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有报告显示，伦敦著名的大本钟加速倾斜，甚至有倒塌的可能性。根据该报告，大本钟向左倾斜约46厘米，已经达到肉眼可以观察的程度。不过，有专家乐观地表示，以大本钟目前的倾斜速度，要再过1万年才会有危险。大本钟坐落于英国议会大厦东侧高96米的钟楼上，是伦敦的传统地标。 The landmark clock tower containing Big Ben at Britain's Palace of Westminster, is tilting, while media reports Monday said the mother of all parliaments was slipping into the River Thames, raising fears over its future. The House of Commons commission, which is responsible for the upkeep of the 19th century neo-Gothic parliamentary estate popular with tourist photographs, was due to meet Monday. Media reports said it would discuss a surveyor's report which could recommend lawmakers move out for repairs costing up to one billion pounds, while the Daily Telegraph said another proposal might be to sell to Russian or Chinese developers for about 500 million pounds ($779.7 million). But a commission spokesman said there was no surveyor's report, and members were only meeting to discuss setting up a group to look at general long-term renovation of the grade 1-listed building designed by Charles Barry and Augustus Welby Pugin. "I think there's been twos and twos added together and come up with we are selling to the Russians, but they won't be talking about anything like that," the spokesman said. | 
