荷蘭要用二千七百億英鎊建假山

荷蘭要用二千七百億英鎊建假山
Dutch to build £270bn fake mountain
Sep 01 04:48PM
Translation by Autumnson Blog

The Netherlands is to spend thirty years and as much as £270 billion building a fake mountain to help the famously flat country become a winter sport superpower.
荷蘭將會花三十年及高達 2,700億英鎊建造一座假山，以幫助該著名的平原國家成為一個冬季運動的超級大國。
The idea came from a Dutch sports journalist called Thijs Zonneveld, who suggested in a tongue-in-cheek article that a man-made mountain should be built to help overcome the lack of decent hills in his homeland.
想法來自一位荷蘭體育記者名為 Thijs Zonneveld，他在文章提議一座人造山應被建造，以幫助克服在他的家國缺乏一座像樣的山。
But his cheeky suggestion was taken seriously by Dutch architects' firm Hoffers and Kruger, who drew up plans for a 7,000ft mountain - that's twice the height of Snowdon, and far bigger than 4,409ft Ben Nevis.
但他的隨口說建議被荷蘭建築師事務所 Hoffers和克魯格認真對待，他們為7,000英尺高山制定計劃 - 那是斯諾登的兩倍高度，及遠遠大於4,409英尺的本尼維斯山。
The plans caught the imagination of the Dutch, and quickly received backing from the Dutch Ski Association, Dutch Climbing and Mountaineering Association and Royal Dutch Cycling Union.
該計劃引起荷蘭人的幻想，並迅速獲得荷蘭滑雪協會、荷蘭登山協會和皇家荷蘭自行車聯盟的支持。
Now, local authorities and several major corporations are getting involved in the idea, with sponsorship deals on the horizon that could help start the far-fetched plan on the road to fruition - and the man who had the original idea is delighted.

"This plan is serious," insisted Zoneeveld. "All kinds of big companies have now stepped in, various municipalities and investors are interested."

The project is provisionally named "Die Berg Komt Er", or "The Mountain Comes", presumably in a reference to the phrase, "bring the mountain to Mohammed".

A working group has already been set up to look further at the feasibility of the project, which is projected to cost anywhere between £40bn and £270bn and take up to 30 years to build.

The basic plan is to construct a skeleton which would then be covered in organic material using technology which already exists to create a truly living mountain - one which, perhaps even more unbelievably, could be located on land or out at sea.

Even more surprising, perhaps, the hollow mountain could become a city in itself, with houses, shops, arenas and even roads and railways within.

And while the mountain will eventually be used for power production, housing and water supply, Zonneveld insists that it is the love of sport which will make it happen.

"Sport is perhaps the main reason why there is so much attention for this mountain," he said. "Sport captures the imagination."

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/world-of-sport/article/66194/