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The Eagle Pub
老鷹酒吧
Originally opened in 1667 as the “Eagle and Child”，The Eagle pub is one of Cambridge's most popular drinking establishments and one with an impressive historical legacy. It can be found on Benet Street, just to the South of the Senate House at the heart of Cambridge. It’s one of the larger pubs in the city with access to a beautiful beer garden and serves a number of domestic beers and international wines.
1667年開放,原名為“老鷹和孩子”的老鷹酒吧是劍橋大學最受歡迎的酒吧之一， 此外，它還擁有另人難忘的歷史遺產。老鷹酒吧位于本尼特街，即在劍橋大學中心的議事大樓南側，它有一個漂亮的花園，供顧客喝啤酒，還提供許多英國國產啤酒和世界各地的名酒，是劍橋市規模較大的酒吧之一。
The Eagle is famous for housing the so-called RAF bar, named as such because the pub was popular during the Second World War with local RAF and American Air personnel. A permanent and moving reminder of those momentous days has been left here in the form of some unusual yet historic graffiti. It became custom for the pilots to bum their names, squadron numbers and messages to loved ones into the ceiling and walls of the pub using candles whilst standing on the shoulders of their fellow airmen! It’s impossible to imagine any landlord today allowing this form of risky vandalism but it demonstrates that at that time these men were seen very much as heroes. These poignant signatures can still be seen today and one remembers that many of the scribes never returned home from their combat missions.
老鷹酒吧以擁有英國皇家空軍吧臺而聞名。這樣命名吧臺的原因是因為在二戰期間，駐扎在當地的英國皇家空軍和美國空軍都很喜歡這家酒吧。二戰時,人們并肩作戰，共抗敵軍，那些歲月給人們留下了永恒而又感人的回憶，人們用涂鴉——一種不太尋常卻極富歷史意義的方式把回憶保存了下來。飛行員們騎在他們同伴的肩膀上，用蠟燭把他們的名字、部隊番號和信息燒制到酒吧的天花板和墻壁上，獻給他們所愛的人己經成了一種風俗。很難想象今天有哪個店主能允許這種恣意破壞公物的冒險行為， 但是這恰恰說明了在那個時代，飛行員是被視作英雄的。今天人們仍可看到那些令人心酸的“簽名”，有人還記得，許多“簽上”名字的飛行員在執行戰斗任務后就再也沒有回來。
The pub is now owned by Corpus Christi College and is popular amongst its students and fellows. As well as the college, the world famous Cavendish Laboratory was also a past neighbor of the Eagle before it moved to its current location on JJ Thomson Avenue. As a result the pub was often frequented by the researchers of the lab. Two such scientists were Francis Crick and James Watson. It was at the Eagle at lunchtime on 28th February 1953， that Crick and Watson proudly announced they’d discovered the “secret of life” having unraveled the mystery of DNA and its double helix structure. Quite a lunch it must have been for the patrons that afternoon! The event is commemorated on a plaque next to the entrance and accounted in Watson’s book, “The Double Helix”，
老鷹酒吧現在隸屬于劍橋大學圣體學院，很受學生和教職工歡迎。和圣體學院一樣，世界知名的卡文迪什實驗室在搬去現址JJ.湯姆生大道之前也是老鷹酒吧的鄰居。所以在過去，老鷹酒吧里經常擠滿了實驗室的研究人員。其中包括這樣兩位科學家：弗朗西斯克里克和詹姆斯沃森。1953年2月28號的午餐時間，克里克和沃森在老鷹酒吧自豪地宣布他們發現了“生命的秘密”，他們解開了DNA及其雙螺旋結構的奧秘。那天中午的午餐對于酒吧里的顧客來說是多么美妙的一頓午餐啊！這件事被記錄在酒吧入口旁的一塊牌匾上，沃森的著作《雙螺旋》中也有記載。
A drink in the Eagle is a chance to step into history.
在老鷹酒吧淺酌一杯就有一次涉足歷史的機會。
