女王登基60周年 肖像邮票首次大公开

女王登基60周年 肖像邮票首次大公开

今年是英国女王伊利莎白二世登基60周年，英国上下欢欣鼓舞，把这当做头等大事来对待。英国皇家邮政也为了庆祝这一盛事，特别推出了一组印有女王各时期肖像的邮票。这可是女王肖像首次大公开哦！

The Royal Mail has issued a special sheet of first class stamps to mark the 60th anniversary of the Queen’s accession to the throne. The Diamond Jubilee Miniature Sheet, issued today, is the first time that the official portraits of the Queen, which have been used on stamps, coins and banknotes throughout her reign, have been brought together for a set of stamps. 英国皇家邮政为庆祝女王登基60周年而特别推出了一组普通邮票。这组女王登基60周年小型张邮票于今天发行，采用的肖像曾经多次出现在邮票和钱币上，而这次发行的邮票是第一次把这些肖像都集合在了一起。

'The Queen’s image is one of the most recognisable in the world. This Diamond Jubilee Miniature Sheet is the second of three stamp issues in 2012 celebrating the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. The first was The House of Windsor and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha issued last week, which featured a 1954 portrait of the Queen.

女王的肖像是世界上辨识度最高的肖像之一。女王登基60周年小型张邮票是2012年计划发行的三组庆祝女王登基的邮票中的第二组。第一组邮票已于上周由温莎堡发行，使用的是女王1954年的肖像。

英国伦敦警察厅为啥要叫“苏格兰场”？看过福尔摩斯小说、电视的童鞋对“苏格兰场”这个名字一定不会陌生，大侦探福尔摩斯的警察朋友就是为苏格兰场效力的。所以，苏格兰场就是英国首都伦敦的警察厅！那么，为什么伦敦的警察厅要叫“苏格兰场”呢？这与苏格兰有什么关系？

Scotland Yard is a metonym for the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service of the British capital, London. The Metropolitan Police Service is responsible for law enforcement within Greater London, excluding the square mile of the City of London, which is covered by the City of London Police. It derives from the location of the original Metropolitan Police headquarters at 4 Whitehall Place, which had a rear entrance on a street called Great Scotland Yard. The Scotland Yard entrance became the public entrance to the police station. Over time, the street and the Metropolitan Police became synonymous. The Metropolitan Police moved away from Scotland Yard in 1890, and the name "New Scotland Yard" was adopted for the new headquarters. 苏格兰场是对英国首都伦敦警察厅总部的代称。苏格兰场负责维持包括整个大伦敦地区的公共治安及交通秩序，但伦敦市除外，该区的警务由伦敦市警察管辖。“苏格兰场”的得名，源于警察厅的旧址白厅广场4号。据说，当时警察厅在此处设有一扇后门，正对着一处名为“大苏格兰场”的地方（小编注：Great Scotland Yard，该处可能是苏格兰和英格兰合并组成联合王国之前，苏格兰国王访问英格兰时使用的宫殿或苏格兰王国驻英格兰大使使用的宫殿）。此后，这扇门就成了警察厅的公共入口。久而久之，“苏格兰场”就成了伦敦警察厅的代名词。1890年，警察厅搬离苏格兰场地区，现在所说的“新苏格兰场”也就是对警察厅新总部的别称。

Scotland Yard has become internationally famous as a symbol of policing, and detectives from Scotland Yard feature in many works of crime fiction. They were frequent allies, and sometimes antagonists, of Sherlock Holmes in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous stories. It is also referred to in Around the World in Eighty Days. In the James Bond novels and short stories, Assistant Commissioner Sir Ronald Vallance is a recurring fictional character who works for Scotland Yard. 作为警察的代名词，苏格兰场出现在许多侦探探案类小说中，由此而蜚声国际。在柯南-道尔的小说中，苏格兰场的警察们与大侦探福尔摩斯的关系也是亦敌亦友。苏格兰场在小说《环游世界80天》中也有出现。在邦德系列小说中，助理局长罗尼-瓦蓝斯多次出场，他也是为苏格兰场效力的。