奥运风云：奥运会会徽
Many cities throughout the world try to bring the Olympic Games to their city. One of the first things a winning city produces is an emblem to represent the Olympic Games and their city.
世界上很多城市都想把奥运会带到他们那里。一个申办奥运会成功的城市最先要做的事情就是设计出代表他们城市的会徽来。
An Olympic emblem is the design combining the Olympic rings together with other distinctive elements.
奥运会会徽是结合了奥林匹克五环与其他元素的产物。
Each National Olympic Committee and Olympic host city has the right to create their own emblem. And the design of any Olympic emblem shall be submitted to the IOC Executive Board for its approval.
每一个国家的奥委会和奥运会承办城市都有权设计他们自己的会徽。所有奥运会会徽的设计都必须提交国际奥委会执委会以取得其批准。
The emblem of the 2004 Athens Olympic Games is an interwined olive wreath. In Greece, the olive wreath is a symbol with special meanings in terms of its history, shape and color.
2004年雅典奥运会会徽是一个用橄榄枝编织的花环。在雅典，橄榄枝花环是一个象征，它在历史、形状和颜色方面都蕴含着特殊的含义。
The olive wreath was the only one official award for ancient Olympic champions and was generally acknowledged as the most honorable prize.
橄榄枝花环是授予古代奥运会冠军的唯一奖品，并且一般被认为是代表最高荣誉的奖品。
In addition, olive is the sacred tree of Athens, the symbol of peace.
此外，橄榄也是雅典的圣树，是和平的象征。
The colors of the emblem of the 2004 Athens Olympic Games are white and blue, which symbolize the colors which can be found in the Greek countryside, recalling again the blue skies and seas of the Greek landscape and reminding the colors of the Greek flag.
雅典奥运会会徽的颜色是白色和蓝色，代表希腊乡村的颜色，同时还能让人想起希腊风光中蓝色的天空和大海，以及希腊国旗的颜色。
Just as Gianna Angelopoulos Daskalaki, president of the 2004 Organizing Committee, said "The city of Athens, peace, the wreaths awarded at games, the sky and sea of Greece. They exist as a creation of freedom, honesty and simplicity".
正如雅典奥组委主席安吉洛普洛斯夫人所说：“雅典城、和平、比赛颁发的花环，希腊的天空和海洋，这一切都是自由、真诚和单纯的产物。”
The 2004 Athens emblem signifies heritage, participation, celebration and human scale, which invite the whole world to join in with the greatest peaceful competition ever seen.
雅典奥运会会徽体现了传统、参与、庆典和人类的进步，它邀请整个世界参与到这场人类历史上最和平的比赛中去。
