第1904期:Torch Will Bring its Light to the 2024 Olympics

Olympic Games organizers in France presented the 2024 Olympic torch that will light the Summer Games in the country a year from now. In the Olympic torch tradition, many people carry the torch in turn from Greece to the current location of the Games. After it has traveled thousands of kilometers, the torch will light the Olympic cauldron at the Opening Ceremony of the next Olympic Games.法国奥运会组织者赠送了 2024 年奥运会火炬，该火炬将在一年后照亮该国的夏季奥运会。 按照奥运火炬传递的传统，许多人依次将火炬从希腊传递到目前的奥运会举办地。 火炬经过数千公里后，将在下一届奥运会开幕式上点燃圣火台。French designer Mathieu Lehanneur created the torch, which is 70 centimeters long and made of lightweight steel. Lehanneur said its shape is inspired by the famous Seine river, which flows through Paris. He said the torch is equal from top to bottom and all around the middle, which stands for equality between athletes. The twisting shape of the torch represents peace.法国设计师Mathieu Lehanneur创造了这支火炬，它长70厘米，由轻质钢制成。 勒汉尼尔说，它的形状灵感来自流经巴黎的著名塞纳河。 他说，火炬从上到下、中间都是平等的，这代表了运动员之间的平等。 火炬的扭曲形状代表着和平。The torch was made with lightweight steel. Its lower half copies the movement of the Seine, along which the opening ceremony will take place for over 500,000 viewers.火炬由轻质钢制成。 它的下半部分模仿了塞纳河的流动，开幕式将沿着塞纳河举行，届时将有超过 500,000 名观众。Lehanneur said he wants the torch to represent the kind of event that Paris 2024 hopes to be. “I wanted to move away from the torch appearing as an object of conquest,” Lehanneur said.勒汉尼尔表示，他希望火炬能代表 2024 年巴黎奥运会所希望的那种活动。 “我不想把火炬当作征服的对象，”勒汉尼尔说。He also told reporters that designing the torch was much more technical than he thought it would be. “The magic is not the torch itself, but the flame,” Lehanneur said.他还告诉记者，设计火炬的技术含量比他想象的要高得多。 “魔法不是火炬本身，而是火焰，”勒汉尼尔说。The torch will begin burning in Olympia, Greece, where the first Olympics were held, on April 16. The Games will begin in Paris on July 26, 2024.圣火将于 4 月 16 日在首届奥运会举办地希腊奥林匹亚开始燃烧。奥运会将于 2024 年 7 月 26 日在巴黎开幕。On May 8, the torch will arrive in the Mediterranean city of Marseille. It will then pass through several important places, which include Strasbourg, the Pantheon in Paris, the Mont Saint-Michel and multiple French territories.5月8日，火炬将抵达地中海城市马赛。 随后将经过几个重要地点，包括斯特拉斯堡、巴黎万神殿、圣米歇尔山和多个法国领土。Tony Estanguet, the Paris 2024 chief, said the torch is “very, very beautiful.” He also said it is “…very pure. It’s perfectly balanced in the hand.”2024 年巴黎奥运会主席托尼·埃斯坦格特 (Tony Estanguet) 表示，火炬“非常非常漂亮”。 他还说它“……非常纯净。 拿在手里完美平衡。”