走进剑桥大学 第6期:难道桥也会叹息
难道桥也会叹息
Bridge of Sighs in Cambridge is a covered bridge belonging to St John’s College of Cambridge University. It was built in 1831 and crosses the River. Cam between the college’s Third Court and New Court. The architect was Henry Hutchinson.
剑桥大学的叹息桥是一座封闭的桥，隶属于剑桥大学圣约翰学院。这座桥建于1831年，横跨剑河,连接圣约翰学院的第三庭院和新庭院。该桥的设计师是亨利·哈钦森。
Bridge of Sighs is divided into three layers：the upper layer, the middle layer, and the lower layer. The lower layer is the half-oval arch, and the middle layer is a passage, also called “the gallery”，Differ from other galleries, the floor of the gallery is not straight, but arched, which means the walkers-by have to cross the bridge on the slope. The whole bridge is in light yellow.
叹息桥被分成三层：顶层、中层和底层。它的底层是一个半椭圆形的桥拱，中层是一个通道，也叫做“长廊”。与其他的长廊不同的是，长廊的通道不是平直的，而是拱形的，意味着路人过桥要上下坡。整座桥是浅黄色的。
Bridge of Sighs came into being because the building of New Court made necessary a second crossing of the river between it and Third Court, and New Court’s architect seized the opportunity for some more charming and allusive romanticism. Today it is part of the main thoroughfare through the College and used daily by those who live and work here.
新庭院的建立使得它和第三庭院之间必须要有第二条通道过河，所以人们才修建了叹息桥。而新庭院的建筑师也抓住这个机会修桥，他想把桥建得更迷人，并让这座桥散发神秘的气息。今天这座桥是通往圣约翰学院的主要通道，生活和工作在那里。
On two separate occasions, students have pulled the prank of dangling a car under the bridge. In the first incident, a 1928 Austin 7 was punted down the river using four punts that had been lashed together, and then hoisted up under the bridge using ropes. In the second incident, a Reliant Regal three-wheeler car was dangled under the bridge. In neither case was the bridge damaged.
学生们把车悬吊在桥底，在不同的时段玩起了相似的恶作剧。在第一次恶作剧中，一辆1928年生产的奥斯汀车被托在四艘连在一起的方头平底船上，然后学生们再用绳索把船吊到桥底。在第二次恶作剧中，一辆“罗宾”牌三轮车被吊到了桥底下。两次恶作剧都没有对桥造成损害。
Now the bridge is one of Cambridge’s main tourist attractions and Queen Victoria is said to have loved it more than any other spots in the city.
现在叹息桥是剑桥市主要的旅游景点之一。据说在剑桥市的所有景点中，维多利亚女王最喜欢的就是叹息桥。
Interestingly, there is also a bridge called bridge of sighs in the University of Oxford, because of its similarity to the famous Bridge of Sighs in Venice. The bridge was originally named as Hertford Bridge, because it located in Hertford College.
有意思的是，在牛津大学也有一座桥叫做叹息桥，名字的来源也是因为它和著名的威尼斯叹息桥有相似之处。牛津的叹息桥起初叫做赫特福德桥，因为它位于赫特福德学院。
And Hertford Bridge is never intended to be a replica of the Venetian bridge, and indeed it bears a closer resemblance to the Rialto Bridge in the same city.
赫特福德桥并不想成为威尼斯叹息桥的复制品，事实上，它和位于威尼斯的里亚托桥更相似。
There is a false legend saying that many decades ago, a survey of the health of students was taken, and as Hertford College’s students were the heaviest, the college closed off the bridge to force them to take the stairs, giving them extra exercise.
还有一个错误的传说认为是几十年前，牛津大学进行了一次学生健康状况调查, 鉴于赫特福德学院的学生是全校学生中体重最重的，赫特福德学院就把桥的通道关上，迫使学生们走楼梯，让他们多运动。的人们每天都从那走过。
