七大工业奇迹（2003）

Seven Wonders of the Industrial World S01E01

Part 1 May 23, 2022, 9:42 a.m.

各位先生请看
我们终于要开始打造远洋巨轮了
Here we are gentlemen, we are at last able
to commence work on The Great Eastern
这个故事叙述一艘
世上前所未见的伟大船只
This is the true story of the greatest
ship the world had ever seen
远洋巨轮
The Great Eastern
我将它视为硕大的桥梁
I have conceived her as a giant bridge
造船者为了它倾家荡产
而且身败名裂
A ship that bankrupted and
ruined the men who built her
我这辈子从来没有
就这么严苛的预算造船
I mean I’ve never built ships under
such punitive financial arrangements
它将许多人提早送上黄泉路
Sending many to an early grave
远洋巨轮是天才工程师
The Great Eastern was
the final engineering triumph of
伊森巴-金敦-布鲁奈尔的遗世巨作
that most brilliant of engineers
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
他为这座庞然大物鞠躬尽瘁
A monstrous creation
that would consume him
远洋巨轮
七大工程奇迹
本节目改编自真实事件
演员台词取材自当时纪录
1852年，布鲁奈尔与私人助理威廉杰肯
1852, Brunel and his personal assistant
在伦敦为远洋巨轮筹募经费
William Jacomb are in London trying
to raise finance for The Great Eastern
我有个想法，我要造一艘船
它将遨游五湖四海
I had the idea to build a ship
that could circumnavigate the globe
体积够大
可以携带全程所需的燃料
and be big enough to carry coal
for the entire journey
这肯定会是一项惊世之作
A project of these ambitions
is bound to raise eyebrows
希望如此，这是我们的目标
Oh I’d hope so, that's the general idea
如果无法引起震撼
我会失望
I would be very disappointed
if they didn't
我的船将是
世上最庞大的人造移♥动♥物体
My ship will be the largest moving man
made object ever built
一座浮城
是目前航行海上的船只的5倍大
A floating city, five times the size of
any vessel that has sailed the ocean
船上可以容纳1万5千吨♥的煤
She will carry
fifteen thousand tonnes of coal
需要200名司炉
it will require two hundred stokers
日以继夜的照顾这庞大的蒸汽机
working around the clock
to feed her immense steam engine
这些蒸汽机高度超过4层楼
These engines will be higher
than a four storey house
它们制♥造♥出的动力
将会超过8千匹马力
and will harness the power equivalent
of over eight thousand horses
这艘船将提供顶级豪华的享受
I have designed her to provide
the ultimate in luxury
其它船只可以载4百名乘客
它却可以容纳4千名
Other ships can carry four hundred
passengers, she will carry four thousand
我要它成为工程史上的经典之作
一栋海上水晶宫
I want her to be the engineering marvel of
the world, a Crystal Palace of the sea
我们伟大帝国的最佳代表
虽然造价高昂
A fitting symbol for our mighty empire.
Though it will be expensive, yes…
是，这一点无庸置疑
但是我总是发现
…there's no doubt about that,
but um I’ve always found the
最聪明与安全的计划
the wisest and safest plans
go straight in the direction
就是朝着自己相信的方向勇往前进
计划无所畏惧，而且决不妥协
that you believe to be right,
and to plan without fear or compromise
许多人认为布鲁奈尔的想法
超出了当时人类与机械的极限
But many say Brunel's vision goes beyond
what either man or machine can achieve
我们向东方航运公♥司♥提出企划案
We've put this project to
The Eastern Steam Navigation Company
然后现在正在等待回音
and er we're waiting for their response
你看看
Look at this
布鲁奈尔希望东方航运能够赞助造船
Brunel hopes Eastern Steam
will finance his great ship
各位…，请问我们还要考虑多久？
Gentlemen, gentlemen
how much deliberation do we need?
大家热烈讨论这艘船是否浮得起来
But heated arguments
对这项计划造成严重威胁
about whether she will even float
are threatening the project
我不打算再待下去了
Sir I’m not prepared to stay here and…
这个计划根本不切实际
是不可能建造的
The entire project is a fantasy,
it could never be built
如此庞大的重量一定会沉下去
还有我的钱也完蛋
and if it were under that enormous weight
it would sink, and with it my money
这个人真有把握
How does the man know
或许这艘船一碰上暴风雨
就立刻溃不成军
that the ship won't snap like a twig
at the first sign of a storm?
这艘船就跟布鲁奈尔先生的梦想一样
And the size of the ship
大而无当
is matched only by the size of
Mr. Brunel's opinion of himself
六位经理走了出去
Six directors walk out
他们不愿意冒险让投资
They don't want to risk financial ruin
也毁了布鲁奈尔伟大计划的投资人
the fate of many who invested
in Brunel's grand designs
布鲁奈尔相当具有名望
但是在金融界却不受欢迎
Brunel is famous with the public
but he is not popular with financiers
他被人称为工程界的拿破仑
He is described
as the Napoleon of Engineers
名声摆中间，利益放两旁
Thinking more of glory than profit
然而引领现代工业风♥骚♥的人
Yet if one man can be said to have created
the modern industrial world
非布鲁奈尔莫属
that man is Brunel
他的远见与设计引爆一场革命
His visions and designs
ignite a revolution
让世人首次认识何谓全球运输系统
that gives the world
its first global transport system
他的铁路以极快的速度
减少人们旅行的时间
His railways compress time transporting
people at unimaginable speeds
他的桥梁以创新想象
His bridges are radical
in their innovation
连接前所未见的距离
spanning distances never before achieved
布鲁奈尔造的船航行于大西洋
Brunel's ships crisscross the Atlantic
他为英国打造第一艘铁制蒸汽船
With The Great Britain
他的设计现代
及赋有未来感
the first all iron steam ship,
his designs look modern, futuristic
这位世上最具前瞻性的工程师
一天要抽40根雪茄
The most radical engineer the world
has ever seen smoked forty cigars a day
只睡4小时，依然精神奕奕
and thrives on just four hours sleep
布鲁奈尔苦于一种无法根治的肾病
But Brunel is suffering from
an incurable kidney disease
他还怕毕生最大挑战
因此功败垂成
that he fears will cheat him
of his greatest challenge
这是我事业生涯最大的技术挑战
This is the greatest technical
challenge of my career
跟其它工程比起来
I have never embarked upon any one thing
to which I’m devoting so much time
我为它投♥注♥了最多的时间与心血
thought and labour
我以自己的名声
赌这项工程会成功
And on the success of which
I am staking so much reputation
我到了这个年纪
也希望留下传世之作
At, at my age you do consider
your legacy to the world
我要它成为我的墓志铭
I want this to be a fitting epitaph
布鲁奈尔的提议
在这一天被通过了
Brunel's proposal carries the day, just
其余的经理赌这一回
他的船可以让大家致富
The remaining directors gambled that maybe
this time his ship will make them rich
我们争辩不休
确实有人持反对意见
We've had a very heated debate,
and yes there are detractors
但是他们却寡不敌众
but they're outnumbered
I’m pleased to say by those
因为只要有布鲁奈尔背书
who will be proud to be
associated with any project
愿意投资的人实在太多了
with the name Brunel stamped on it
各位先生请注意
Here we are gentlemen
两件无价的瓷像安全的收藏起来
two priceless porcelain figurines
packed for safe storage
煤炭的储放库
And stores for the coal
布鲁奈尔先生的精彩创意
Another great idea from Mr. Brunel
这艘船进入设计作业阶段
The ship enters the design phase
布鲁奈尔监督所有细节
Brunel supervises
every detail of the work
他挑选英国最有才气的海事工程师
he has chosen Britain's
most brilliant marine engineer