S01E05 内战+S01E06 腹地 故事笔记 @为什么会有牛仔? 内战之后,人们lived in rural poverty,需要粮食,缺衣少粮的现象在人口密集的东部尤其严重。 在中西部地区有大量buffalo,虽然印第安人视之为神圣之物,但是对美国人而言,这只是食物。 当时,为了从中西部把牛运输倒东部区,可以通过火车,但是火车只有一部分,德州有1000英里的路程无铁路。于是需要牛仔把牛buffalo和longhorn长角牛手动赶出德州直到遇到铁路。 牛仔中有差不多1/3是非洲裔,它们的常见道具是用colt45 手枪和套索(lasso)。 有人说,Abraham Lincoln 给了人们freedom,但是colt45手枪使得人人equal. 手枪是美国文化中intrinsic的一点,是美国的identity,它象征了美国的独立自足的精神。 We always had a pistol or a rifle. And I think it's part of "Don't try to tell me what to do". I'll fight off my enemies on my own." @中国人与当时美国的关系 当时的铁路修建过程中,使用了大量中国劳动力。 铁路修建也体现了美国精神,使出全身力量,使人人都认为不可能的事情经过艰辛的努力成为可能。
为了组装,人们先修了一个铁框架,铁框架是埃菲尔修建的。Liberty's enormous iron skeleton. It's designed by Gustave Eiffel, who will build the famous Eiffel Tower in Paris.
评价卡耐基的成功:So many American stories of success are diligence, are perseverance, but there's an awful lot of luck involved, too. His timing couldn't have been better.
Selling tobacco seeds to foreigners is punishable by death.
If you want to know what the defining strength of America is, it is our people, our immigrant tradition, our bringing in cultures from all over the world.
That's pretty incredible.
Today more than 10% of all Americans can trace their ancestry back to Mayflower.
They make peace with the Pilgrims and will launch a surprise attack
From Jamestown, agriculture spreads across the South,
56 delegates from across the colonies gather at the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia. It's the first step on the road to American democracy.
Among them are John Adams, Patrick Henry, and a gentleman landowner from Virginia named George Washington.
S01E03 西进+S01E04 分裂 词汇笔记 outlaw The King of England has outlawed any Western expansion.
have history有过节 Daniel Boone and the Shawnee have history. Only the year before, they kidnapped his eldest son.
encapsulate If there is one episode that encapsulates the American spirit, I think it is probably the move West.
try and fail
boom Villages along the canal boom into dynamic cities. New York City becomes a boomtown.
labor-intensive There are 30 species of cotton worldwide. Growing it's no problem, but processing the fiber before it can be spun into cloth is labor-intensive, especially separating the seeds.
explode The concept of mass production using a machine just exploded everywhere.
witch hunt The search for runaway slaves had become a witch hunt.
Pittsburgh transforms from a sleepy town to the industrial heart of the nation.
Building skyscrapers is the nearest peacetime equivalent of war.建造摩天大楼是和平时代没有硝烟的战争
S01E09萧条+ S01E10二战+S01E11超级大国+S01E12黄金时代 词汇笔记 the bank has only kept itself afloat by cooking the books这家银行只有靠做假账来维持
the Bank of United States has collapsed, Confidence in US banks disintegrates. 合众国银行倒闭,人们的信心土崩瓦解。
Hoover Dam胡佛大坝(其实,罗马人2000年前就学会了使用混凝土。)
The tunnels can only be dug when the river is low. 隧道只能在枯水季节挖掘
This is the 1930s' equivalent of putting a man on the moon. 这座大坝可谓20世纪30年代的"登月"计划。
it gave us all a sense of the possible. 让我们相信一切皆有可能
Hoover Dam还促进了Las Vegas的繁荣,工人们在高危险的工作之后去赌城娱乐放松。
Dust Storm 沙尘暴, 1934年,严重的沙尘暴席卷美国。
The American spirit is forged in the fires of the Great Depression.
We are pioneers...and trailblazers.
To fly around this open vehicle at top speed was just something every American boy wanted to grow up to do.
atomic bomb原子弹 Stars and Strips星条旗
stare up at the heavens仰望苍穹 But for a few minutes one summer night, we all stood and stared up at the heavens.
It’s a different story.这是个大相径庭的故事。
The Erie Canal is America's next great conveyor belt of commerce. It links the Eastern sea board to the Great lakes 伊利运河成为美国的贸易大传送带,伊利运河把东部沿海地区和五大湖区连结起来
Communist spies even infiltrate the Manhattan Project. 打入
We have this ideal of American life我们认为理想的美国生活 as the two parents, two children就是父母和两个孩子 brand new gleaming American cars with fins开着闪闪发亮的新车,想去哪里就去哪里 the size of Pennsylvania coming off the rear of it将宾夕法尼亚远远抛在后面。
20万英里的铁轨从险峻的地形中喷薄而出200,000 miles of track came out of hostile terrain. There is no going back.没有退路