纽约黑帮纪实（2015）

The Making of the Mob: New York S01E08

Part 5 Sept. 24, 2020, 8:50 a.m.

Meyer Lansky retires to Miami Beach,
迈耶·兰斯基隐退后居住于迈阿密沿海一带
where he lives well into his old age.
在那里他的晚年安逸幸福
If I were president, I would have named Meyer Lansky
如果我是总统的话我会提名迈耶·兰斯基
Secretary of State and Secretary of the Treasury.
作为国务卿和财政部长
Never mind that he can't have both jobs.
他就算不能兼顾二者也没关系
The Treasury, he would have gotten the budget balanced.
在财政上他或许能让财政实现收支平衡
State, we could have sent him
在外交事务上我们或许可以
to the Middle East, he would have solved it.
派驻他到中东那里很多问题或许他能搞定
I'm not going to say that I would have agreed
我不能说我会完全同意
with everything Meyer Lansky did,
迈耶·兰斯基所说的话
but I would say that I wouldn't have minded
但我会说有他在身边帮我的话
having him on my side.
我完全不介意
Lansky dies in 1983
兰斯基1983年逝世
with only $37,000 to his name,
名下财产仅有3万7千美元
although the FBI believes he stashed away
但联邦调查局相信他把
more than 300 million in secret bank accounts.
3亿美元的资产被兰斯基储存于秘密的银行账户里
In just over a half a century,
半个世纪以来
Lucky Luciano, Frank Costello,
查尔斯·卢西亚诺弗兰克·科斯特洛
Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel,
迈耶·兰斯基毕斯·西格尔
and Vito Genovese worked together to become
还有维多·吉诺维斯一道
the most successful criminals the world has ever known,
成为了史上势力最强大的黑帮头目
organizing crime into a multimillion-dollar industry
管理黑帮让黑帮拥有数百万美元的产业
and leaving behind a legacy that forever changes America.
他们传奇的一生也永远改变了美国的社会格局
The Mafia became an avenue to success.
黑帮开始成为通往成功的康庄大道
And in its own way, it was a recapitulation
其实这也算是美国梦
of the American dream.
的一种体现
You come to America,
你来到美国
you work hard, you work smart,
奋力打拼辛勤而聪明的打拼下
and in time, success rewards your endeavors.
你的付出终归得到回报
There is a certain ruthlessness.
当然要成功当中你必须心狠手辣
There's a certain willingness to do whatever it takes.
为了成功你必须不择手段
And they're surviving on their wits.
靠着自身的才智他们在黑帮中才有立足之地
They're surviving on their guile.
也靠狡猾混迹江湖中
And these were the charismatic mobsters.
这些都是黑帮分子身上显著的特点
The funny thing about the Mafia
在黑帮里有意思的是
is there's all this mythology around it
对西西里和之前的社会
about Sicily and the old world.
一直有很多传奇故事
Really, the Mafia that we know is as American as jazz.
实际上我们所知的黑帮就像美国爵士一样为人熟知
It's about this mixed group of guys.
无非就是几个志同道合的人
They turned crime into big business.
将犯罪集团转变成拥有大量资产的黑帮
This street level group of thugs
这些街头小混混
organized into a very sophisticated organization.
将小帮派变成了等级森严的大型黑帮
It infiltrated the unions, it infiltrated politics.
它的影响力渗透到了电影界的工会也渗透到了政♥治♥中
It infiltrated Hollywood.
也渗透到了好莱坞
I can't think of another example
我实在想不到
of an organized crime group
还有什么犯罪团体
that had the grip the Mafia had on America.
能对美国黑帮和美国社会产生如此深远的影响
Totally criminal, totally amoral,
他们都是犯罪团伙做的事也不道德
totally horrible, but totally brilliant.
令人闻风丧胆但真的实在是传奇