老妈澳新旅游归来，请教各位在澳新的坛友

猫元帅

请问这个事什么来历？


窗户上的字是什么意思？


工党为什么有个纪念碑？


这个是什么树、


前面的玻璃盒子建筑是什么？


是什么鸟？


是叶子楣？


蓝色的是什么花？据说在那里到处都是。


据说是邪教的碑，是个什么故事？


说是尼泊尔人修的庙，为什么啊？


悉尼大学墙上的徽章，是什么意思？


多谢大家。

老妈此行的感慨有三：
一、人真少。

二、中国人真多。

三、A380真好，阿联酋真有钱。

夜观天象

A380，梦想啊。

猫元帅

夜观天象 发表于 2011-10-31 21:13
A380，梦想啊。

阴差阳错搭了一回A380，回来就大骂南航破飞机777。

夜观天象

猫元帅 发表于 2011-10-31 21:19
阴差阳错搭了一回A380，回来就大骂南航破飞机777。

根据目前为止乘机的粗浅经验，A380一出，其他的都是破飞机

非

我只说新西兰的。
2。go all blacks! 这是给新西兰橄榄球队加油的标语，时值橄榄球世界杯，最终新西兰全黑队获得冠军。当时支持All Blacks （队名，因为球队的球服以黑色著称）的标语旗帜到处都是。
3。 看着真象新西兰的一个碑，不确定。
4。不认识。
6。海鸥！

诗韵

非 发表于 2011-11-1 07:08
我只说新西兰的。
2。go all blacks! 这是给新西兰橄榄球队加油的标语，时值橄榄球世界杯，最终新西兰全黑 ...

8。紫薇花
9。摩门教

非

诗韵 发表于 2011-11-1 12:35
8。紫薇花
9。摩门教

原来这个是紫薇花，我一直不知道，还以为紫薇是藤本植物呢。
摩门教这个是新西兰蛤蟆屯的吗？不说我还忘记了，传说是南半球最大的摩门教寺庙。这跟尼泊尔也差得太远了。我还真没去过，可以问问老燕。

楚天碧霭

玻璃房是墨尔本联邦广场上的游客问询中心

猫元帅

诗韵 发表于 2011-11-1 08:35
8。紫薇花
9。摩门教

多谢。摩门教这个吹喇叭的人是个什么典故？

猫元帅

楚天碧霭 发表于 2011-11-2 10:10
玻璃房是墨尔本联邦广场上的游客问询中心

多谢，我以为是地铁站呢。

雪个

非 发表于 2011-11-1 15:13
原来这个是紫薇花，我一直不知道，还以为紫薇是藤本植物呢。
摩门教这个是新西兰蛤蟆屯的吗？不说我还忘 ...

照片里的树不是紫薇，应该是Jacaranda ，中文叫蓝花楹，我们这里也有，很漂亮。

冰蚁

第一个，全诗如下：

I'm old
Botany Bay;
stiff in the joints,
little to say.

I am he
who paved the way,
that you might walk
at your ease to-day;

I was the conscript
sent to hell
to make in the desert
the living well;

I bore the heat,
I blazed the track-
furrowed and bloody
upon my back.


I split the rock;
I felled the tree:
The nation was-
Because of me!

Old Botany Bay
Taking the sun
from day to day...
shame on the mouth
that would deny
the knotted hands
that set us high!


botany bay 是澳洲第一批罪犯移民登陆的地方。整首诗是讲的这批人来到澳洲，开拓澳洲。

冰蚁

第三个是新西兰工党的纪念碑，纪念 Michael Joseph Savage。他提出的高收入、高税收、高福利政策为新西兰搭好了福利性社会的框架。所以他成为一个象征。

冰蚁

顶上有小金人的那个是摩门教的寺庙 temple。小金人是摩门教天使(Angel) Moroni。大部分摩门教寺庙顶上都有一个这个。

冰蚁

尼泊尔人的建筑是88年expo留下来的。这次上海的世博，尼泊尔也修了个象庙的建筑参展。
这个建筑叫Nepal peace pagoda。

wiki里的词条    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepal_Peace_Pagoda

Origins

In 1986, the United Nations International Year of Peace, the Kingdom of Nepal agreed to participate in World Expo '88, and the Association to Preserve Asian Culture was commissioned to create, operate for the Expo, and find a new home for the Pagoda at the Expo's conclusion.

Construction

Immediately, 80 tonnes of indigenous Nepalese timber were sourced from the Terai jungle forest of Nepal, carted across to the capital Kathmandu where 160 Nepalese families worked for two years at crafting its diverse elements. These were then shipped to Australia in two 40-foot containers and one 20-foot container, where they were assembled at the Expo site by a handful of Australian workers under Nepalese supervision. The final assembly for World Expo '88 only took a few days.[2]

During the Expo

Three-levelled, with a beautiful tea house on the second level, and one of the only hand-crafted Pavilions, the Pagoda quickly became one of the most visited and photographed Pavilions at the Expo. Towards the end of the Expo a group of persons called Friends of the Pagoda established a petition to keep the Pagoda in Brisbane after the conclusion of the Expo, with some 70,000 signatories.[3]
Sir Edmund Hillary, the first person to ascent Mount Everest, was VIP Guest to the Pagoda during the Expo on 8 August 1988.

Artistic and Religious Heritage

The Pagoda is one of only three Nepal Peace Pagodas outside of Nepal, the other two being in Munich and Osaka, and is a close copy of Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu, with significant Hindu and Buddhist iconography representing the different Avatars of Shiva, buddhas in different states of meditation, or mudras, the eight auspicious symbols of Buddhism, a sacred statue of Avalokiteshvara, the Buddhist deity of compassion, as well as a Peace Bell, two smaller side Pavilions, a Buddhist stupa, and a Peace Post, with the calling to World Peace in four languages Japanese, French, Spanish and English. Sanskrit prayer chants also feature inscribed on the roof eaves of the two side Pavilions, as well as the inscription for om above the central door.
Whilst not used as a traditional Buddhist or Hindu centre, it is occasionally used for weddings, private functions, book launches and company events, and many visitors can be seen using the Pagoda's internal first level Church pews for personal meditation. South Bank Corporation manages the Pagoda on behalf of the Parklands and the City of Brisbane.[4]

After the Expo

After the Expo, it was work of Friends of the Pagoda, with Brisbane City Council Councillor David Hinchliffe as head, to liaise between government and private donations to keep the Pagoda in Brisbane, and the campaign was a success, largely also due to the last minute concluding successful donation by retirees Mr & Mrs Frank & Myra Pitt.[5] Various ideas were put forward as to where to host the Pagoda, including the Queensland Art Gallery, and Brisbane City Botanic Gardens, with South Bank Parklands the final successful resting place for the Pagoda, at its new riverfront location, where it became part of the parklands opening in June 1992.[6]
Since that time, the Pagoda has been a significant part of one's visit to South Bank, where it still welcomes visitors from all over the world much as it did during World Expo '88.

冰蚁

悉尼大学墙上的，中间那块是校徽。两边的四块也许是各个学院的徽章。

非

冰蚁 发表于 2011-11-3 05:57
第三个是新西兰工党的纪念碑，纪念 Michael Joseph Savage。他提出的高收入、高税收、高福利政策为新西兰搭 ...

哇，冰蚂蚁同学好厉害。还真是。我都没注意过这个纪念碑。。。。主要是我对政党的东西都没有太大兴趣。。。

非

老妈此行的感慨有三：
一、人真少。

二、中国人真多。

三、A380真好，阿联酋真有钱。

有关第二条，我想起个笑话。
几年前我一个深圳的姐姐，为了激发她读初中的女儿学习英语的兴趣和动力，就两人一块去澳洲旅游了一个月。正巧我回国的时候她们也回了，问起这个女儿的旅澳心得，小姑娘嘴一撇：“我觉得吧，我根本就不用学英文。”我一乐，问：“为什么啊？”小姑娘很得意的跟我说：“在澳洲，不管在哪里我都找到人说中文，超市了，公园啊，大街上啊，就连公车站我不知道路的话，一会就能来个中国人给问问。。。。”她妈妈在旁边，听得那叫一个郁闷。

遛猫的老鼠

2 Go All Blacks 是个笔误，当年写文章的记者把All Backs（所有后卫）写成了All Blacks，后来就将错就错把新西兰国家橄榄球队称为All Blacks，全黑队。

3 那个是Savage的纪念公园，实际上是Savage的墓，他的棺木就在那个碑下面埋着。就是你照片里那个小门，从那能看到。Savage的工党赢得了新西兰1935年大选的胜利，奠定了新西兰福利制国家的基础。

奉孝

非 发表于 2011-11-5 18:43
有关第二条，我想起个笑话。
几年前我一个深圳的姐姐，为了激发她读初中的女儿学习英语的兴趣和动力，就 ...

我怀疑有一天澳大利亚对于中国是否相当于巴西对于日本。