During our stay in London, we visited Buckingham Place.
我们在伦敦逗留期间参观了白金汉宫。
His bad English is a bar to his getting a job.
他的英语很差,这是他找工作的一个障碍。
Considering how recent these developments are, it is even more remarkable that as long ago as the 1960s, an Englishman, Leon Bagrit, was able to predict some of the uses of computers which we know today.