We are told this flame represents the "Olympic spirit," a spirit that burns strongest in the heart of the Olympic athlete.

我们认为奥林匹克火焰代表了“奥林匹克精神”，这种精神在奥林匹克参赛选手心中熊熊燃烧。

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Need I, indeed, tell you of the way this flame spreads its feelers, and delicately darts and hovers in the darkness, conjuring things from nothing?

需要我来真切地告诉你们，这个火焰是如何散播它的触角、在黑暗中优美地疾走盘旋、使事物从无到有的吗？

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"This is quite different from blowing air on the flame," Cademartiri said. "When you blow on the flame, you generate flow outside the flame and you push air into this flame."

“这和向火焰上吹空气非常不同”Cademartiri说，“向火焰上吹气时，是在火焰外部产生气流并将空气推入火焰中。”

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"The flame from the jug of water was this high," "and that's what my kids and our family have been drinking."

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II Only thin smoke without flame ; From the heaps of couch-grass; Yet this will go onward the same Though Dynasties pass.

只有没有火焰的烟,从茅草堆中冒出;,然而这还是会照样向前,即使朝代更迭。

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"You come all this way to see the Olympic flame and they don't let you within 100 feet of it,"

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To know that this flame will spread this way across the door and up across the ceiling.

NEWYORKER: Trial by Fire

If one person deserves the credit for keeping this flame flickering when it was about to go out, many people would nominate Jean-Claude Biver, albeit reluctantly.

FORBES: Time Is Money

Mr Rogge said that like the messengers in ancient times who shared news of the Olympic truce - the laying down of arms for the Games - "the torchbearers who carry this flame to London will spread the message of sport's capacity to promote peace and to make our world a better place".

BBC: London 2012: Olympic Games flame lit in Greece