評論
打印
Every page printed in the last 500 years Owes a debt to Gutenberg's invention.
過去五百年間印刷的每一頁紙 都應歸功于古騰堡的發明
With an investment of 800 guilders,
耗資八百荷蘭盾
The equivalent of over a million dollars,His printing press goes into production.
即相當于超過一百萬美元的投資 他的印刷術投入了生產
He prints 180 copies of the Bible.
印制了一百八十本
Another six billion have been printed since
自此之后又有六十億本印刷出版
Books can now be produced Two thousand times faster than before.
如今書籍的出版速度 比以前快了兩千倍
20 million are printed in 50 years.
五十年間已印制了兩千萬本
As knowledge begins to spread,
知識隨之開始普及
it becomes more within reach of ordinary people
普通人接觸知識的程度
in ways we've never seen before in human history.
是人類史上前所未有的
All these parallels you hear to the Internet,
正如你們所熟知的互聯網一樣
that's a very good analogy.
這是個很恰當的類比
Now a book will inspire one man to strike out across the oceans
隨后 有本書將鼓勵一個人跨過大洋到達彼岸
And change the future of mankind.
并改變人類的未來
1476, off the coast of Portugal.
1476年 在葡萄牙沿岸
An Italian sailor shipwrecked and left for dead by pirates.
一個意大利水手被海盜襲擊 遺棄海上
His name...Christopher Columbus.
他就是 克里斯托弗·哥倫布
