七大工业奇迹（2003）

Seven Wonders of the Industrial World S01E05

Part 3 May 23, 2022, 9:42 a.m.

crash in human history.
我亲爱的佛迪南从来没想到
自己或家人能得到什么好处
My dear Ferdinand never had
the slightest interest in profit
他从此一蹶不振
for himself or his family,
yet he was destroyed.
名声与健康状况都一落千丈
巴拿马工程是祸首
Both in reputation and in health,
by the Panama affair.
德雷赛普死时身败名裂
遭到起诉
De Lesseps died a ruined man
charged with bribing the press
罪名是贿赂媒体
与对国会隐藏巴拿马危机的规模
and parliament to conceal
the scale of the crisis in Panama.
随之而来的丑闻
拖垮了这个政♥府♥
The scandal that followed
brought down the government.
死亡人数已经超过2万人
Over twenty thousand men had perished,
好几百万美金也付诸流水
只为了在热带地区挖一条泥沟
millions of dollars had been squandered
to create a muddy ditch in the tropics.
在法国，接下来有好几年
In France for years
巴拿马这个字
是腐♥败♥以及耻辱的．．．同义词
afterwards the word Panama was synonymous
with corruption and disgrace.
此后过了17年才出现另一个人
Seventeen years elapsed before
another man stepped forward
愿意接受这个艰巨无比
建造运河的任务
to take on the Herculean
task of building the canal.
罗斯福总统亲自挑选铁路工程师
President Theodore Roosevelt handpicked
约翰史蒂文斯承接这个工作
the railroad engineer
John Stevens for the job.
我一生中建造的铁路
超过1千英里
I’ve built over a thousand miles
of railroad in my day
我大多时间
都在世界各地建造铁路
and I’ve been most of the way
around the world doing so.
我遇上过各式各样的状况
就跟其它工程师一样
I’ve encountered most of the conditions
that any engineer would ever have to.
所以我想
这就是我被选上的原因
So I expect that's
what qualifies me for this job.
首先，史蒂文斯勘查
被弃置的法国工作进度
First Stevens inspected
the abandoned French workings.
这片废墟没有任何补救的余地
Little could be salvaged from the ruins.
我不害怕，我也不担心
我非常想挖掘穿越那座山
I’m not afraid, I’m not nervous,
I’m keen to dig through that mountain
亲眼看到船只从太平洋
航行到大西洋
and see ships sail from
the Pacific to the Atlantic.
罗斯福总统想要建造这条运河
让美国海军可以取得海上霸权
Roosevelt wanted to build the canal
so the US Navy could dominate the oceans.
美国在1903年以仅仅1千万美元
得到这一条航线
America seized the route in 1903
for a mere ten million dollars.
现在要靠史蒂文斯将这条泥沟
变成一条海洋公路
It was now down to Stevens to turn
this muddy ditch in to an ocean highway.
任务艰难
我们将会得到胜利
It will be hard, but we will win through.
问题出现时我们会一一解决
We'll deal with the problems
as they come up,
这就是我的做事态度
我将会持续贯彻这个精神
that's what I’ve done all my working life
I’m going to continue to do the same.
我曾经遇上比这更高的大山
我不会让它将我打败
Been through bigger mountains than this,
I’m not going to let this one beat me.
身为一名铁路工程师
史蒂文斯采取截然不同的手法
As a railroad man Stevens
had a completely new approach.
他建立一套铁路系统
功能一如大型运输带
He built a train system to act
as a giant conveyor belt,
可以快速的将掘出的石块
送离这段河道，不让它被冲回来
removing excavator rock quickly from
the cut before it could slide back in.
我们在轨道上
建立蒸汽挖土机的体制
We've got a system of
steam shovels on tracks,
我们会为它们建造一条铁路
we've made a railroad for them as well.
它们会挖掘，然后将泥土抬起来
They're going to dig,
they're going to lift that dirt
然后放到运土火车里
and they're going to put it
on to the dirt trains
再被运送远离河道
which are going to take it out of the cut.
所以我们需要
为蒸汽挖土机铺设轨道
So we need track here for the steam shovel
位置是在运土火车上方
与之平行
and track above parallel
for the dirt train.
我们有轨道举重机，可以移♥动♥
这些轨道，不需要工人自己来
We've got track lifters that are going to
move the tracks so the men don't have to.
我们有运土火车与铲土机
用来移除泥土
We've got dirt trains and a plough system
速度超过6百名人力
that will remove the dirt faster
than six hundred men could do it.
我们可以把泥土运送出去
We can now get the dirt out of here.
那么下雨的时候
就不怕被冲刷回沟道里
So when it rains it's not going
to go back in to the trench.
不只是工程的速度加快
也降低了泥石流的的风险
We not only speed up the work,
we reduce the risk of mudslides.
好几千名工人受到高薪的吸引
纷纷涌到巴拿马
Thousands of labourers flocked to Panama
attracted by the high wages on offer.
这些美国人现在一天挖掘的量
超过法国人一个月的努力
The Americans were now excavating more
in a day than the French did in a month.
这条运河的工程已经工业化了
Work on the canal had been industrialised.
史蒂文斯尚未开始动工
巴拿马又发生了一场大恐慌
Stevens had barely begun
when the great scare descended on Panama.
惊惶的工人纷纷逃离
黄热病四处肆虐的魔手
Terrified workers fled from the most
virulent outbreak yet of yellow fever.
美国人的希望
就落在威廉高嘉斯医生身上
American hopes rested
on Dr William Gorgas.
在战场上牺牲自己的生命
是一回事
It is one thing to lose the life
of a human being in battle.
身为军人
随时准备为理想洒热血
A soldier is prepared
to give his life for a cause.
但是如果一个人有机会打败对手
But when one has the ability
to defeat the enemy
减少性命的损失
那么每一次死亡都是无谓损失
and prevent the loss of life
every death is a waste.
虽然许多人都相信
热带疾病的传染是通过空气
While many believed tropical
diseases were spread on the air,
甚至是不道德的行为
高嘉斯却提出惊人的新看法
or even caused by immoral behaviour,
Gorgas had a striking new idea.
我知道我的挑战
不是清除城市的污秽气息
I knew that my challenge was not
to clean up the filth from the cities,
而是打败这里的敌手
but rather to defeat an enemy here.
好几百万头掠食者伺机突袭
大啖人肉
Where millions of predators were simply
waiting for a human feast to arrive.
高嘉斯相信真正的祸首
就是蚊子
Gorgas believed the real culprit...
was the mosquito.
一位朋友问我
我要如何遏止蚊子的繁殖
A friend said to me, how do you stop
the propagation of the mosquito
因为这个国家
就是一大繁殖场
when the whole country
is the breeding ground.
巴拿马是一个蚊子天堂
Panama was a mosquito paradise.
当地闷热潮湿
最适合蚊虫衍生
The heat and humidity
allowed constant breeding.
高嘉斯需要千军万马
才能制止这么微小的敌人
Gorgas would need an army of workers
to combat this tiny enemy.
可是华盛顿的当权人士
But the authorities in Washington refused
却不愿意转移挖掘的资金用来打蚊子
to divert resources from
digging to fly swatting.
高嘉斯寻求史蒂文斯的协助
让他面临两难局面
Gorgas turned to John Stevens
who faced a dilemma.
他有1/3的工人都病了
A third of his men were sick
然而华盛顿送来的指示
却他要继续动工
but the instructions from Washington
were to make the dirt fly.
根据高嘉斯的说法
医院只会让情况更加恶化
According to Gorgas the hospital
它就像是黄热病的．．．细菌培养皿
itself was making things worse by acting
like an incubator for yellow fever.
你看只要蚊子飞进医院里面
You see once the mosquitoes
are inside the hospital
它们就有大好机会
可以咬这些十分虚弱的病人