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Veterans are called "Fixers". The novices are "Snakes",because working with them can be deadly.
資格老的稱為吸鐵石，新手則稱為毒蛇，這是因為和新手共事可能會有生命危險
The old hands know just how dangerous it can be.
內行的人都知道那有多危險
The thing I hate worse than poison is to take on a new man when we're near the top.
我最怕的就是在高處工作時啟用新手
They all get used to it or get killed.
他們要么適應，要么喪命
No hard hats.Just a 280-foot drop.
他們沒有安全帽，距離地面足有280英尺
A sudden gust of wind and it's all over.
哪怕突然刮陣強風，就能一命嗚呼
They're up here eight hours a day, meals when they can.
他們每天連續高空作業8小時，沒有固定的午飯時間
No bath room breaks.
也不能去方便
They're called roughnecks, European immigrants and Mohawk Indians.
人們叫他們鉆工，歐洲移民或是印第安人
Many were sailors and bridge workers, so they're used to heights.
他們許多曾做過水手和建橋工人，習慣于在高處工作
The guys balancing on the beams.
這些人能夠在橫梁上保持平衡
I think it took a lot of bravery, I think it took a lot of skill, a lot of physically--physically challenging.
需要莫大的勇氣，需要掌握大量技巧，也面臨很多身體上的挑戰
But I also think it-- you had to be a little crazy.
不過我還認為，狂熱的心態必不可少
The stakes couldn't be higher.It's a risk they are willing to take.
這項工作是如此危險，而他們甘愿冒險
The pay is $4 a day, twice the going rate for manual labor.
每天的報酬是4美元，是時下普通體力活的兩倍
Foreman William Starrett sums up his dangerous job.
工頭威廉·施泰力是這樣總結他的工作的
Building skyscrapers is the nearest peacetime equivalent of war.
建造摩天大樓是和平時代沒有硝煙的戰爭
Even to the occasional grim reality of an accident or a maimed body, even death,remind us that we are fighting a war of construction against the forces of nature.
時不時要面對殘酷的現實，事故、傷殘甚至死亡，時時提醒我們，我們正在進行著一場對抗自然的建筑之戰
He makes it.Many aren't so lucky.
他成功了，而許多人并沒有他那么幸運
Two roughnecks out of five die or are disabled on the job.
五分之二的鉆工因工死亡或傷殘
Whether it's a builder or an architect, or... whatever, whoever had the imagination to design and build some of the great structures of New York, I'm inspired by.
不管是建筑工人還是建筑師或者是那些發揮奇思妙想設計，并建造紐約那些杰出建筑的人都讓我倍受鼓舞
In 1902 ,in New York, this is what the future looks like.
1902年，紐約人對城市的設想就是這番模樣
The Flatiron Building, its triangular footprint determined by the intersection of three streets, not two.
熨斗大廈地基為三角形，這是由于該建筑位于三條大街的交匯處
The steel frame means the outside can be hung in sections like a suit of clothes.
該建筑采用鋼筋建造，外層可如衣服一樣掛在各自的位置
Now the walls don't take the weight, the steel does.
承擔建筑重量的不再是墻壁，而是鋼筋
