the British Library
/ðə ˌbrɪtɪʃ ˈlaɪbrəri/, /ðə ˌbrɪtɪʃ ˈlaɪbri/
/ðə ˌbrɪtɪʃ ˈlaɪbreri/
- the national library of Britain and the most important of the copyright libraries. It used to be part of the British Museum but in the 1990s a new library was built near St Pancras station in London. It is built in the shape of a ship. Although it is much larger than the old library, it is still not big enough for all the books and documents that need to be kept. The newspaper collection is in North London and there is another reading room at Boston Spa in the north of England. It also contains a large collection of digital material, including sound recordings.
大英图书馆：英国国家图书馆，也是最重要的版权图书馆。它曾经是大英博物馆的一部分，但在1990年代，伦敦圣潘克拉斯车站附近建立了一个新图书馆。它以船的形状建造。尽管它比旧图书馆要大得多，但仍然不足以容纳所有需要保留的书籍和文档。该报刊集位于伦敦北部，在英格兰北部的波士顿温泉有另一个阅览室。它还包含大量数字资料，包括录音。