伦敦苍穹下——古老与现代交替的日不落

如果要用一个词来代表伦敦,那会是什么?绅士、阴天、brit-pop、双层巴士、女王、诺丁山、奥运、福尔摩斯……这些都还不够,伦敦作为世界四大城市之一,地的居民来自世界各地,城市里使用的语言超过三百种,她就像一个大熔炉,把这些多元化的特征淬炼成一个令人着迷的城市。这是一个新与老并存的都市,她的历史、她的文化、她的时髦、她的古典,所有的一切都会让你目不暇接

London’s past and present

London was the world’s largest city from about 1831 to 1925.London’s overcrowded conditions led to cholera epidemics,claiming 11.000 lives in 1818.and 6,000 in866.Rising traffic congestion led to the creation of the world’s first local urban rail network The Metropolitan Board of Works oversaw infrastructure expansion in the capital and some of the surrounding counties:it was abolished in 1889 when the London County Council was created out of those areas of the counties surrounding the capital.The Blitz and other bombing by the German Luftwaffe during World War II killed over 30,000 Londoners and destroyed large tracts of housing and other buildings across London.Immediately after the war.the 1948 Summer Olympics were held at the original Wemblev Stadium,at a time when the city had hareh recovered from the war.