William: Well, I'm now on The Mall, and this is a road that leads away from Buckingham Palace. And this road is very very wide and it looks amazing when it's closed to traffic. And the reason it looks amazing is because the colour of the road is red. So when you look down the Mall, towards Buckingham Palace, it looks like a great big red carpet going up to the palace.
Yang Li: William 说检阅大道看上去非常漂亮因为整个路面刷成了红色,看上去就象是通向白金汉宫的一条巨大的红地毯。
下面 William 的车轮子转到了 Whitehall. 不过在这段录音里他说,这条大街上有一条小岔道,非常有名。注意听这条著名的小道是什么名字。
William: Well, I'm on another big busy road called Whitehall. And Whitehall used to lead up to an enormous palace called the Palace of Whitehall, but this was destroyed in 1698. Nowadays, Whitehall is where you'll find many government departments. And just off Whitehall we have a very tiny street, it's called Downing Street. It's where the Prime Minister lives, at number 10.
Yang Li: Downing Street, 唐宁街是英国首相的官邸所以非常有名。不过它还不是伦敦最有名的地标建筑。London's most famous landmark.
William: Well, I'm now outside London's most famous landmark. I'm talking, of course, about the clock tower to Big Ben. And that's part of the Houses of Parliament or what's sometimes called the Palace of Westminster.