【BBC女王的宫殿】圣十字架宫3

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        圣十字架宫是王室血腥历史的见证。历史上有名的苏格兰玛丽女王——号称当时最美丽的女人就曾住在城堡塔楼中。玛丽15岁嫁给法国王室，19岁丈夫去世又回到苏格兰，在民众拥戴中登上王位。玛丽女王在叛变中失掉王位并逃往英格兰，囚禁19年后被处死。玛丽女王的秘书在塔楼中被刺56刀而死，现在这里还立着一块指示牌。这就不难理解为什么圣十字架宫会经常传出闹鬼的传闻了。
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        英式拼法，以音频内容为准
The palace house is a rare and fragile object, a miraculous survival through the centuries, an intimate piece of embroidery stitched by Mary herself.
Embroidery was a common pastime then for women of a certain class and Mary was particularly skilled at it, but she chose her designs carefully and imbued them with meaning. So when you look at this, it may seem almost childlike, "A catte," but there were times in her life when she was like the cat, when she was the monarch, the ruler of Scotland, and her subjects were the little mice running around. But by the time she came to stitch this, her fortunes had reversed dramatically. Suddenly she was the mouse, under the watchful glare of the cat.宫内有一件稀罕而脆弱的珍藏，能够保存多个世纪，实在是奇蹟。这是玛丽亲手刺绣的工艺品，刺绣是古代闺秀惯常的消遣。
玛丽的手工特别灵巧，但她精心挑选图案，凭刺绣而寄意。这一幅看起来充满童真，是只猫。但在她一生中，她有时像一只猫。当女皇的日子，臣民就是小老鼠。但到了刺绣时，她的命运已逆转，突然变成猫爪下的小老鼠。