纪录片《美国商业大亨传奇》 喋血工厂（12）

Andrew Carnegie is on the brink¹ of losing everything.

安德鲁·卡内基被逼到了失去一切的边缘

Without the railroads, he's lost his market for steel.

没了铁路业 他就失去了钢材的市场

And he blames his bitter rival, John D. Rockefeller.

他将这些都归咎于死对头 约翰·D·洛克菲勒

Desperate for a new market,Carnegie notices a trend he can capitalize on.

为了寻找新市场卡内基注意到了一个他可以利用的趋势

Unemployed² Americans, by the thousands are flooding cities like New York and Chicago, in search of work.

美国成千上万的失业者都涌入到纽约和芝加哥这样的城市试图寻找工作

And to accommodate the population surge,buildings are being constructed as fast as possible.

为了容纳人口猛增城镇建设的速度变得尤其之快

Carnegie brilliantly begins to see that the future is not in rails but in structural³ steel,in girders, in beams,to build skyscrapers⁵.

卡内基很聪明地看到钢在未来 更重要的用途不再是铁路 而是建筑 用于支架 用于横梁 来建造摩天大楼

And again, he's ahead of the curve.

他再次走在了时代的前列

The world's first skyscraper⁴ is built in Chicago.Its thin brick walls hang on a thick frame manufactured from Carnegie's steel.

世界第一座摩天大楼建于芝加哥 它是粗框架挂上薄砖墙 框架用的正是卡内基所生产的钢材

In the next few years,over 100,000 new building are erected⁶ in Chicago alone.

在接下来的几年间 仅仅是在芝加哥 就建起了超过十万座的新建筑

Until steel began to become a major product,much of what we see about America could not have happened.

在钢材成为重要产品之前我们所看到的很多美国现象都不会发生

America grew up vertically⁷ on steel.

美国的垂直生长依赖于钢材

Modern America is being built using Carnegie's Steel.

现代美国就是用卡内基的钢材建立起来的

1 brink   

n.(悬崖、河流等的)边缘，边沿

参考例句：

• The tree grew on the brink of the cliff.那棵树生长在峭壁的边缘。
• The two countries were poised on the brink of war.这两个国家处于交战的边缘。

2 unemployed   

adj.失业的，没有工作的；未动用的，闲置的

参考例句：

• There are now over four million unemployed workers in this country.这个国家现有四百万失业人员。
• The unemployed hunger for jobs.失业者渴望得到工作。

3 structural   

adj.构造的，组织的，建筑（用）的

参考例句：

• The storm caused no structural damage.风暴没有造成建筑结构方面的破坏。
• The North American continent is made up of three great structural entities.北美大陆是由三个构造单元组成的。

4 skyscraper   

n.摩天大楼

参考例句：

• The skyscraper towers into the clouds.那幢摩天大楼高耸入云。
• The skyscraper was wrapped in fog.摩天楼为雾所笼罩。

5 skyscrapers   

n.摩天大楼

参考例句：

• A lot of skyscrapers in Manhattan are rising up to the skies. 曼哈顿有许多摩天大楼耸入云霄。
• On all sides, skyscrapers rose like jagged teeth. 四周耸起的摩天大楼参差不齐。

6 ERECTED   

adj. 直立的，竖立的，笔直的 vt. 使 ... 直立，建立

参考例句：

• A monument to him was erected in St Paul's Cathedral. 在圣保罗大教堂为他修了一座纪念碑。
• A monument was erected to the memory of that great scientist. 树立了一块纪念碑纪念那位伟大的科学家。

7 vertically   

adv.垂直地

参考例句：

• Line the pages for the graph both horizontally and vertically.在这几页上同时画上横线和竖线，以便制作图表。
• The human brain is divided vertically down the middle into two hemispheres.人脑从中央垂直地分为两半球。