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hello everyone it's Tuesday

大家好，今天是周二

I'm Thegraph and this is BBC News

我是格拉夫，这里是BBC新闻

round coming up today

今天的节目内容有

Chinique and some lucky news round us

奇尼克带来我们身边的好消息

get a sneak peek at the Baya Tapestrue

抢先观赏贝叶挂毯

we meet a superstar freestyle footballer

我们将见到一位花式足球巨星

and the Snakes auditioning for a part at the theater

还有参加剧院试镜的蛇队

but first the nearly thousand year old Baya

首先来看有近千年历史的贝叶

Tapestry tells the incredible story of the Battle

挂毯讲述了一场战役的传奇故事

of Hastings in 1066

即1066年的黑斯廷斯战役

one of the most important events in English history

它是英国历史上最重要的事件之一

the tapestry is now on

这款挂毯目前正在

display for the very first time in the UK

英国首次公开展出

and Shaniqua has had a chance to see it

尚妮卡有幸提前参观了挂毯

before it opens to the public take a look

公开展出前我们一起来看看

it stretches nearly 70 metres long

它全长近70米

with every single detail stitched by hand

所有细节均为手工缝制

it tells the story

它讲述的是

of one of the most remarkable battles

英国历史上最知名的

in English history

战役之一

and last year French President Macron

去年法国总统马克龙

announced

宣布

that it would be making a very special journey

它将开启一场特别的旅程

in the run up to the

为了迎接

1000th

一千周年

anniversary of the birth of William the Conqueror

征服者威廉的诞辰纪念日

France will loan the United Kingdoms of Bayou Tapestry

法国将把贝叶挂毯借给英国展出

which brings me to this massive building here

接下来我们面前的这座宏伟建筑

the British Museum in London

就是伦敦大英博物馆

the tapestry's home

挂毯的展出地

well at least for a little while anyway

至少短期内会在这里展出

come on

跟我来

I'm here to meet 2 history buffs Muhammad and Roman

我今天要见两位历史爱好者：穆罕默德和罗曼

who wanted a chance to learn more about the tapestry

他们想深入了解贝叶挂毯

with me today

今天和我同行

hey boys hi it's Niko

嘿，你们好，我是尼科

are you ready to see the tapestry

准备好去看挂毯了吗

yes I'm very excited yeah me too

是的，我超期待！我也是

come on let's go

走吧，我们进去

because the tapestry is

因为这款挂毯

so old

历史非常悠久

it has to be laid completely flat in a very dark room

必须平放在光线极暗的展厅里

so that light doesn't damage it

避免光线造成损坏

whoa

哇

wow is that fucking

天呐，这也太

70 meters is a lot of tapestry to cover

70米的挂毯可真长啊

thankfully historian Dr

幸好历史学家

Millie Horton Inch is here to help us out

米莉·霍顿·英奇博士会为我们讲解

so what we're looking at now

我们现在看到的

in this part for tapestry is the Battle of Hastings

挂毯的这部分描绘的就是黑斯廷斯战役

so William the Duke of Normandie

所以诺曼底公爵威廉

Harold is now King of England

哈罗德现任英格兰国王

are fighting and at this point in the battle

正在交战，此时战场上

the Normans are losing

诺曼人处于劣势

French are losing

法国人处于劣势

and a rumor has gone around the battlefield

这时有谣言在战场传开

that William Duke of Normandy has died but he hasn't

说诺曼底公爵威廉战死了，但他没死

and he's lifting up his helmet to say look

他掀起头盔大喊：你们看

I'm alive you should keep fighting

我还活着，继续战斗

did the English have archers

英格兰人有弓箭手吗？

we know that the English did have archers

我们确定英格兰人确实有

but that the Normans might have had more

但诺曼人的弓箭手可能更多

or they might have been a bit better

或者技术更精湛一些

because they're really

因为他们在挂毯上

really displayed prominently in the tapestry

被刻画得非常醒目突出

Millie we know this tapestry is very old

米莉，我们都知道这挂毯年代久远

how do they manage to keep it in such good condition

他们是怎么把它保存得这么完好的？

a lot of the reason it survived so well is just luck

它能保存完好很大程度是靠运气

and also it was sort of rolled up and forgotten

另外它曾被卷起来遗忘了

about for hundreds of years

好几百年的