伦敦奥运庆典遭尴尬 倒计时钟突停摆

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。

　　伦敦本周二举办了2012年奥运倒计时钟揭幕仪式，而仅在数小时后，矗立在特拉法加广场的巨型倒计时钟意外停摆。

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。

这座高6.5米，宽5米的数字显示式时钟由钢材料制成，一刹那停止在奥运倒计时第500天7小时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。

倒计时钟制造商、瑞士欧米茄公司的发言人发表声明称：“倒计时钟停摆，我们感到很失望。”

However, a LOCOG spokeswoman laughed off the malfunction, adding "it is not our clock."

但伦敦奥组委的一位女发言人却对这个故障一笑置之，补充说：“它不是我们的钟表。”

"We are currently looking into why this happened and expect to have the clock functioning as normal as soon as possible," a spokesman added。

一位发言人补充说：“我们正在调查故障原因，希望它能尽快正常工作。”

Omega said the clock, with its unique design for 2012, had been developed by experts and fully tested ahead of its launch。

欧米茄公司称，这座倒计时钟专为2012年伦敦奥运设计，经过了顶级专业设计师的量身定做，在揭幕前已进行全面检测。