Taipei Flora Expo
台北花卉博览会

本则影音新闻出处：新唐人电视台英语新闻
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【新闻关键字】
1. pavilion: n. 展馆
2. pipe: v. 吹奏
3. speaker: n. 喇叭
4. leave: n. 树叶
5. approach: v. 接近
6. detect: v. 侦测
7. light up: v.phr. 亮起来
8. showcase: v.展示

The Taipei International Flora Exposition gets underway Saturday.
台北国际花卉博览会在周六开始。

It’s the only exhibition hall without any real flowers.
这里是唯一没有真花的展览馆。

The pavilion displays the latest technologies in Taiwan, with sound and motion sensors that enable digital flowers to interact with visitors.
这座展馆展示台湾最新的科技，运用声音与动作感应器，让数位花朵与参观者互动。

The hall, made to look like a futuristic forest, was decorated with a giant mechanical flower. It moves to music piped through more than 30,000 paper-thin speakers in the shape of leaves.
打造成看起来像一座未来森林的大厅，装饰着一朵巨大的机械花，会随着像纸一样薄、树叶形状的喇叭、所传送出的音乐移动。

Further into the pavilion, 3D flowers bend with the wave of a hand, and florabots dance to music, lighting up when people approach.
再进入展馆内部，当人们一接近时，一挥手3D立体花朵就会随之弯下来，机械花就会随着音乐跳舞。

[Vivian Hou, Asus]: “Humans and nature should be united as one body. When you observe birds in the sky, they have their v-shaped formations, or when you observe fish swimming in groups, you can see that all nature organisms are interdependent. The florabots are also designed into groups, and they can interact with humans so when they detect visitors they will light up.”
华硕公司的Vivian Hau说：“人类与自然应该结合为一体，当你观察天空中的鸟儿，它们有V字的形态，或是当你观察鱼儿成群游泳，你可以看到所有大自然的有机体都是相互依赖的。花械花开也是以群组的方式设计的，它们可与人类互动，所以当它们侦测到访客时，就会亮起来。”

The expo costs more than $395 million. Its 14 exhibition halls and fields of flowers and plants spread over more than 200 acres. They showcase more than 30 million flowers and the latest green technology.
这项博览会花费超过3亿9千5百万元，有14个展馆与花田，占地超过200亩，展示超过3千万朵花与最新的环保科技。

The Taipei City government is expecting 8-million visitors.
台北市政府预期会有800万名参观者。

Taipei is the seventh Asian city to host the international gardening event.
台北是第7座亚洲城市主办此项国际园艺活动。

The 2010 Flora Expo has more than 30 countries participating, such as the Netherlands, Japan, and Greece. It runs through the end of April.
2010年花卉博览会有超过30个国家参与，像是荷兰、日本与希腊。
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本专栏由前卫英语David Lee主编 www.davidlee.url.tw