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Those days, your father was working for himself.
那些日子里，你父親自己打拼
If there's one thing you could say about Edward Bloom...
要說(shuō)愛(ài)德華·布魯有啥特質(zhì)…
it's that he was a social person, and people took a liking to him.
就是他是個(gè)善于交際的人 人們都喜歡他
One night, he was returning from three weeks on the road...
有一晚，他出外推銷三天后…
when he hit a thunderstorm unlike any in his life.
遇到前所未有的暴風(fēng)雨
Fate has a way of circling back on a man and taking him by surprise.
命運(yùn)殘酷的折磨著人…總讓人訝異
A man sees things differently at different times in his life.
人在不同時(shí)刻看法總有不同
This town didn't seem the same now that he was older.
現(xiàn)在他年長(zhǎng)許多 這個(gè)鎮(zhèn)也不再如往昔了
A new road had brought the outside world to Spectre...
新辟的道路將豐都與世界連結(jié)…
and with it, banks, liens and debt.
銀行、抵押借款也隨之而來(lái)
Almost everywhere you looked, people were bankrupt.
舉目望去，大家都破產(chǎn)了
The auction today is for the town of Spectre.The opening bid will be $ 10,000.
今天的拍賣標(biāo)的是豐都鎮(zhèn).起標(biāo)價(jià)為一萬(wàn)元
So Edward Bloom decided to buy the town. - 50,000.
所以愛(ài)德華·布魯…決定買下此鎮(zhèn) - 五萬(wàn)
I couldn't believe my eyes... - He was never a wealthy man...
我真的無(wú)法相信… - 他并不有錢…
but he had made other men rich, and now he asked for their favors.
但他卻讓其他人富有 所以他請(qǐng)他們幫忙
I'm trying to save... - Most of them hadn't seen Spectre.
一個(gè)拯救… - 他們大多都沒(méi)看過(guò)豐都鎮(zhèn)
They only had Edward's words to describe it.
只聽(tīng)過(guò)愛(ài)德華片面的形容
That's all he needed. He sold them on the dream.
他只需要那樣 他向他們推銷夢(mèng)想
So first he bought the farms.
所以他先買下農(nóng)場(chǎng)
Then he bought the houses. And then he bought the stores.
然后買下房舍 接著買下商店
Whatever he bought, the people were not asked to leave or pay rent.
不論他買了什么 人們都不需搬走或付房租
They were just asked to keep doing as they were doing.
他們只被要求維持原來(lái)的生活
In that way, he could make sure the town would never die.
那樣的話 他就可以確保這個(gè)鎮(zhèn)不會(huì)死去
Within six months, his trust had purchased the entire town.With one exception.
在六個(gè)月內(nèi) 他的基金會(huì)幾乎買下了整個(gè)鎮(zhèn).只有一家例外
