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Latrobe will have to tunnel through rock 4,000ft thick.
拉特羅布得在四千英尺厚的巖石中鑿出隧道
Even today, tunneling is a remarkable engineering feat.
即便在今天 隧道穿鑿仍是一項浩大的工程
Back in the mid 1800s, it was unthinkable.
而在十八世紀中葉 這簡直難以想象
If you wanted to get to the other side of that range by rail,you had to go through it.
但如果要通火車 就必須從中穿過
You had to think big, you had to be audacious.
因此必須要敢想敢做 大膽冒險
The explosive force: gunpowder.
爆破的力量是火藥
The muscle: from a new kind of pioneer.Irish immigrants.
而人力則來源于一批新的開拓者 愛爾蘭移民
43% of America's foreign-born population.
他們占美國外來人口的百分之四十三
They flee the potato famine in Ireland In search of a new life.
他們從愛爾蘭的大饑荒中奔逃而來 尋求新生
Here they earn less than a dollar a day,
在這里他們每日掙不到一美元
But they are praised as "Pioneers of civilization".
但他們被尊稱為"文明的開拓者"
A New York newspaper proclaims:"There are many new kinds of power"
一份美國報紙聲稱: 在共和政體下
working at the fabric of this republic:steam power, horse power and Irish power.
許多新生力量勃然興起: 蒸汽動力 馬力 以及愛爾蘭人力
The last works hardest of all.
"而愛爾蘭人力最為辛勞勤勉"
It would be said of immigrants,you'd rarely see one with gray hair.
據說那時很少見到 有白發的移民
A worker was lucky to live long enough to have gray hair.
能活到長出白發的年紀 就算是工人的幸運了
