2010年冬奥会将在加拿大西部港口城市温哥华举行。12日，当地举行了此次冬奥会倒计时钟的启动仪式。这座高达20英尺的倒计时钟由钢材，树脂玻璃和红香杉等材料制作而成，它将成为温哥华的新地标，并将永远留在温哥华艺术馆门前。

B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell (left) shakes hands with Stephen Urquhart president of Omega as dignitaries look on during unveiling of the Vancouver 2010 Countdown Clock in Vancouver.

A giant countdown clock was unveiled Monday in Canada's pacific port city of Vancouver to mark the three-year countdown to the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.

"This clock that we unveiled today will remind us not just of the years, the months and the weeks until we actually light that torch, but it will remind us of how incredibly intense this competition is," said Gordon Campbell, Premier of the British Columbia province, at the clock ceremony at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

The clock, which measures 20-feet high, will count down the remaining days, hours, minutes and seconds to the Opening Ceremonies of the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
The clock was built by EEC Industries of North Vancouver, with three massive columns of steel, Plexiglas and red cedar. Vancouver's Karacters Design Group came up with the concept.

The Countdown Clock will be permanently located on the Georgia Street Plaza of the Vancouver Art Gallery, said Vancouver Organizing Committee CEO John Furlong.

Vocabulary:

countdown clock: 倒计时钟

Plexiglas: 树脂玻璃

red cedar: 红香杉（香杉具有浓重的香味，心材的颜色从深红棕色至粉色，各不相同。在重要商用材中, 红香杉是重量最轻的树种之一）


（北京林业大学通讯员 林宇投稿）



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