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50 Facts about the Queen's Reign
http://www.sina.com.cn 2002/02/16 11:33  新快报

  今年是英国女王伊丽莎白二世登基50周年,白金汉宫于近日公布了女王50个鲜为人知的生活趣闻。从她举办过多少次宴会及花园派对,到外访收到过的特别礼物,逐一详述,让世人再次了解到女王严肃面孔背后的私人生活。

  1. The Queen is the fifth longest serving British monarch. (She becomes the fourth longest serving monarch on 21 June 2002).

  是在位时间第五长的英国君主。

  2. Queen Elizabeth II is the fortieth monarch since William the Conqueror obtained the crown of England.

  是威廉王朝的第40任君主。

  3. Since 1952, The Queen has conferred 380,630 honours and awards.

  自1952年以来,共颁授38.63万个勋衔及奖章。

  4. The Queen has personally held 459 Investitures.

  主持459次授勋仪式。

  5. The first Investiture of the Queen's reign took place at Buckingham Palace on 27th February 1952.

  第一次授勋仪式是1952年2月27日在白金汉宫。

  6. The Queen has received around 3 million items of correspondence.

  共收到大约300万封信件。

  7. Over the course of the reign, well over a million people have attended garden parties at Buckingham Palace or the Palace of Holyroodhouse.

  共有超过100万人出席过女王主办的花园派对。

  8. Since 1952, The Queen has given Royal Assent to 3135 Acts of Parliament.

  自1952年以来,共批准通过3135项议会法案。

  9. Over the reign, Her Majesty has given regular Tuesday evening audiences to 10 Prime Ministers.

  共接见过10位英国首相。

  10. Tony Blair is the first Prime Minister to have been born during The Queen's reign. He was born in early May, 1953 - a month before the Coronation.

  布莱尔是女王任期内第一位出生的首相--1953年5月。

  11. The Queen is currently patron of 620 charities and organisations, 433 of which she has held since 1952.

  共赞助620个慈善事业和团体。

  12. In 50 years, The Queen has undertaken 251 official overseas visits to 128 different countries.

  海外官方访问251次,出访128个国家。

  13. Many of The Queen's official tours were undertaken on the Royal Yacht Britannia.

  女王多次出访均乘坐皇家游艇“大不列颠号”。

  14. The Royal Yacht Britannia was first used by The Queen on the 1st May 1954 at Tobruk for the final stage of their Commonwealth Tour returning to the Pool of London. The last time The Queen was on board Britannia for an official visit was on the 9th August 1997 for a visit to Arran.

  第一次乘坐“大不列颠号”是1954年5月1日,最后一次是1997年8月9日。

  15. By the end of 2002, The Queen will have visited Australia 14 times, Canada 20 times, Jamaica 6 times and New Zealand 10 times.

  统计到2002年末,女王出访澳大利亚将达到14次,加拿大20次,牙买加6次,新西兰10次。

  16. The Queen's official visits have ranged from the Cocos Islands, 5.4 square miles with a population of 655, to The Peoples' Republic of China, 3.7 million square miles with a population of 1.25 billion.

  女王的出访足迹遍及从5.4平方英里的可可斯群岛到370万平方英里的中国。

  17. Unusual live gifts given to The Queen on foreign tours include: two tortoises in the Seychelles in 1972; a seven-year-old bull elephant called "Jumbo" by the President of Cameroon in 1972 to mark The Queen''s Silver Wedding, and a canary after the State visit to Germany in 1965.

  曾收到过的古怪礼物包括:1972年在塞舌尔收到两只乌龟;同年获喀麦隆总统赠送7岁大象“珍宝”贺银婚;1965年访问德国收到金丝雀。

  18.The Queen has sent almost 100,000 telegrams to centenarians in the UK and the Commonwealth.

  共发出差不多10万封祝贺电报给百岁老人。

  19. The Queen has sent more than 280,000 telegrams to couples in the UK and the Commonwealth celebrating their diamond wedding (60 years) anniversary.

  共发出超过28万封祝贺电报给结婚60年(钻石婚)的夫妇。

  20. The Queen's real birthday is on April 21, but it is celebrated officially in June.

  女王的生日是4月21日,但官方庆祝是在6月。

  21. The Queen has attended 31 Royal Variety performances.

  共出席31次皇家表演活动。

  22. The Queen has given 88 State banquets during her reign.

  主办88次国家宴会。

  23. The Queen has launched 17 ships during her reign.

  主持17次船只下水仪式。

  24. The Queen have sent about 37,500 Christmas cards during The Queen's reign.

  共寄出3.75万封圣诞卡。

  25. The Queen has given out about 75,000 Christmas puddings to staff continuing the custom of King George V and King George VI.

  送了7.5万个圣诞布丁给王室员工。

  26. The Queen learnt to drive in 1945.

  1945年学会驾驶。

  27. The Queen was born at 17 Bruton St, London W1 on the 21st April, 1926, was christened on the 29th May, 1926 in the Private Chapel at Buckingham Palace and was confirmed on the 28th March, 1942 in the Private Chapel at Windsor Castle.

  女王出生于1926年4月21日,5月29日被命名,1942年3月28日受坚振礼正式成为教徒。

  28. With the birth of Prince Andrew in 1960, The Queen became the first reigning Sovereign to have a child since Queen Victoria.

  1960年安德鲁王子出世,成为自维多利亚女王之后第一位在位君主妈妈。

  29. The Queen has 30 godchildren.

  共有30个教子教女。

  30. The first football match The Queen attended was the 1953 FA Cup Final.

  1953年首次出席英国足总杯决赛。

  31. The Queen has been at the saluting base of her troops in every Trooping the Colour ceremony since the start of her reign, with the exception of 1955, when a national rail strike forced the cancellation of the parade.

  除1955年外,任内每年都出席皇家军队阅兵仪式。

  32. The Queen has sat for over 120 portraits during her reign. The most recent was painted in 2001 by Lucian Freud.

  拥有超过120幅个人画像。

  33. The first‘Royal walkabout' took place during the visit by The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh to Australia and New Zealand in 1970.

  第一次徒步旅行是1970年出访澳大利亚和新西兰期间。

  34. In 1969 the first television film about the family life of the Royal Family was made, and shown on the eve of the Investiture of Prince Charles as Prince of Wales.

  1969年第一部描写王室家庭生活的电视片播出。

  35. An important innovation during The Queen's reign was the opening in 1962 of a new gallery at Buckingham Palace to display items from the Royal Collection.

  1962年白金汉宫画廊首次对外开放,展出王室收藏。

  36. The only time The Queen has had to interrupt an overseas tour was in 1974 during a tour of Australia and Indonesia. The Queen was called back from Australia when a general election was called suddenly.

  惟一一次中断出访是1974年访问澳大利亚和印尼期间。

  37. The Queen has opened Parliament every year except 1959 and 1963, when she was expecting Prince Andrew and Prince Edward respectively.

  除1959年和1963年因怀有安德鲁王子和安德华王子未能出席之外,女王每年均参加议会。

  38. The Queen's first Commonwealth tour began on 24 November 1953, and included visits to Canada, Bermuda, Jamaica, Panama, Fiji, Tonga, New Zealand, Australia, the Cocos Islands, Ceylon, Aden, Uganda, Libya, Malta and Gibraltar. The total distance covered was 43,618 miles.

  第一次出访全体英联邦国家是在1953年11月24日,行程长达4.3618万英里。

  39. The Queen has made a Christmas Broadcast to the Commonwealth every year of her reign except 1969, when a repeat of the film“Royal Family”was shown and a written message from The Queen issued.

  除1969年外,女王每年圣诞节均要向英联邦国家发表演说。

  40. In 1953, The Queen made the first Christmas Broadcast from overseas, broadcasting live from New Zealand. The first televised broadcast was in 1957, made live. The first prerecorded broadcast took place in 1960 to allow transmission around the world.

  1953年在新西兰第一次发表圣诞演说,1957年第一次通过电视发表演说,1960年第一次通过录音向全球转播。

  41. History was made in 1982 when Pope John Paul II visited Britain, the first Pope to do so for 450 years. The Queen, Titular Head of the Church of England, received him at Buckingham Palace.

  1982年,教皇保罗二世访问英国,成为450年首位访问英国的教皇。

  42. The Queen has attended 46 Royal Maundy services in 35 cathedrals during her reign. A total of 5,100 people have received Maundy Money in recognition of their service to the Church and their communities.

  共出席46次王室洗足礼,有5100人获发奖金。

  43. During the Silver Jubilee year, The Queen toured thirty-six counties in the UK and Northern Ireland, starting in Glasgow on the 17th May.

  在天主教大赦年25周年纪念日,女王共访问了英国和北爱的36个郡。

  44. The Queen's first foreign tour of the Silver Jubilee year was a visit to Western Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia and Papua New Guinea. The first foreign tour of The Queen's Golden Jubilee year is to Jamaica, New Zealand and Australia.44.女王45. The Queen has owned more than 30 corgis during her reign, starting with Susan who was a present for her 18th birthday in 1944. Her Majesty currently has four corgis - Pharos, Swift, Emma and Linnet.

  1944年18岁生日时获赠第一只威尔士矮脚狗“苏珊”,共养过30多只,目前仍养有4只。

  46. The Queen also introduced a new breed of dog known as the "dorgi" when one of Her Majesty's corgis was mated with a dachshund named Pipkin which belonged to Princess Margaret. There have been 8 dorgis - Tinker, Pickles, Chipper, Piper, Harris, Brandy, Cider and Berry.

  将威尔士矮脚狗与玛格丽特公主的德国猎狗混种,生出8只命名为“dorgis”的混种狗。

  47. The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh have been married for 54 years. They were married on November 20, 1947 in Westminster Abbey. The Queen''s wedding dress was designed by Norman Hartnell and was woven at Winterthur Silks Limited, Dunfermline, in the Canmore factory, using silk that had come from Chinese silkworms at Lullingstone Castle.

  女王与爱丁堡公爵结婚54年。

  48. The Queen's wedding ring was made from a nugget of Welsh gold which came from the Clogau St David''s mine near Dolgellau. The official wedding cake was made by McVitie and Price Ltd, using ingredients given as a wedding gift by Australian Girl Guides.

  女王的结婚戒指是由一块威尔士纯金制成。

  49. The Queen has laid her wreath at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday every year of her reign, except in 1959, 1961, 1963, 1968, 1983 and 1999 when she was either pregnant or overseas on an official visit.

  除1959年、1961年、1963年、1968年、1983年和1999年外(怀孕或正在国外进行官方访问),每年都要参加阵亡将士纪念日(每年的11月11日或最近该日的星期天)的纪念活动。

  50. There have been five Archbishops of Canterbury during The Queen's reign.

  共历经五位大主教。

  The Queen making an appearance on the balcony of Buckingham Palace, 1953.Detail from a lunch scene at Windsor Castle filmed for the television programme“Royal Family”made in 1969. The Queen attends Ascot in the third decade of her reign.The Queen travels to open Parliament during the fourth decade of her reign.The Queen makes her traditional Christmas broadcast to the Commonwealth, recorded on December 13, 2001.




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