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- It's a concept that's been impossible to execute.
- 这一想法在现在已经不能实施
- Today, we know it as a "monopoly".
- 今天 我们将它称作"垄断"
- But Rockefeller isn't just expanding his company,
- 但洛克菲勒不仅是在扩张他的公司
- he's also looking to maximize profit--
- 他还想最大化利润
- by any means necessary.
- 通过一切必要的手段
- We've got another refinery.
- 我们又买了一家炼油厂
- One more into the fold.
- 又圈进一个
- Do you want me to take a look at it?
- 你想让我看看它吗
- No. I want you to shut it down.
- 不需要 我希望你把它关掉
- The business of creating monopolies, crushing opposition--
- 打破竞争 建立垄断
- part of me says he did that because it was there to be done,
- 他这样做是因为觉得可以做到
- and he could do it better than anybody else
- 而且他能比其他人做得都好
- and he made a bloody fortune out of it.
- 他从中榨取了大笔财富
- By the time he's finished,
- 到最后
- Rockefeller controls ninety percent of the North American oil supply.
- 洛克菲勒控制了北美90%的石油供应
- His company, Standard Oil, is the country's first monopoly.
- 他的标准石油公司成为了国内的第一家垄断公司
- At thirty-three, the Ohio oil man
- 33岁之时 这位俄亥俄油商
- is now the most powerful man in the country.
- 成为了国内最有权势的男人
- The Commodore has created a monster.
- 船长造就了一个可怕的怪物
- He realizes that the only way to combat Rockefeller
- 他意识到 要想对抗洛克菲勒 唯一的做法
- is for the railroads to start working together.
- 就只有联合各大铁路公司了
- He forms an unlikely alliance with his biggest rival,
- 他同最大的竞争对手建立起了看似不可能成的联盟
- and together, they agree to pull all of Rockefeller's deals.
- 他俩联手 决定终止同洛克菲勒的任何协议
- the move is nothing short of a declaration of war.
- 这一举动无异于对他宣战
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洛克菲勒、范德比尔特、卡内基、阿斯托、福特和摩根,他们的名字几乎是美国梦的近义词,也代表着美国梦的历史。他们转变了他们所接触的每个行业:石油、铁路、钢铁、船运、汽车,还有金融。他们的付出改变了一个国家。出身贫寒,他们却多次涉足总统选举,设立经济政策,影响他们那个年代——内战到大萧条时期。他们,被称为造就美国的人。
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