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But crime isn't the only problem plaguing urban streets.
但困擾城市居民的不僅是居高不下的犯罪率
In many cities, slums are reaching epidemic proportions.
許多城市中，貧民窟數量迅速增加
Multiple families crammed into one small room.
多個家庭擠在一個小房間里
Human waste pours into the streets, alleys and open courtyards.
大街小巷露天庭院，遍地都是糞便
People were crowded in, there were windowless tenements.
人們擠在連窗戶都沒有的屋子里生活
sometimes you had no internal plumbing, just privies in the basement, in the backyard,and the Lower East Side during these years, was the single most crowded place in the entire world.
有的房子連下水道也沒有，只能使用地下室或后院的廁所，這幾年中紐約的下東區是當時世界上最為擁擠的地區
Jacob Riis, Danish immigrant, crime reporter, photographer.
雅各布·里斯，來自丹麥的移民，罪案報道記者，攝影家
He gets leads for stories from Chief Inspector Byrnes.
從刑偵局長伯恩斯處獲得頭條消息
Now he's about to expose the hell of tenements.
此刻他要報道貧民窟惡劣的居住環境
Jacob Riis knows what it's like to be poor.
雅各布·里斯深知貧窮的滋味
15 years ago, he lost his job in a stock-market crash.
15年前，他曾在一場股市風暴中失業
It's midnight, but Riis has a new technology that will change the public perception of poverty forever.
此時正是午夜，不過里斯掌握了一項新技術足以徹底改變公眾對于貧窮的態度
An explosive powder that produces enough light to photograph in the dark.
引爆少量火藥來產生強光以進行夜間拍攝
This is one of the first-ever photographs of slum life.
這是貧民窟最早的照片之一
Go. It shocks millions.
好了，這掀起了軒然大波
Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Jacob A.Riis and this is how the other half live and die in New York City.
各位好，我是雅各布·A·里斯，這里展示的是紐約的另一類人生老病死的畫面
Magazines refuse to print his work,so Riis puts on his own"Magic lantern" Shows.
雜志社不肯刊登他的作品，里斯不得不為人們展示幻燈片
His mission: to show the nation's wealthy something they've never seen before, filth and desperation on their doorstep.
他的目的就是向富人們展示，他們聞所未聞但卻發生在他們身邊的悲慘故事
In this block, nine dead were carried out this year alone.Five in baby coffins.
在這一街區，僅今年一年就有9人死亡，其中5名尚在襁褓之中
What he demonstrated was that there is another reality, that all that prosperity didn't trickle down all the way to the bottom,
他所展示的是現實的另一面，社會一片繁榮但這種繁榮并沒有惠及社會底層民眾，
and there was some deplorable living conditions and this country was not just forced to confront those conditions but then was moved to begin to deal with them.
有些人生活環境十分惡劣，我們國家不僅得面臨這些問題而且不得不著手解決這些問題
