今昔对比照:风风雨雨百年伦敦街头风貌依旧

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  A fascinating new map has revealed what London's packed pavements and congested roads used to look like during much simpler times.

  一组让人惊叹的地图展现了英国伦敦在那些朴实年代里熙熙攘攘的街道画面。

  The composite images blend modern street views of tourist crowds, hybrid buses, construction zones and chicken shops with vintage snaps from as far back as the late 1800s, when the roads were used by horse-drawn carriages.

  这些合成照片组合了伦敦现代街头的旅游人群、混合动力公交车、建筑群以及烤鸡店,还有早在19世纪的老照片。当时的伦敦,路上还都是马车。

  Using Google Street View, the map displays now-and-then images of 14 locations, from Clapham Common and Buckingham Palace to Oxford Circus and Fleet Street.

  通过运用谷歌街头视角,这些地图展示了包括克拉芬公园、白金汉宫牛津街和舰队街在内的14个地方。

  A shot of Fleet Street from 1890s shows horse-drawn carriages travelling along a narrow dirt road, with St Paul's Cathedral in the distance.

  上图是19世纪90年代舰队街上的马车沿着狭窄而泥泞的街道行驶,不远处是圣保罗大教堂。

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  Oxford Circus, one of the most popular shopping destinations in the world, drew crowds of smartly-dressed locals in 1904.

  1904年的牛津街,是世界上最受欢迎的购物地之一,吸引了成群穿着得体的本地人。

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  A photo from 1905 shows a busy scene at Covent Garden, with wagons overloaded with goods and locals wearing their finest clothes.

  1905年的这张照片展示了科芬园(伦敦中部一个蔬菜花卉市场)的繁忙景象,货车载着满满当当的货物,而人们穿着最精致的衣服。

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  With giant electronic signs and flashing lights, tourists are known to linger at Piccadilly Circus. The vintage snap was taken in 1949.

  有着巨大电子标识和耀动灯光的皮卡迪利广场(戏院及娱乐中心)上,聚集了很多游客。这张旧照拍摄于1949年。

  In the decades since these vintage photos were taken, London's population has swelled and the capital has become one of the world's most popular destinations for tourists.

  在这些旧照片拍摄后的几十年里,伦敦的人口急剧增长,也一度成为全世界最受游客欢迎的旅游景点之一。

  But back then there was a different kind of chaos on the streets, based on the images composed by Expedia.

  根据Expedia拍摄的照片,那时候的街道有着一种特殊的混乱。

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  There were no crowds at the gates and no pedestrian barriers at Buckingham Palace when this vintage snap was taken in 1908.

  在1908年拍摄这张照片的时候,白金汉宫门口没有拥挤的人群,也没有行人限行栏杆。

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  The Plough Inn at Clapham Common in 1915, with a horse and carriage alongside an early version of an open-top double-decker bus.

  1915年克拉芬公园的普拉酒店,以及早期的敞开式双层公交巴士旁边的马和车。

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  Horse-drawn carriages and early versions of the automobile and double-decker buses make their way through a quiet Whitehall in 1910.

  1910年,马车、早期的汽车和双层巴士行驶过安静的白厅。

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  A crowd waits outside Westminster Abbey in 1911. At right in the vintage photo, a Royal Mail horse and carriage delivers the post.

  1911年,在威斯敏斯特大教堂外等待的人群。照片的右边,皇家邮递马车正在送信。

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  The Stockwell War Memorial, a street car and a double-decker bus feature in this photo that was taken sometime in the 1920s.

  20世纪20年代的斯托克韦尔战争纪念碑,照片给了路上的汽车和双层巴士特写镜头。

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  Just as fascinating, this composite image shows how little has changed around the Palace of Westminster (date unknown).

  (日期不详)从这些迷人的合成照片中,看得出来威斯敏斯特广场附近没有一点变化。

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  This is what Harrods, the upmarket department store in Knightsbridge, looked like around 1940, long before the tourist coaches arrived.

  这张图片看起来像1949年,这就是当时的哈罗德以及骑士桥的高档百货商店,照片中,观光巴士尚未到达。

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  This photo taken at Hyde Park in the 1920s shows the proliferation of the automobile in the capital, although horses were still used.

  这张照片拍摄于20世纪20年代的海德公园,照片中可以看出汽车在首都的泛滥,尽管马仍在使用。

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  Other photos in the collection show a horse-drawn carriage and pedestrians at Cheapside, London's financial centre, in 1909.

  照片集中的其他照片也展示了1909年伦敦金融中心齐普赛街上的马车和行人。

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  Bond Street station is seen at right in the vintage snap taken on Oxford Street circa 1961, the oldest photo in the collection。

  这张照片拍摄于1961年的牛津广场,是相片集中最老的一张,照片右边可以看到邦德街车站。

  Houses of Parliament, Hyde Park corner, Stockwell, Harrods, Piccadilly Circus and Oxford Circus are also featured.

  国会大厦、海德公园街角、斯托克韦尔、哈罗兹(英国著名百货公司)、皮卡迪利广场和牛津广场都进入了照片合集。

  Ultimately, the comparisons reveal just how much some landmarks and buildings have changed very little or not at all over the years.

  经过对比我们最终发现,伦敦的地标、建筑在过去的那些年里变化微乎其微,或者几乎没有发生变化。

  (来源:沪江英语)

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