七大工业奇迹（2003）

Seven Wonders of the Industrial World S01E02

Part 4 May 23, 2022, 9:42 a.m.

down the shaft, flooding the caisson.
已经完全熄灭了
The fire has stopped completely,
但是要花几个星期修补损害
这个花费相当惊人
but the damage will take weeks to repair
and the expense will be considerable.
目标就近在眼前
We were so close to our goal.
他们又多花了9个星期
才抵达床岩
It took them nine more weeks
to reach bedrock,
在他们用水泥灌浆之前
but before they could fill the caisson
with concrete a careless mistake
地面上的工人犯了一个无心过失
让压缩空气逸了出来
by some surface workers allowed
the compressed air to escape.
让华盛顿一直提心吊胆的
就是这次爆♥炸♥
This blow-out was the very thing
Washington had always feared.
空气外泄的声音相当大
The air rushed out with a great noise.
没有人知道自己往哪里去
No one knew where they were going.
困惑，黑暗，到处都是障碍物
工人不断撞到柱子
Confusion, darkness, the profusion of
obstacles, men ran against pillar, post.
压缩空气逸出之后
大水漫淹进来
Without the compressed air
他们以为塔楼会垮下来将他们压死
they thought the tower would crush
down any minute killing them all.
水淹到我们的膝盖
The water rose to our knees
我们推测
河水已经淹了进来
and we supposed of course
that the river had broken in.
在我们成功关上
下层的门之前只过了2，3分钟
From two to three minutes elapsed before
we succeeded in closing the lower doors.
幸运的是没有人伤亡
It was fortunate no lives were lost.
华盛顿身上的重担沉重严酷
The pressure on Washington was relentless.
各位，这次爆破不是意外
Gentlemen, this blow out was no accident.
称它是意外是不对的
Calling it an accident would be wrong,
因为大多数意外
都不是真正的意外
because not one accident
in a hundred deserves the name.
是粗心大意造成的
It was carelessness brought
about by supposing
大家以为船到桥头自然直
才会发生这种事
that matters would
take care of themselves.
最后，过了几个星期
他们封闭了沉箱
At last, after more weeks
they sealed off the caisson
将水泥灌了进去
形成实心坚固的基石
and filled it with concrete to form
a solid foundation block.
接着一组工人
准备在布鲁克林竖立第一座塔楼
Then whilst one team set about
raising the first tower in Brooklyn
另一组人员
开始在纽约开始沉箱作业
another team started
on the New York caisson
这一次他们将面临三倍深的地下之旅
which would face the subterranean
journey three times deeper.
纽约工地这里
我担心的问题很严重
On the New York site
I have some very serious concerns.
进行钻孔后确定了
水位下面的石块深度
Borings have been made to ascertain the
depth of solid rock below the water level,
纽约工地这边
on the New York site
一直到160英尺深处
才碰到大石块
we did not hit solid rock 'til the
depth of a hundred and six feet.
这个深度是前所未见
无人碰触过的惊人深度
That is the most appalling depth
never before reached or attempted.
我最大的恐惧
My greatest fear is that we'll encounter
the worst extremes of caissons disease,
是发生最严重的潜水员病
that these depths are
to sure strike my men.
我的工人
绝对无法承受这个深度
No one knew
if it was even possible to sink
没有人知道有没有可能
将纽约的沉箱放入比较深的床岩
the New York caisson down
to this deeper bedrock.
他们除了要冒健康之险
In spite of the risk to their health
再次雇用几百名工人
once more hundreds of men
were employed clearing away mud,
来清空河水下方的泥土，岩石与沙石
rock and sand, deep beneath the river.
他们在下面
Down below they're scared of
what may happen to the men
很担心这些工人可能会发病
if this disease should strike.
在河面上的工作
非常忙碌，非常有效率
On the surface everything's so busy,
so businesslike.
纽约塔楼就耸立在罗斯福街角
At the foot of Roosevelt Street
where the New York tower
这里是当地最繁忙的地区
is being erected one of the busiest
scenes in the city is met with,
几个月以来
有数十位工人，忙碌工作
and has been for months, dozens of
workmen, hurrying here and there.
手推车与亚麻碎屑，铁锹跟铲子
Wheelbarrows and hards and spakes
and shovels, men chopping, cleaning
工人猛砍，清除，切锯巨木
用来打造庞大的转臂起重机
and sawing the immense timbers used
in constructing the enormous derricks.
仅仅两个月时间
纽约沉箱的进度已经比布鲁克林还要深
After only two months the New York
caisson had gone deeper than the Brooklyn
而磨人的潜水员病开始出现影响
and the racking pains of caisson
disease started to take their toll.
工人可以在沉箱里工作几个小时？
How many successful hours
can men work in the caissons?
这要看工作地点的深度
It depends how deep we're working.
越深的地方
空气越是受到压缩
The deeper we go the more
the air is compressed,
而呼吸也越加困难
the greater the difficulty in breathing.
在纽约沉箱的底部
At the bottom of the New York caisson
压力是每平方英寸34磅重
we have er pressure of thirty four
pounds a square inch,
所以工人每24小时
只能工作4小时
so we only allow the men to work
four hours every twenty four.
到沉箱里面有任何危险吗？
And is there any danger
going down the caisson?
有，是有的
Yes there is.
我看过有些工人流鼻血
I have seen the blood
flow out of men's noses.
满眼红丝，眼珠突出
好像快要掉出来似的
Eyes red, bulging as if they were
ready to start out of their sockets.
这些可怜的孩子
吃了很多苦
All the while the poor
boy's suffering terribly.
他们会反胃做呕
And they retch and vomit and
then when that passes off that's
这个感觉过去之后
就会出现麻痹，动不了
when the paralysis sets in, it's tough.
几乎所有人都会觉得
It is true
四肢跟骨头十分疼痛
that scarcely any man has escaped
without pain to his limbs or bones,
不然就是手臂腿部
有些麻痹感
or by slight paralysis
to the arms or legs.
然而他们都撑过去了
有的出来之后会痛个几天
But they all get over it, either by
suffering out side for a couple of days,
有的即使开始感到疼痛
or by applying the heroic mode of
returning to the caisson at once
还是会逞强继续回到沉箱里工作
as soon as the pains manifest themselves.
进行这么危险的工作
找人有没有遇上困难？
And do you have any trouble
finding men for this dangerous work?
不，恰好相反
我们的工时短，待遇优厚
No on the contrary,
we have short days and good pay.
地面上的工人
工作8小时可以拿到2块50分
The men up above get er two dollars
fifty cents for eight hours work,
在下面工作的人
工作4小时可以拿到2块10分
and the men down below get two dollars
ten cents for four hours work.
我们找到了充足的人力
So we get all the men we need.
虽然工时比较短
工人在回到地面上
Even on the shorter shifts men
were suffering from paralysis
还是会受到麻痹以及锥心之苦
and excruciating pain
when they retuned to the surface.
真正的原因依然成谜
The exact cause was a mystery.
发生过好几起
非常严重的麻痹病例
There are several cases of paralysis
of considerable severity.
不过他们都在
3天到3个星期之间康复了
But they all recover from
three days to three weeks.
到了15英尺深处
手臂腿部会感到剧烈疼痛
And from fifty feet in depth downward
severe pains in the arms and legs
工人将之称为希腊式弯腰
become more frequent called
by the men the Grecian bends,