Canada unveils 2010 Olympic Winter Games countdown clock（通訊員稿）
[ 2007-02-15 09:58 ]
2010年冬奧會將在加拿大西部港口城市溫哥華舉行。12日，當地舉行了此次冬奧會倒計時鐘的啟動儀式。這座高達20英尺的倒計時鐘由鋼材，樹脂玻璃和紅香杉等材料制作而成，它將成為溫哥華的新地標，并將永遠留在溫哥華藝術館門前。
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| B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell (left) shakes hands with Stephen
Urquhart president of Omega as dignitaries look on during unveiling of the
Vancouver 2010 Countdown Clock in
Vancouver. |
A giant countdown clock was unveiled Monday in
Canada's pacific port city of Vancouver to mark the three-year countdown to the
opening ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.
"This clock that we unveiled today will remind us not just of the years,
the months and the weeks until we actually light that torch, but it will remind
us of how incredibly intense this competition is," said Gordon Campbell, Premier
of the British Columbia province, at the clock ceremony at the Vancouver Art
Gallery.
The clock, which measures 20-feet high, will count down the
remaining days, hours, minutes and seconds to the Opening Ceremonies of the 2010
Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
The clock was built by EEC Industries
of North Vancouver, with three massive columns of steel, Plexiglas and red cedar.
Vancouver's Karacters Design Group came up with the concept.
The
Countdown Clock will be permanently located on the Georgia Street Plaza of the
Vancouver Art Gallery, said Vancouver Organizing Committee CEO John
Furlong.
Vocabulary:
countdown clock:
倒計時鐘
Plexiglas: 樹脂玻璃
red
cedar: 紅香杉（香杉具有濃重的香味，心材的顏色從深紅棕色至粉色，各不相同。在重要商用材中,
紅香杉是重量最輕的樹種之一）
（北京林業大學通訊員 林宇投稿）
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