英語短文：此"聲"可待成追憶
An old widow's wish to hear her late husband's voice again has prompted London's subway system to restore a 40-year-old recording of the subway's famous "mind the gap" announcement.
為了滿足一位孀居老太太渴望聽到她已故丈夫聲音的愿望，倫敦地鐵系統(tǒng)準備再次啟用一段“小心空隙”的提示音廣播。這段有名的提示音已有40年的歷史。
McCollum, 65, used to frequently visit a subway station or plan her journeys around the stop to listen to her husband Lawrence's voice, even before his death in 2007.
這位老太太名叫麥考倫，今年65歲。她過去經(jīng)常來到一個地鐵站，或是刻意途徑此站，只為聽到丈夫勞倫斯的聲音，甚至在他2007年去世之前她就經(jīng)常這么做了。
Lawrence was a drama school graduate when he auditioned for the underground recording, she recalled. "After he died, I would stay on the platform. I would just sit and listen to it again," she added. "It was a huge comfort. It was very special."
麥考倫回憶說，勞倫斯參加這段地鐵錄音的面試時才剛從戲劇學校畢業(yè)。“他過世之后，我會待在站臺上，靜靜坐著，一遍遍地聽著錄音，”她補充道。“這是一種莫大的安慰，很特別。”
McCollum was taken aback last November when she noticed Lawrence’s voice had been replaced by a different voice. When she approached an underground worker, she was told the station had a new broadcast system and it could not use the old recording anymore.
去年11月，麥考倫發(fā)現(xiàn)勞倫斯的聲音被一個不同的聲音代替時很吃驚。她找到一位地鐵工作人員問問情況，結(jié)果被告知地鐵站有了新的廣播系統(tǒng)，不會再用原來的錄音了。
But the staff was so moved by McCollum's story that they dug up the recording and gave the widow a copy of the announcement on a CD. The staff is now working to restore Lawrence's announcement at the station.
但是，地鐵工作人員被麥考倫的故事深深打動了，因此他們翻出了舊版錄音，給了她一張CD，上面拷貝了這段錄音。如今，他們也在盡量爭取在地鐵站里重新播出勞倫斯的錄音。
McCollum has been overwhelmed by the media attention to her story, and hoped that she could hear Lawrence's voice in the station again soon. She said, "Lawrence was a great London transport user all his life. He would be amused and touched and delighted to know he's back where he belonged."
媒體對麥考倫的故事的關注令她非常感動，她也希望能盡快聽到勞倫斯的聲音在地鐵站再次響起。她說：“勞倫斯生前會很頻繁地搭乘倫敦交通。如果知道自己回到了屬于他的地方，他肯定會感到愉快、感動和興奮。”
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