倫敦奧運慶典遭尷尬 倒計時鐘突停擺
London Olympic organisers were left red-faced on Tuesday when a huge clock in Trafalgar Square marking the countdown to the 2012 Games stopped just hours after being unveiled at a glitzy ceremony。
倫敦本週二舉辦了2012年奧運倒計時鐘揭幕儀式，而僅在數小時後，矗立在特拉法加廣場的巨型倒計時鐘意外停擺。
The steel digital clock measuring 6.5 metres tall and five metres long froze with 500 days, 7 hours, 6 minutes and 56 seconds to go before the start of the Games。
這座高6.5米，寬5米的數字顯示式時鐘由鋼材料製成，一剎那停止在奧運倒計時第500天7小時6分56秒。
"We are obviously very disappointed that the clock has suffered this technical issue," a spokesman for Swiss watchmakers Omega said in a statement。
倒計時鐘製造商、瑞士歐米茄公司的發言人發表聲明稱：“倒計時鐘停擺，我們感到很失望。”
However, a LOCOG spokeswoman laughed off the malfunction, adding "it is not our clock."
但倫敦奧組委的一位女發言人卻對這個故障一笑置之，補充說：“它不是我們的鐘表。”
"We are currently looking into why this happened and expect to have the clock functioning as normal as soon as possible," a spokesman added。
一位發言人補充說：“我們正在調查故障原因，希望它能儘快正常工作。”
Omega said the clock, with its unique design for 2012, had been developed by experts and fully tested ahead of its launch。
歐米茄公司稱，這座倒計時鐘專爲2012年倫敦奧運設計，經過了頂級專業設計師的量身定做，在揭幕前已進行全面檢測。
