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There's only one job that's more dangerous than lighting the fuse... going back to relight it.
只有一項工作比比點燃導火索更危險，那就是回去再點一次。
To cope, workers drink.
為了克服恐懼，工人們喜歡喝酒。
Whiskey calms the nerves--and clouds the brain.
威士忌能緩解緊張，同時也會麻痹大腦。
An English tourist can't believe they're mixing alcohol and explosives.
一名英國游客不敢相信他們在執行爆破工作的時候還敢喝酒。
The Irish laborers grew so reckless of life, th at at the signal for blasting, they would just hold their shovels over their heads.
這些愛爾蘭工人變得越發莽撞大膽以至于當聽到爆炸的信號時，他們只不過拿鏟子在頭頂擋一下。
I think when you're brought up in America, you're brought up on the history of hard work.
我認為成長在美國，就是成長在一段辛勤勞動的歷史之中，
There are so many immigrants that have died to build this country.
有那么多的移民為建設這個國家獻出了生命，
That's in our b loodstream, that's in our DNA as Americans.
這種精神流淌在我們美國人的血液中，深藏在我們美國人的基因里。
We don't want their lives to go in vain. Because of that, we usually work harder than anybody else.
我們不想讓先輩們的犧牲付諸東流，因此我們會比其他人更勤勞。
Eight years of digging. Nearly a thousand lives lost. $7 million, more than 100 million today.
八年的開鑿，近千人的犧牲，七百萬美元的投入相當于如今的一億美元，
The Erie Canal opens in 1825, a miracle of engineering, connecting East and Midwest.
換來了伊利運河于1825年的順利通航，一個工程史上的奇跡誕生了，東部和中西部從此連為一體。
It's an instant economic superhighway. $15 million of goods a year flow along the canal.
運河立刻成為了一條推動經濟的高速公路，每年有總價值1500萬美元的貨物來往于河上，
Villages along the canal boom into dynamic cities -- Buffalo, Syracuse and Rochester. Goods crash in price, up to 95%.
沿岸的小村莊迅速發展成了發達的城市。水牛城，錫拉丘茲和羅切斯特，物價大幅下降，最大降幅達到95%。
A frontier that had to be self-sufficient can now buy anything they want. Prosperity is on the move. New York City becomes a boomtown.
昔日不得不自給自足的邊陲小鎮如今各種商品應有盡有，繁榮之火開始燎原，紐約市變成了一座繁華都市。
Wall Street takes off as a global financial center. The city quadruples in size... and surpasses New Orleans as the nation's number-one port.
華爾街迅速崛起成為了世界金融中心，城市規模擴大了4倍并一舉超越新奧爾良成為全國第一大港口。
There's so much money around, the word "Millionaire" is invented in 1840.
這里財富聚集，"百萬富翁"一詞就是1840年在這里誕生的。
The Erie Canal still shapes New York today. 80% of the upstate population still lives within 25 miles of it.
伊利運河仍在影響著今天的紐約州，其北部80%的人口依然生活在運河25英里的流域范圍內。
n. 邊界，邊境，尖端，邊緣
