伦敦大本钟的由来英语阅读

Ⅰ 英国的大笨钟的名字有什么来历啊

英国大笨钟的来历：

大笨钟也叫作伊丽莎白塔，于1858年4月10日建成，是英国最大的钟。塔有320英尺高，分针有14英尺长，伊丽莎白塔用人工发条，国会开会期间，钟面会发出光芒，每隔一小时报时一次。

每年的夏季与冬季时间转换时会把钟停止，进行零件的修补、交换、钟的调音等。2017年8月14日，英国国会下议院决定对伊丽莎白塔进行维修，维修时间长达4年。

预计到2021年伊丽莎白塔才能再度发声。2017年11月10日早上9点整，伊丽莎白塔准时敲响，为停战纪念日活动做调试准备。

(1)伦敦大本钟的由来英语阅读扩展阅读：

大笨钟作为英国的标志性建筑，大家一定认为它名字的来源一定是经过严密的商议审核的。其实不然，在大本钟建造完之后，英国人经常能在BBC中听到大本钟铿锵有力的声音。

但是如何命名大本钟确实难倒了英国的国会大臣。有趣的是，最终的名字则采用了建筑师本杰明的昵称本。

大笨钟修建于十九世纪中期，在英国修建Jubilee地铁线的时候，对大本钟的位置产生了影响。据测量，现在的大本钟向西北方向倾斜了五十公分，但是这并不影响大本钟的报时和观光效果。

英国人每年都会在大笨钟下面庆祝和迎接新年的到来。自从大本钟建成以来，它曾经停走过几次，这就需要技术人员定期的对其进行调整和检修。

英国政府每五年就要对大本钟进行一次彻底的大检查，清洗，替换大本钟的报时轮系等。这对英国国会而言，是一笔不小的支出。

据说，大本钟曾经几次裂开，但是都被及时发现进行了补修。尽管大笨钟已经有一个多世纪的历史了，但是至今钟声依然悠扬动听。

Ⅱ 英国大本钟名字的来历

BEN 是一个人的人名，是当时“大本钟”项目的负责人，是以他的名字命名的

Ⅲ 英文介绍大笨钟

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 大本钟的英文资料（要带翻译的！！！！！！）

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.
大本钟（英语：Big Ben，或翻译成大笨钟、大鹏钟）是英国国会会议厅附属钟楼的大报时钟的昵称，也常代指该钟所在的钟楼 。[1]
大本钟坐落在英国伦敦泰晤士河畔的威斯敏斯特宫钟塔上，是伦敦的标志之一。钟楼高95米，钟直径9英尺，重13.5吨。每15分钟响一次，敲响威斯敏斯特钟声。自从兴建地铁朱比利线之后，大本钟受到影响，最近测量显示大本钟朝西北方向倾斜约半米[2]。
大本钟的命名来源众说纷纭，有一种说法称大本钟的名字来自于本杰明·豪尔爵士。
大钟于1858年4月10日建成，是英国最大的钟。塔起码有320英尺高（约合97.5米），分针有14英尺长（约合4.27米），大本钟用人工发条，国会开会期间，钟面会发出光芒，每隔一小时报时一次。每年的夏季与冬天时间转换时会把钟停止，进行零件的修补、交换，钟的调音等。
大本钟的可靠性毋庸置疑，自从建成，伦敦格林威治天文台的官员每天两次派人校对此钟。不过有一次它把时间报错了，因为一名在大本钟上作业的油漆粉刷工在钟面上挂了一个油漆桶，把钟弄慢了。
2009年6月1日，欢庆启用150周年。2012年6月26日，英国政府宣布为庆祝伊丽莎白二世登基60周年，将大本钟所在的钟楼正式改名为伊丽莎白塔。

Ⅳ 英国大笨钟名字的由来

BEN 是一个人的人名，是当时“大本钟”项目的负责人，是以他的名字命名的

伦敦锺塔Big Ben，又回习惯以大笨钟称之。大钟答的名字Benjamin，也许是从当时著名的拳击手考特 (Benjamin Caunt）而来，或随大钟的建造者霍尔 (Benjamin Hall）而命名。

Ⅵ 关于大本钟的简介要英语的带翻译10个词左右

英国伦敦著名古钟或称大笨钟，即威斯敏斯特宫报时钟英国国会会议厅附属的钟楼，建于1859年。安装在西敏寺桥北议会大厦东侧高95米的钟楼上，钟楼四面的圆形钟盘，直径为6.7米，是伦敦的传统地标。
钟重13.5吨，钟盘直径6.7米，时针和分针长度分别为2.75米和4.27米，钟摆重305公斤。作为伦敦市的标志以及英国的象征，大本钟巨大而华丽，重13.5吨，四个钟面的面积有两平方米左右。大本钟从1859年就为伦敦城报时，根据格林尼治时间每隔一小时敲响一次，至今将近一个半世纪。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 亲~~请自行剪裁喔~~

Ⅶ 大本钟中英文介绍

大本钟
大笨钟，或大本钟（Big Ben），即威斯敏斯特宫钟塔，英国国会会议厅附属的钟楼 (Clock Tower) 的大报时钟的昵称。是坐落在英国伦敦泰晤士河畔的一座钟楼，是伦敦的标志性建筑之一。钟楼高95米，钟直径9英尺，重13.5吨。每15分钟响一次。
大笨钟的命名来源众说纷纭，有一种说法称大本钟的名字来自于本杰明·豪尔爵士。
大钟于1858年4月10日建成，是英国最大的钟。塔起码有320英尺高（约合97.5米），分针有14英尺长（约合4.27米），大笨钟用人工发条，国会开会期间，钟面会发出光芒，每隔一小时报时一次。
每年的夏季与冬天时间转换时会把钟停止，进行零件的修补、交换，钟的调音等。
文化
在英国，大本钟是人们庆祝新年的重点地方，收音机和电视都会播出它的钟声来迎接新一年的开始。同样地，在阵亡将士纪念日，大本钟钟声的传出表示第11个月的第11天的第11个小时及2分钟的默哀开始。
独立电视新闻的“十时新闻报告”以一连串的大本钟钟声作新闻预告的配乐作开始已很多年。大本钟的钟声今天仍会用于所有独立电视新闻 新闻快报的新闻预告，及威斯敏斯特宫大本钟的钟面图。从1923年12月31日开始，大本钟的钟响亦可在于英国广播公司第四台的一些新闻布告（6时正、半晚及星期天的晚上10时正）的一小时前及英国广播公司国际广播部听到。钟声是经由长期设置在钟楼内而连接著广播大楼的扩音器传送的。
大本钟可用来说明光速和音速的分别。如果一个人到了伦敦并站在钟楼下，他会听到大本钟的钟声比那钟被敲响时的时间慢约是六分之一秒（假定钟在高55米之处）。可是如果把一个扩音器放在钟附近并用无线电把钟声传至很远的地方（像纽约市或香港般），那地方会比那站在钟楼下的人更早听到钟声。事实上，如果接收者把那钟声发回给在地面的那观察者，无线电传送那钟声会比那观察者听到真正钟声时更快。（例如：纽约市距伦敦5,562公里，而无线电会在0.018552秒内把钟声传至纽约市；来回共需0.037105秒，但原来的钟声却需0.1616秒才能达到地面）
钟楼的图像亦曾被用作伦敦电影的标志。

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 大笨钟介绍 英文版

THE STORY OF BIG BEN
（没有中文翻译，反正也不是难的句子，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.

以下是中文介绍（和上面英语内容不一样，仅供常识参考）
大本钟
大本钟（Big Ben，坐标：51°30′02.2〃N, 00°07′28.6〃W），或称大笨钟，即威斯敏斯特宫(Palace of Westminster)钟塔，英国国会会议厅附属的钟楼 (Clock Tower) 的大报时钟的昵称。位于威斯敏斯特桥的南面桥头，与英国议会大厦相连，英国议会大厦的北角，钟楼高79米，钟楼四面的圆形钟盘，直径为6.7米，是伦敦的传统地标。坐地铁可以在威斯敏斯特桥站下车。作为伦敦市的标志以及英国的象征，大本钟巨大而华丽，重13.5吨，四个钟面的面积有两平方米左右。大本钟从1859年就为伦敦城报时，根据格林尼治时间每隔一小时敲响一次，至今将近一个半世纪，尽管这期间大本钟曾两度裂开而重铸。现在大本钟的钟声仍然清晰、动听。

概述

1859年，大钟由当时的英王工务大臣本杰明·霍尔爵士监制，铸造时耗资2.7万英镑。“大本”钟被视为伦敦的象征，凡到伦敦观光的人，无不想到钟楼周围，站在议会桥上欣赏伦敦这个独具一格的建筑。1834年整个西敏被大火所毁，目前的这座97米高的钟楼是1837年维多利亚女王登基时建造的。大钟造于1856年，以建造工程的第一名监督官本杰明爵士的名字命名，叫"BIG BEN"(大本钟)。1857年该钟出现裂痕，于1859年重新铸造。。

大本钟的确有些笨重.钟盘的直径为7米,有四个钟面,时针和分针的长度分别为2.75米和4.27米,钟摆重305公斤,大钟总重量为13.5吨.

英国议会大厦原来并没有镶嵌大本钟,1834年,因有人在议会大厦炉子里大量焚烧政府文件而引起火灾,把大厦夷为平地.1840年议会大厦开始重建,大本钟1859年建于议会大厦主体的东北角,由当时的工务大臣本杰明·霍尔爵士监制,耗资2.7万英镑,为了纪念他的功绩,取名为大本钟,本是本杰明的昵称.

根据格林尼治时间,大本钟每隔一个小时报时一次,报时声深沉浑厚,方圆数英里之外都能听到其钟声的回响.大本钟装有麦克风,与英国广播公司(BBC)相连,因此每当大钟报时,人们都能从BBC的广播中听到其铿锵有力的声音.

这个钟铸造好以后，给它取什么名字的问题难倒了英国君臣，有一个大臣悄悄地说“就叫‘大本’算了。”——原来铸钟大臣姓“本”，后来大家都把这口钟叫“大本”了，也就是“大笨”了。

“大本钟”于2005年5月27日晚突然停走了1个多小时。技术人员现在还不明白这座有着147年历史的大钟为何“罢工”？ 英国议会大厦一名工程师28日说，位于议会大厦东侧高95米的钟楼上的大本钟在当地时间27日晚10时07分出现了故障，其分针停止转动。接着，分针开始缓慢转动，在10时20分又停了一次。这一 停就是1个半小时，此后才恢复了正常。

一些人猜测说，可能是炎热的天气造成了这一问题。28日伦敦的最高气温达到了31．8摄氏度。气象部门说，这是自1953年以来英格兰地区5月份中最炎热的一天。但那名议会大厦工程师认为，这一说法缺乏依据。“我们得知有一点小故障，但接着它就再次开始运转，”他说。

大本钟一向以其准时而闻名。二战中纳粹德国对伦敦的狂轰滥炸也未能将它摧毁。不过，毕竟是有着一百多岁的“高龄”，它也出过一些小问题。例如1962年元旦，一场大雪就让它的零点钟声比正常时间晚了10分钟。

Ⅸ 关于大本钟的简介，要英语的，简单一点

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 大笨钟的英文介绍

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 (议会) 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 (钟曲声) 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.