town on the south bank of the Thames adjoining London, Old English Gronewic (918), Grenewic (964), literally "green harbor" or "green trading place." The Royal Observatory there was founded June 22, 1675, by King Charles II specifically to solve the problem of finding longitude while at sea. In October 1884, 41 delegates from 25 nations met in Washington, D.C., for the International Meridian Conference. They decided to adopt a single world meridian, passing through the principal Transit Instrument at the observatory at Greenwich, as the basis of calculation for all longitude and a worldwide 24-hour clock. The Greenwich motion passed 22-1; San Domingo voted against it; France and Brazil abstained. The Greenwich Village quarter of New York City has been symbolic of "American bohemia" at least since 1903.
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1. Its headquarters will soon be relocated from Westminster to the Greenwich site.
其总部很快将从威斯敏斯特迁往格林尼治。
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2. He decided to cut across the Heath, through Greenwich Park.
他决定抄近路走格林尼治公园穿过希思区。
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3. Jack was a folk hero in the Greenwich Village bars.
在格林尼治村的酒吧里杰克是人们心目中的英雄。
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4. By age 16 he was playing professionally with bands in Greenwich Village.
16岁的时候,他就为格林尼治村的乐队进行专业演奏.
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5. The Royal Greenwich Observatory was founded to observe and catalogue the stars.
