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An estimated 1500 Chinese die in explosions and rock slides.
大約有1500名中國(guó)工人死于爆炸和巖石塌方
Hung Leiwo survives.
洪雷沃得以幸存
His son will be the first Chinese-American to graduate an engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.
他的兒子成了第一位畢業(yè)于加州大學(xué)伯克利分校工程專業(yè)的美籍華人
Once through the mountains,track laying accelerates from 10 inches to 6 miles a day.
打通了山脈之后火車軌道的鋪設(shè)速度大大加快，從每天10英寸提高到每天6英里
Each spike is struck 3 times.10 spikes to a rail.400 rails a mile.
每個(gè)道釘釘3下，每節(jié)鐵軌10個(gè)道釘，每英里有400節(jié)鐵軌
21 Million hammer swings complete the railroad.
需要揮舞2100萬下榔頭鐵路才能完工
May 10th, 1869.A one word message arrives by telegraph:"Done".
1869年5月10日，電報(bào)傳來一條只有一個(gè)詞的消息:完工
A six-month journey across the continent is cut to 6 days.
從前橫穿大陸要6個(gè)月,現(xiàn)在縮減為6天
The folks would once had to risk everything in a wagon train.
從前人們得押上全副身家才能加入西進(jìn)的馬車隊(duì)
That is eliminated.You can now can get on the railroad and travel from Boston to Sacramento.
如今再也用不上了,你現(xiàn)在可以坐上火車,從波士頓一直坐到薩克拉門托
That's a revolution.
這就是革命
The Internet of the area, the transcontinental railroad, changes everything it touches,triggering a mass migration to the Great Plains
貫穿大陸的鐵路網(wǎng)改變了沿途的一切給大平原帶來了大量的移民
The Great Plains conquered by steel and steam.
蒸汽火車征服了整個(gè)大平原
The transcontinental railroad threads a thin line of civilization through the wilderness.
橫貫大陸的鐵路為沿途的荒蕪地區(qū)帶來了文明
People follow. In just one year, 40,000 settlers move to Nebraska,fanning out across the frontier in wagon trains.
隨之而來的是人口,僅僅一年里40000移民奔向內(nèi)布拉斯加州,他們乘坐的馬車奔向內(nèi)陸的四面八方
When in the mid-19th century to the late 19th century,they went out and settled some hostile territory known to mankind.
從19世紀(jì)中葉到19世紀(jì)末，他們離開家鄉(xiāng)定居在一些不適合人類居住的惡劣環(huán)境
The Great Plain where I grew up.These were true pioneers.
我就是在大平原長(zhǎng)大的，他們是真正的先驅(qū)
The government accelerates the process with the greatest land giveaway in history.
政府慷慨的土地給予政策又加速了這一進(jìn)程
Anyone with a $10 filing fee can claim free land.
任何人只要花10美元的登記費(fèi)就可以得到免費(fèi)的土地
A quarter are single women and ex-slaves.
其中四分之一是單身女性和昔日的奴隸
When you see the desperate scramble in these rickety wagon trains,you realize that promise of America was land.
當(dāng)你看到絕望的人們爭(zhēng)相擠上顛簸的四輪馬車，你會(huì)意識(shí)到美國(guó)的未來寄托在土地之上
These are people who never in a million years would be a able own land in New York.
就算再過一百萬年這些人也不可能在紐約州擁有土地
