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進入中英對照讀新聞／Lego hobbyist spent 2 years building model of stadium 樂高積木愛好者花兩年打造體育場模型
◎張沛元
The dome of the rotunda, the Script Ohio looping across the scoreboard video screen, the archways lining the stadium that is shaped, of course, like a horseshoe.
這座圓形建築的圓頂，體育場看台上的一圈穿過計分板螢幕的Ｏ字型，還有沿著這座體育場邊緣的拱門造型，當然，是馬蹄形的。
In near-exact detail, Paul Janssen created all the curves of Ohio Stadium using 1 million Legos - which, if you remember, are mostly rectangular.
保羅．簡森使用100萬片樂高積木，打造出幾乎分毫不差的俄亥俄州立大學體育場的樣貌——別忘了，樂高積木絕大部分是長方形的。
The building is "not square at all, so it was a big challenge," he said. "But it’s so much more satisfying if you can accomplish something that’s hard."
這座建築「完全不是四四方方的，所以（拿樂高積木來打造）是一大挑戰」，他說。「但要是能完成像這樣困難的東西，那種滿足感則多更多。」
Janssen recently finished his 8-foot-by-6-foot masterpiece, having spent 1,000 hours over nearly two years building it in his Dublin basement. No cutting, gluing or painting was involved in making the replica, the scale of which is about 1/100.
簡森日前完成這個8呎乘以6呎的鉅作，他近2年來花了1000個小時在位於都柏林的自宅地下室埋頭苦幹。打造這座以1比100比例縮小的體育場複製品的過程中，完全沒有切割、粘膠或上色。
The 42-year-old began plotting his work in 2005, three years after he was hired as an associate professor of physiology and cell biology at Ohio State University.
這名42歲的樂高積木玩家是在2005年，也就是他獲聘為俄亥俄州立大學的生理學與細胞生物學副教授的3年後，開始策劃打造體育場模型。
新聞辭典
hobbyist：名詞，追求某種嗜好的人。
horseshoe：名詞，馬蹄。例句：Niagara Falls is composed of two major sections separated by Goat Island：the Horseshoe Falls and the American Falls.（尼加拉瀑布是由被山羊島分為馬蹄瀑布與美國瀑布的這兩大部分所組成。）
replica：名詞，複製品。例句：There are an array of historical displays in this museum, including a World War I fighter plane replica.（這座博物館裡有不少歷史展示品，包括一架一次大戰戰機的複製品。）
