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第十节： Where can you look if you want to know how tall the tallest person in the world is, or who the oldest person in the world is? There is only one place where you’ll find all these information, and that’s in the Guinness Book of World Records. This morning we have someone from the Guinness Company that produced that famous book, Thomas Manning. “Welcome to the program, Thomas!” “Thanks, Sue. It’s a pleasure to be here.” “Perhaps you could start by telling us where the idea for the book came from.” “Well, it was first suggested in the early 1950s. Sir Hugh Beaver, the managing director of Guinness, was out shooting birds with some friends. A bird flew away so quickly that no one was able to shoot it. Sir Hugh wondered whether this bird was the fastest bird in Europe, and if it wasn’t the fastest, he wondered what was.” “So I suppose he went to the nearest library to look for the information and he couldn’t find it?” “Yes, that’s exactly what happened. And this made Sir Hugh think there must be other people in the same situation who wanted this kind of information. He thought that, like himself, people would be interested in finding facts of all records to satisfy their curiosity.” “So the idea for a book of records was born. And when did the first book come out?”“A few years later, in 1955. So, to ask your first question: the tallest person in the world is 231.7cm tall. And the oldest person is Jeanne. L. Calment, who was born in February, 1875.” “There are also some rather strange records, aren’t there, Thomas?” “Yes ,that’s right. Did you know, Sue, that the shortest time it is taken …” n. 英国产强性黑啤酒的一种 [人名] [爱尔兰姓氏] 吉尼斯 McGuinness的变体 According to Guinness, Furman has set 70 similarly quirky firsts. Guinness 《吉尼斯世界纪录大全》的产生与啤酒有关。1759年，一位叫吉尼斯的爱尔兰人在都柏林开办了一家啤酒作坊，生产的啤酒名为吉尼斯啤酒。经过200多年的努力，吉尼斯啤酒行销世界100多国家和地区，吉尼斯由此出名。据说，当时人们在吉尼斯公司饮酒时，常常一边喝酒，一边争论世界上什么最大、最小、最重、最轻等问题。公司老板为了招来顾客，印了一些小册子来回答这些问题。日积月累就成了《吉尼斯世界纪录大全》的雏形。 Guinness Guinness Guinness Guinness Guinness Guinness “So I su