曲聲) every 15 minutes. They like to hear the big bell striking on the hour. BONG！ BONG！ BONG！
Radio sends the sound of the big clock to the rest of the world. The BBC began to broadcast the chimes in 1924. Ever since， Big Ben has been a radio star.
Big Ben's story started in 1834. In that year the old Parliament building burned down. Its clock tower crashed to the ground. There had to be a new building-and a new clock.
Plans were made. They called for a "King of Clocks， the biggest and best in the world". So the clock had to be big. And it had to keep very good time.
The big clock was made in two years. Five more years went by before the clock tower was finished， then the four bells for the chimes were brought into the tower. And at last the giant (巨大的) hour bell was put in place. It rang out for the first time on July 11， 1859.
This great bell had to have a name. A meeting of Parliament was called to pick one. The talk about names went on and on. Then Benjamin Hall got up to speak. He was a big man that the others liked. By this time they were all tired. Someone shouted， "Why not call it Big Ben？"
Everybody laughed， and the meeting broke up. The name Big Ben came from then on.