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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。
adj. 整齐的，整洁的，相当大的
vt. 使
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- The industrialists of that period of time are people who are out for themselves to make large fortunes as quickly as possible,
- 当时的工业资本家是一群只顾自己的人 只想尽可能快地赚取大量财产
- even if it means pressing the envelope of what they have to do.
- 为了实现目的 他们不惜采取任何手段
- Frick begins squeezing all that he can get out of the workers at Homestead.
- 弗里克开始尽一切可能压榨霍姆斯泰德工人的每一滴血汗
- Frick decided that the only way to keep the plant running efficiently was with a 12 hour day, six days a week.
- 弗里克认为要想让工厂高效运行 工人必须一周工作6天 每天12小时
- What that meant was intolerable working conditions.
- 这意味着难以忍耐的工作条件
- No one could work 12 hours a day.
- 没人一天能工作12小时
- If you're working in an office,you'd fall asleep at your desk.
- 如果是在办公室 你肯定会累倒在桌上
- If you fall asleep in a steel mill,you end up dead.
- 如果累倒在钢厂里 你会死掉
- You know back when Carnegie was building his empire,obviously there were no labor laws, it was a free for all.
- 在卡内基建立钢铁帝国时明显不存在劳动法 这些做法都是允许的
- And looking back it seems horrific in a lot of different ways that workers were taken advantage of
- 现在看来这很糟糕 工厂竟然能够通过各种方式压榨工人
- But that was the game that was played back then.
- 但在当时的游戏规则下 这无可厚非
- The conditions are dangerous.
- 工作条件很危险
- And a small group of men bands together to raise their concerns.
- 一小群人团结到一起提出他们的忧虑
- Many of the workers at the steel mill felt that change in working conditions was a necessity.
- 钢厂的很多工人感觉到改善工作条件是必须的
- They were exhausted and they wanted wages that were livable.
- 他们工作得精疲力竭 他们希望工资能够过得去
- Unions are relatively new in America.
- 工会在美国才刚刚出现不久
- And Frick isn't about to let them take root on his watch.
- 弗里克可不愿让他们在自己的眼皮子底下扎根
- But before acting, he seeks his boss' counsel.
- 在行动之前 他请示过他的老板
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