七大工业奇迹（2003）

Seven Wonders of the Industrial World S01E07

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

这里是美国西南部的峡谷地区
The Canyon Lands of
the south western United States.
世界上最荒凉严峻的地区之一
One of the harshest environments on earth.
在地球的这个地区有一条宽阔山谷
从中横砍而过那就是科罗拉多河
Cutting through them an open wound in the
side of the planet- the Colorado River.
浩大的科罗拉多河
1千两百万年来
The riding Colorado River has never
been tamed in 12 million years.
从未被驯服过，现在也还是一样
It hasn't been done... yet.
法兰克可罗认为
这是他毕生等待的挑战
For Frank Crowe this is the challenge
he has been waiting for.
引爆♥炸♥药
Fire in the hole.
他们的计划是建造一座水坝
用水力改造整片沙漠
The plan to build a dam and transform
为数百万人提供用水与电力
the desert with water
and electricity for millions.
工程需要在密实的火山岩里
炸出4英里长的隧♥道♥
It will take four miles of tunnels
blasted through dense volcanic rock.
胡佛水坝建造完成之后
将会超越埃及的伟大金字塔
The Hoover damn with stand larger than
the great pyramids of Egypt.
然而建造的过程中
也不乏人员牺牲
But its construction
will not come without sacrifice.
外头的地理环境很险恶
This is a brutal environment out here.
没有人以为这事很简单
Nobody said it was going to be easy.
我们现在一个星期
就失去三个人
We're losing three men a week right now.
他们没有办法呼吸
我们都呼吸困难
They can't breath, we're being suffocated.
都要靠绝对的速度与效率来完成
It all rests of absolute
speed and efficiency.
他们一直催，一直催我们
There's pushing and there's pushing.
我们还在安全界限当中
We are well within our safety margin.
已经到了危险边缘了
You're sailing dangerously close.
没有办法慢下来
I can't afford to slow.
铁石心肠的天才
法兰克可罗向来独断独行
A ruthless genius- Frank Crowe
plays by his own rules
他将使出浑身解数
来驯化科罗拉多河
and it will take all his powers
to tame the Colorado.
我执意要造那座水坝
I’m wild to build that dam.
胡佛水坝
七大工程奇迹
本节目取材自真实事件
片中演员所言取材自当时纪录
法兰克可罗逆科罗拉多河而上
Frank Crowe is traveling up the Colorado
进行第一次
的胡佛水坝工地的勘查工作
to inspect the future site of
the Hoover Dam for the first time.
我花了27年时间在河底工作
I’ve spent my 27-year career
at river bottoms.
我天生就是要做这一行吧
I guess you might say it's in my blood.
为美国政♥府♥工作的总工程师
是华克布里格杨
Working for the America government
is chief engineer Walker Brig-Young.
他做简报表示建造的水坝
His brief is to design a dam
要能在干燥的沙漠中
创造城市与农地
that will create cities and
farmland in the arid desert.
这是美国政♥府♥赞助的工程计划中
This is the most ambitious
government sponsored
最为宏伟的一次
engineering project ever
undertaken in the US.
我们，我们沿着这条河
侦查了好几百英里
And we er, we scoured
a hundred miles of this river
寻找最合适的地点
looking for exactly the right spot.
他们是世界上经验最丰富的
两位水坝建造者
These men are two of the most
experienced dam builders in the world.
如果水坝的高度跟大山一样
But a dam as high as a mountain
将会制♥造♥出一座长一百英里的湖泊
前所位未见的工程
that will create a lake a hundred miles
long has never been attempted.
不能容许丝毫的失误
There is no margin for error.
这些山壁的结构
是密实的火山岩
These walls are made of
dense volcanic rock.
非常的坚固
Pretty strong enough
to absorb the pressure
足以吸收庞大的水坝工程
施予的重压
that the massive body of
the dam will exert on them
同时也可以避免出错的时候
导致地震发生的危机
and free of tell-tale fault lines which
could indicate a risk of earthquakes.
可罗一生中造过六座水坝
但是规模都没有这么大
Crowe has built six dams in his career
but nothing on this scale.
我大概在纸上作业看过几百次了吧
从来没靠得这么近
I guess I must have seen it on paper
a hundred times but never up close.
它将会耸立在这里
And it's going to stand right here.
上帝造就这片自然景色
要靠人类去发掘与利用它
The Lord put this site here and it was
only up to man to discover and use it.
我必须把这个缺口堵住
What I’ve got to do is plug the gap,
利用这条河的水力
还有在这个过程当中不要被水冲走
harness the river's power and
not get swept away in the process.
罗拉多河带来的威胁
相当惊人
The threat from
the Colorado river is terrifying.
它承接来自内华达山脉
与洛矶山的水量
Fed by run off from the Sierra Nevada
and the Rocky Mountains,
将前人想要驯服它的企图
一扫而空
it has swept away all previous
attempts to tame it.
它已经冲走所有当地的屋舍
夺走数千条人命
It has wiped out entire
settlements and killed thousands.
许多人相信企图拦腰截断
Many believe that damming
变幻莫测的大自然
是不可行的，而且欠缺思考
this unpredictable force of nature
is impossible and reckless.
可罗先生，有些人推断水坝完成之后
Mr. Crowe, some have speculated
that the weight of the water mass
里头的水量会将地壳压坏
behind the finished dam could
actually weaken the earth's crust,
甚至会改变地球的运行轨道
even affect the planet's orbit.
对那些认为这是不可能的人
您有什么话说？
Well what do you say to those
who insist that it simply cannot be done?
这不过是个水坝
一座非常大的水坝
Well it's just a dam,
but it's a damn big dam.
1931年的3月
工程开动了
March 1931 - the work starts.
为了拿到
建造胡佛水坝的工程标案
To win the bid to build the Hoover dam,
可罗与建商一致同意接受
Crowe and the building
contractors have agreed
政♥府♥开出的苛刻完工日期
to a series of punishing
government deadlines
纵使水坝的工程庞杂艰难
and this in spite of
the complexity of the design.
我们要造一座拱形重力水坝
Now ours is a er, an arch gravity dam.
圆拱形状让水坝建筑富有弹性
The arched shape allows
the structure to flex
可以吸收围起来的大量水分
造成的巨大压力
as it absorbs the tremendous
force of the water
屈张的时候
会推向山谷的峡壁
building up behind it and in flexing,
将压力转移给坚硬的火山岩
push against the canyon walls to
transfer that load into the sold rock
同时水的强大重量
会因为重力的关系
while the gravity of its
tremendous mass is pushing
往往向下抵着河流的床岩
against the bed rock of the river bed
这两种力量连手
让水坝保持屹立不动
and these forces combined
lock the dam in position.
而且这个工程
将在一片荒地当中施工
All this is to be built right
in the middle of nowhere.
在动手打造这座水坝之前
他们必须先建造一条通往峡谷的通路
Before they can even start on the dam they
must first build a route into the canyon.
政♥府♥已经从拉斯维加斯
铺设了33英里的铁道
The government has laid 33 miles
of rail road out from Las Vegas
我们现在只要拓展一条通路
穿越这些峡谷的斜坡
so now were forging an access route
through these side canyons,
一直通往水坝的旁边
以及1百英尺的深处
right down to the dam side,
and a hundred feet below.
这可以让我将几百万吨♥的原料
This will enable me
to move millions of tons
一直送到这条河的岸边
of materials right down
to the river's edge.
对可罗来说
速度就是一切