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There's a common theme to the greatest innovations in American history,
在美國歷史上最偉大的創(chuàng)新都有一個共同的主題
and that is these were things that helped people or goods or ideas travel about more freely.
即是為了幫助實現(xiàn)人、商品、思想更自由地流動
The Interstate Highway becomes the biggest engineering project in American history.
州際高速公路成為美國史上最大的工程
It costs the nation $129 billion.
耗資1290億美元
2.4 billion man hours of hard work.
24億個艱苦工時
And just like the railroads a century before it's built with manual labor and sheer grit.
就像一個世紀之前的鐵路一樣，它建立在人力的勞作和無畏的精神之上
America's landscape has been shaped by transportation.
美國地貌由此被運輸改變
The transcontinental railway opened up half a billion acres of land and 8 new states.
橫貫大陸的鐵路開發(fā)了5億英畝的土地 催生了8個全新的州
200,000 miles of track huhn out of hostile terrain.
20萬英里的鐵軌從險峻的地形中噴薄而出
Faced with a mountain,find an inventive way of blowing it up.
面對崇山峻嶺 千方百計把它攻克
Nitroglycerin, black powder, dynamite.硝化甘油 黑火藥 炸藥
The Interstate is the largest earth-moving project in the history of the world.州際高速公路工程建設(shè)的運土規(guī)模之宏大在世界上無出其右
One and a half million tons of explosives.
動用了150萬噸炸藥
4.2 billion cubic yards of earth removed.
搬運了42億立方碼的泥土
Enough to fill more than 8 million football stadiums.
足以填滿800萬余個足球場
We can build anything, we damn will, please,
只要想建 我們沒什么建不成的
we're going to go about it.
現(xiàn)在輪到了州際公路
And it did change the country.
它也確實改變了美國
The Freeways, the Interstate Highway System.
高速公路 州際公路系統(tǒng)
It connected the cities in a way that no one had seen before on a level no one had seen before.
把各個城市以一種前所未有的方式連接起來 超乎任何人的想象
Today there are 46,876 miles of Interstate Highways.
如今 州際高速公路總長46876英里
Enough to wrap nearly twice around the world.
足以把地球繞上兩圈
