纪录片《美国商业大亨传奇》 新的对手(14)（在线收听）

What's this?

这是什么

My resignation.

我的辞呈

You won't find anybody else to employ you.

你不会找到第二个雇你的人

I'll set up my own company.

我会开设自己的公司

Good luck finding an investor.

祝你找到投资人

Now free to pursue his own ideas,Tesla begins looking for an investor to back his AC technology.

现在特斯拉可以尽情追求自己的理想了 他开始要找一位愿意支持交流电技术的投资人

He finds one in inventor-turned-businessman George Westinghouse.

他找到了曾是发明家的商人 乔治·威斯汀豪斯

The magnetic field, when it moves,it carries the motor around.

磁场运动时就会带动马达

Motor powers itself.

马达于是产生动力

How far do you think you can take AC? I mean, what is its potential?

交流电能走多远 我是说 它有多大潜能

Build one power plant,can supply enough electricity to eastern part of United States.

建立一座电厂将能为整个美国东部提供足够电力

That's amazing.

太惊人了

Morgan and Edison may have lit up New York,but Westinghouse and Tesla believe alternating current's greater power is more effective...

摩根和爱迪生点亮了纽约 但威斯汀豪斯和特斯拉相信交流电将会具有更大的效用

And they set out to prove it.

他们决定去证明这一点