美国国力已达到鼎盛时期 America is at the height of its power.
各种创新和发明把这个国家带入了 Innovation and invention will define
一个科技日新月异社会空前繁荣的新时代 a new era of prosperity and technological wonder.
一项发明以及随之而来的 One invention will change the world.
历史上最大规模的通讯革命 Along with the biggest communications revolution
将改变世界 ever seen.
旧的威胁逐渐淡去 And while old threats fade,
新的挑战将使美国经历前所未有的考验 new challenges will test America as never before.
我们是前锋 也是先驱 we are pioneers and trailblazers.
我们为自由而战 We fight for freedom.
我们将梦想付诸现实 We transform our dreams into the truth.
我们的奋斗将换来一个国家的新生 Our struggles will become a nation.
美国: 我们的故事
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70年代的美国 在国际上 The 1970s, America is locked in
黄金时代
陷于与另一个超级大国:苏联的对峙 a gloabal standoff with another superpower, the Soviet Union.
冷战时期 It's the Cold War.
共产主义与资本主义 Communism and capitalism
为争夺意识形态霸主地位而冲突不断 clash in an ideological battle for supremacy.
对许多人而言 这个时期充满了恐惧和不确定性 For many, it's an era of fear and uncertainty.
核梦魇 Nuclear nightmares.
到冷战结束时 By the end of the Cold War,
两国所囤积的爆炸性武器 the rival countries will amass enough explosive firepower
足以摧毁100万个广岛 for over a million Hiroshimas.
冷战还存在另一个战场 太空竞赛 But the Cold War has another battlefield: the Space Race.
当美国人率先将人类送上月球的时候 And when America claimed the prize by putting man on the moon,
那个时代标志性的科技成果也日渐成熟 a technology that will define the era comes of age.
电视 Television.
1亿8千5百万美国人共同守候在电视机前 185 Million Americans are united in front of their TV sets.
现在再回看当时的影像 Looking back at those images now,
布莱恩·威廉斯 [NBC晚间新闻主播]
我们还是会惊叹图像如此清晰 we marveled at the clarity of the picture.
这可是从月球上传回来的实时画面啊 This was live from the moon, after all!
科技的高度发展 令人叹为观止 It was the height of technology and we marveled at it.
1940年 整个美国只有几千台电视 In 1940, there are just a few thousand TV sets in the whole country..
到1970年 这个数字超过了6000万 By 1970, there are over 60 million.
电视将成为塑造新时代的决定性角色 TV will play a defining role in shaping a new era.
美国一向热衷于采用新科技 America has always tried to adopt new technologies.
大家今天司空见惯的电视 Television, as we know it today,
鲍勃·鲁兹 [前通用汽车公司副总裁]
当初设想之时 这一定是个疯狂的主意 I mean, it was considered, think about this crazy idea.
我们可以向美国任何地方传送动态的影像 We can send moving images to any place in the United States.
但美国的辉煌 But America's been built
正是源于科技发展与革新 on technological innovation and invention
从蒸汽船和六发左轮手枪 到人手一辆的汽车 From steam boats and six-guns to automobiles for everyone.
科技引领他们征服着这片大陆 It's conquered a continent with technology.
然而纵观美国发展历史 But throughout the nation's history,
真正起着决定性作用的是通讯技术的发展 it is communications technology that played a defining role.
1865年 1865,
电报帮助亚伯拉罕·林肯率领的北方军 the telegraph help its President Abraham Lincoln
在内战中取胜 win the war for the North.
他几乎亲自掌控与指挥每一场战役 He virtually seize and can command every battle.
1945年 1945,
艾森豪威尔麾下的资深通讯专家大卫·沙诺夫 David Sarnoff, Eisenhower's most senior communications expert,
协助美国开发了电视机 helped develop television for America.
美国无线电公司 大卫·沙诺夫研究中心 RCA实验区
到1950年 沙诺夫创立了 By 1950, Sarnoff creates
世界上最大的电视广播网之一 one of the biggest TV broadcast networks in the world.
NBC 国家广播公司
电视不仅是一种新的娱乐方式 TV may be a new form of entertainment,
更是当时最强大的通讯设备 but it's also the most powerful communications device in existence.
沙诺夫意识到 Sarnoff recognized that
电视将成为一股强大的力量 there was going to be awesome power.
阿伦·索尔金 [剧作家]
但随之而来的 And that, with that awesome power--
将是更为重大的责任 was going to come awesome responsibility.
到1970年 美国公众收看电视的数量 By 1970, the American public is watching more television
超过了所有其他国家 than any nation on earth.
人们每天在电视前的时间均不下5小时 Over five hours a day for every man, woman and child.
电视新闻节目的数量 There are more TV news programs
也远超其他国家 than any country in the world.
七成以上的成年人 Over 70% of the adult population
每晚都收看电视新闻 watch the television news every evening.
而当登月实况在电视上播出时 And when pictures of the moon landings are broadcast live,
这已不仅是技术上的成功 it isn't just a technological success,
而更象征着冷战中的胜利 it is a symbolic victory in the Cold War.
但有场真正的战争 其实更加性命攸关 But there's a real war closer to American lives.
越南战争 Vietnam.
美国深陷东南亚的一场鏖战 A bitter conflict in Southeast Asia.
美国惧怕共产主义风暴席卷这一地区 America fears communism will sweep the region
想要阻止这一态势 and wants to stop its influence.
但强大的美军与先进的武器 But the U.S. Military and all its technology
却终不敌背水一战的游击队 comes up hard against determined guerrilla movements.
为这场战争 And the war is being fought
美国征召了几十万年轻士兵 by hundreds of thousands of drafted young Americans.
我们召集了大量刚满18岁的孩子 We ask so much of our 18-year-olds
跋涉到一个无异于野生丛林的陌生国度 to go over to a foreign land, the jungle no less
与当地游击队作战 他们熟悉地形 and fight gorillas who are home on their turf
并且对外来入侵非常反感 and don't like at all the invading army.
参加越战的这代人 The generation that is fighting the Vietnam war
正是婴儿潮一代 are the baby boomers.
也是数量最为庞大的一代 The biggest ever American generation.
逾五千万美国新生儿在战后15年间诞生 Over 50 million new Americans born in 15 postwar years.
这数量庞大的一代人 This huge generation are
不同于以往的任何一代 unlike any Americans who have come before,
他们对于社会的态度和影响 and their influence and attitude toward society
注定将改变整个美国的面貌 are destined to change the face of America.
60年代这代人的改变是必然的 The 1960s were inevitable.
最伟大的一代[二战中的一代] The greatest generation came home
固守着人生价值的信念凯旋 with fixed idea of what life should be about,
汤姆·布罗考 [原NBC新闻主播]
他们忙着从战争的阴霾中走出 And they were so busy putting their own lives back together again
回归原来的生活 in a traditional fashion
根本无暇顾及下一代 that they weren't paying attention to
细微而敏感的心理变化 the changing sensibilities of their children.
美国每10到15年就会发生一次蜕变 America in a way reinvents itself every 10 or 15 years.
而这种蜕变 And that reinvention is
往往是被上一代人所恐惧与排斥的 always feared by the generation that came before.
1969年6月 June 1969,
纽约州北部 upstate New York.
伍德斯托克音乐节 Woodstock.
这原本是一场容纳10万人的周末音乐会 A weekend concert for over 100,000 ticket-hoders,
却挤满了近50万婴儿潮一代的乐迷 was over run by nearly half million baby boomers.
还有100万在四周守候 Over a million more tried to get in.
这是世界范围内空前盛大的音乐节 It is the world's biggest ever music festival
并成为了婴儿潮一代年轻人的交际盛会 and become the boomer's coming out party,
标志着美国新一代成为了社会的主流 a signal to America of the generational change taking place.
我们原本 刻板拘泥 Coming from the society culture
一本正经的社会文化 that was fairly buttoned up and prim and proper
蒂姆·甘 [时尚顾问]
突然间闯入了伍德斯托克音乐节 to one that suddenly was what we had Woodstock.
闯入了嬉皮士 We had hippiedom.
闯入了自由性爱 We had free love.
婴儿潮这代人 深深地影响了 Baby bombers had a huge tremendous impact
玛格丽特·周 [喜剧演员]
我们对世界的看法 对社会的看法 on how we view the world and how we view society.
然而他们反抗的 But the baby boomers aren't just rebeling
并不仅仅是其父辈的价值观 against their parents' values.
他们开始试图用街头游行的方式 People begin to attempt to affect from the streets
比弗利·盖奇 [耶鲁大学]
向对外政策的最高制定者们施压 the highest levels of foreign policy.
美军立即撤出印度支那
婴儿潮的一代人想要越战结束 The baby boomers want an end to the Vietnam war,
并在街上游行抗议示威 and they take their protest to the street.
为自己的信仰挺身而出 The willingness to stand up for what you believe in,
进行大规模的示威游行 in mass demonstrations of revolt,
梅丽尔·斯特里普 [著名女演员 奥斯卡影后]
这才是真正的美国精神 that's very American.
在越战中 人们不愿违背自己的意愿 In the Vietnam war, people were unwilling to die,
让我们的士兵回家
为他们并不支持的战争卖命 for something they didn't believe in.
"反抗"是美国民族性格上深深的烙印 Protest is deep in the American character.
清教徒对旧世界及宗教迫害的反抗 The pilgrims against the old world and religious persecution.
殖民地对宗主国及其苛捐杂税的反抗 The colonies against the British and their taxes.
弗雷德里克·道格拉斯和哈莉特·塔布曼对奴隶制的反抗 Frederick Douglas and Harriet Tubman against slavery..
20世纪70年代 1970s.
数以千计的反越战抗议游行相继爆发 There have been thousands of anti-Vietnam war protests.
俄亥俄州 肯特州立大学 Kent State University, Ohio.
国民警卫队被调往镇压游行的500名学生 The National Guard are ordered in to control 500 protesting students.
电视转播着这一切 Television is here watching.
4名学生中弹身亡 Four students are shot dead..
正是电视转播将画面传入千家万户 I think that that drove it home for a lot of Americans,
观众得以直击现场 to see on their television,
这使得大众群情激昂 义愤填膺 and to have this mass of people who felt so passionately about it.
美国人相信 眼见为实 The images. You know, America is a very visual country.
珍妮特·沃尔斯 [著名作家]
越战期间首次实现了战事的电视转播 And because Vietnam is the first televised war,
每一场战役 伤亡情况都有新闻报道 battles and casualty lists are daily news events.
电视 将血淋淋的战争 Television brings the reality of the war
展现在每个人眼前 into the nation's living rooms.
就如同百年前 内战战地摄影师 Just as hundred years ago Civil War photographer
揭露了战争的恐怖一般 revealed the true horror of war,
如今 电视新闻节目开始颠复整个国家 now TV news images begin to turn the nation.
我们已经损失了5万馀士兵 We had already lost over 50,000 soldiers,
伤员更是不计其数 many more wounded than that.
戴维·鲍尔达奇 [犯罪推理小说作家]
我想多数美国人已经意识到越战的无望 I think most Americans realized Vietnam was a hopeless cause.
在越战中的投弹数量超过了整个二战 More bombs than were droped in the whole World War II.
数千亿美元白白消耗 Hundreds of billions of dollars.
但保留在大多数美国人记忆中的 But what the most Americans remember
是他们在电视中看到的画面 are the pictures they see on their TV sets.
目睹着西贡[今胡志明市]的残兵爬上直升机 Watching people in Sigon clinging to helicopters
丹尼尔·席尔瓦 [著名作家]
落荒而逃 as we left in disgrace.
这是一幅极不符合美国信念的画面 This is a profoundly unAmerican notion.
1975年 1975,
越战终于结束了 the Vietnam War is finally over.
越南退伍军人
从多重意义上来讲 正是反战运动 In many ways it really was the anti-war movement
改变了后世对于越战的印象 on the ground that shaped our story of Vietnam
某种程度上 反战运动也是对战争的真实体验 and to some degree the actual experience of the war.
对于许多婴儿潮时期出生的人来说 For many of the baby boomers,
抗议和反叛是为了更为远大的目标 the protest and rebellion has a wider aim:
即创造一种全新的生活方式 to create a completely new way of life.
你可以反抗父母 反抗社会 You could rebel against your parents and rebel against society
去创造属于你自己的乌托邦 while creating your own utopia,
这是典型的60年代的理想 this is a very 60s ideal.
打造一片可以放飞梦想的乐土 Creating a land where you can live your dreams
这正是美国性格的一部分 is part of the American character.
同时也是清教徒来到美国的动力 The reason that the pilgrims came to America.
以及摩门拓荒者西进的原因 Why Mormon pioneers headed west.
婴儿潮的一代并非在找寻新的大陆 The baby boomers aren't looking for a new land.
而是想改变美国社会 They want to change American society,
真正的革命是由伟大的爱来引导的
释放所有政治犯 真理是囚禁不了的
使其变得更加公平 make it a fairer place.
60年代末70年代初 As the 60s turn into the 70s,
黑人行动主义 原住民土地所有权 black activism, native American land rights,
释放黑豹党人
同性恋权利 生态保护及女权主义 gay rights, ecology and feminism
姐妹们联合起来 与压迫我们的制度作斗争
在游行的压力下被一一提上日程 burst on to the agenda and the streets.
婴儿潮一代重塑着美国社会 The baby boom generation shaped America,
职场中为女性争取平等权利的运动 the movement for equality for women in the workplace
随之发起 certainly came out of that.
美国历史中的这一时期 There is a tiny moment in American history
让美国女性重拾自信 gave a lot of confidence to American women,
安妮特·戈登·里德 [罗格斯大学历史学教授]
自由就是自由 Freedom is freedom.
梅莉莎·埃瑟里奇 [歌手 作曲家]
无论男女都是平等的 All men and women are created equal.
我之前对水门事件一无所知 I had no prior knowledge of the Watergate break-in.
我既未参与 I neither took part in
也对随后的掩饰行为毫不知情 nor knew about any of the subsequent cover-up activities..
1974年 尼克松总统牵涉到 1974, President Nixon is implicated in the break in
水门大厦
民主党全国委员会
闯入其政敌总部并安装窃听设备的事件中 and the bugging of his political rivals headquarters.
他被指控掩盖罪行 He's accused of covering up the crime.
美国联邦法院
国会启动了弹劾程序 Congress starts an impeachment process
电视对此进行了现场直播 which transmits live on television.
国家的最高首脑 Holders of the highest offices in the land
面对着数百万观众接受质询 are subjected to a grilling watched by millions.
尼克松政府因遭逢电视时代而一败涂地 The Nixon administration hits the TV age and losses,
滚出去
尽管在之前的美国历史中也存在着丑闻 There had been scandals previously in American history,
H.W.布兰茨 [德克萨斯大学教授]
但却从未像水门事件这样 but none that unfolded on television,
在电视上迅速曝光 with the immediacy of the Watergate Scandal.
水门丑闻所表现的 What was revealed by the Watergate Scandal
官场腐败程度 was a level of internal corruption,
欺骗程度 a level of deception
与对美国民主的亵渎 and a real violation of American democracy
当时就连美国政论家 that even critics of the American government
都绝对想象不到 up to that point simply hadn't imagined.
对于大多数人而言 It was the last nail in the coffin you might say of,
戴维·M·肯尼迪 [斯坦福大学历史学教授]
这是压垮公众信念的最后一根稻草 for many, many people of Americans confidence in their own society.
我将在明天中午辞去总统之职 I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.
史上唯一一位在任上辞职的总统 The only president ever to resign the office.
85%的美国家庭通过电视直播收看其辞职演说 His speech watched live by 85% of all American households.
媒体与电视的自由显示了其真正的力量 Freedom of the press and TV showing their true power.
媒体在水门事件中的力量 表明 I mean, the power of Watergate is saying
索莱达·奥布莱恩 [CNN首席主持人]
我们需要自由媒体 you need a free press.
如果没有自由的媒体 Because there are some things that you will not learn
那么有些事情我们将永远不得而知 if you do not have a free press.
电视见证了一位总统的下台 While television proves the downfall of one President,
将美国推向危机 throws America into crisis,
然而另一位总统将学会利用它 another will learn to use this new technology
重塑美国人的信心 将美国带入新纪元 to rebuild American confidence and usher in a new era.
70年代末80年代初 As the 70s turn into the 80s
特拉华的美国汽车工人联合会的工人亟需工作
美国陷入困境 America feels bruised.
中东石油危机 The Middle East oil crisis.
对不起 没油了 油泵已关
美国束手无策
在伊朗的美国人质事件 American hostages in Iran.
调查表明 仅剩22%的美国民众信任政府 Surveys show only 22% of Americans trust the government.
我们需要工作 恳请政府与国会马上行动起来
失业和通货膨胀 Unemployment and inflation
双双达到大萧条以来的最高水平 are both at the highest levels since the Great Depression.
美国曾经历过经济低谷 America has endured economic downtimes before.
上世纪30年代 In the 1930s,
罗斯福采用积极的财政政策 Roosevelt tries to bring America out of its Great Depression
将美国带出大萧条的阴霾 with government spending in new initiatives.
同时 他充分利用了新媒体的力量 But he also harnesses the power of a new media--
用广播直接传播到全国 radio-- to speak directly to the nation.
富兰克林·罗斯福拥有神奇的魔力 Franklin Roosevelt had this truly mysterious capacity
他在广播中的讲话 to speak through the radio in a way that
不仅能吸引民众的注意 还能激发他们的感情 compelled not just the attention but the affection of
戴维·M·肯尼迪 [斯坦福大学]
影响千百万民众 millions upon millions of his countrymen.
半个世纪之后 Now half a century later,
一位新总统利用电视 a new President uses television
重建整个国家的信心 in his attempt to restore the nation's confidence.
我们怎能不信任我们伟大的祖国 How can we not believe in the greatness of America.
又怎能不去行正义和必要之事 How can we not do what is right and needed
去保护这世间最后的希望 to preserve this last best hope of man on earth.
他被称为伟大的沟通者 His nick name was the great communicator.
他的那种清晰的表达方式 He was able to articulate in a way
戴维·鲍尔达奇 [犯罪推理小说作家]
能让人像认同自己美国人身份一样 认同他 that many people would accept as being innately American.
H.W.布兰茨 [德克萨斯大学教授]
美国人其实愿意相信 Americans wanted to believe
他们的国家是美好而又强大的 that their country was good and strong.
里根向他们肯定 "是的 我们美好而强大" And Reagan spoke to them in a voice that said "Yes, we are".
同胞们 My fellow citizens,
今晚我想和大家谈谈我们的未来 I would like to speak to you tonight about our future,
谈谈一项有历史意义的伟大努力 about a great historic effort
让"自由 公平 希望"这三个词 对每位美国公民 to give the words "freedom", "fairness" and "hope" new meaning and power
都有新意义和新力量 for every man and woman in America.
具体来说 我想谈谈税务的问题 Specificly I want to talk about taxes.
上世纪80年代是美国经济繁荣的新时代 The 1980s appear to be a new era of American financial prosperity.
低利率和宽松的信贷政策的盛行 Low interest rates and the easy credit flows
引领经济繁荣复苏 lead a bussiness boom.
在这十馀年间 Over the course of the decade,
华尔街市场交易屡创新高 trading on Wall Street markets breaks records,
道琼斯指数飙升了超过200个百分点 the Dow Jones Index rises more than 200 percent.
80年代末 By the 1980s,
每年便有十万美国人跨入百万富翁的行列 100,000 Americans become millionaires every year.
美国也曾历经过繁荣 There have been boom times before.
石油热带来了廉价汽油 实现了汽车普及 The oil rush leads to cheap gasoline and cars for the masses.
廉价钢铁促进了建筑业的繁荣 And cheap steel leads to a construction boom,
城市迅速发展起来 builds new cities.
80年代的美国 Now in 1980s America,
低息贷款刺激了消费 cheap credit creates a boom in consumers.
信用卡是这个时期的象征 The credit card is the symbol of the decade.
开发于1958年 Invented in 1958,
一度是有钱人的专利 如今普罗大众也可以拥有 once reserved for the wealthy, now it's democratized.
到1989年 By 1989,
持有信用卡的美国人比选民还多 more Americans have credit cards than vote in elections.
80年代 持卡人的借贷额增长了五倍 The 80's see cardholders increase their debt by a factor of five.
到80年代末 美国人 By the end of the decade, Americans are spending
每年刷卡消费近2500亿美元 nearly a quarter of a trillion dollars on their credit cards every year.
80年代 During the 80s,
购物中心的数量甚至比高中学校的数量还多 the number of shopping malls surpasses the number of high schools.
快餐店的数量增加了78% There's a 78% increase in fast-food stores.
十年间 餐饮行业消费额翻了一番 Spending on restaurant food more than doubles
达到2500多亿美元 to over 250 billion dollars in decade.
那十年可能是美国史上 During that decade we probably became
最为物欲横流的时期 more materialistic than we ever had before.
消费创下了历史新高 Consumption was off the charts.
但消费者真正感兴趣的是科技 But what consumers really want is technology,
最新的家用电器 the latest home appliances,
最新的娱乐技术 the latest entertainment technology.
1980年时只有200万台录像机 There are barely 2 million VCRs in 1980.
到了1990年 却达到6300多万台 Over 63 million by 1990.
从最初只有区区几千部手机 From a few thousand cell phones,
到80年代末 发展到超过500万部 by the end of the decade there are over 5 million.
你的第一把折叠刀 Your first pocket knife,
詹姆斯·梅格斯 [《大众机械》杂志总编]
你的第一辆自行车 your first bicycle,
你的第一辆汽车 your first car,
如今 你的第一部手机 today, you know, your first cell phone,
你的第一台手提电脑 your first laptop,
这些都标志着你掌控了自己的世界 all these are badges of gaining control over your world,
标志着你有能力生活得更好 of having, being able to live life better
因为你有更先进的工具和使用它们的技术 because you have a better tool, and the skill to use it.
这让美国人深深地为之心驰神往 That's something that's deeply appealing to the American psyche.
不过 许多消费品的技术进步 But many of these consumer technology advances are developed
都直接得益于有史以来最大的开支狂潮: directly from the biggest spending spree of all:
太空竞赛 the Space Race.
与苏联的冷战状态仍然处在白热化阶段 The Cold War with the Soviet Union is still going strong.
紧张态势蔓延全球 乃至太空 Laying out across the globe and the final frontier.
到冷战结束时 美国共花费了七万亿美元 By the end of the Cold War, 7 trillion dollars has been spent
只为了领先于它的共产主义对手 keeping America ahead of her communist rival.
竞争的结果就是 The result,
造就了史上最复杂最大胆的航天器: one of the most sophisticated and daring spacecraft ever built:
航天飞机 The space shuttle.
航天飞机真是个非常美妙的想法 The space shuttle was a beautiful idea.
非常精致的飞船 It was an elegant craft,
更高效 更经济 that would be more efficient, more economical
因为它可以像飞机那样起飞着陆并重复使用 because it could take off and land and be reuseable.
发射 ... and lift off.
航天飞机助长了美国的消费热潮 The shuttle adds to America's consumer boom.
它最重要的功能之一 One of its primary functions
是搭载通信卫星 is to launch communication satellites,
用来助涨美国人日益滋长的 helping expand America's ever growing appetite
对娱乐 通信 电话和全球定位系统的需求 for entertainment, communications, telephones and GPS.
而航天飞机上使用的技术 And the technology that goes into the shuttle
也造福了地面上的人类 also comes back to earth.
手机 水质净化 Cell phones, water purification,
飞机起落架 消防设备 airplane landing gear, fire fighting equipment.
无线电动工具 医疗技术 Cordless power tools, medical tech,
甚至滑雪服 and even ski wear.
这一切都得益于航天飞机计划 All benefited from the shuttle program.
许多人看来 航天飞机是美国的象征 For many, the shuttle is symbolic of the American story.
它就像是自行应验的预言之一 It's like one of those self-fulfilling prophecies.
里克·哈里森 [金银典当]
也就是说 You know,
我们为了更美好的未来努力 let's work for a better future.
我们就会得到美好的未来 we'll get the better future.
迈克尔·道格拉斯 [著名演员]
谈到拓荒精神 Talk about the frontier spirit,
它无关成败荣辱 it's not a question of succeeding or failure
而是不断壮大 令人倍受鼓舞 it's just continuous growth, which is really inspirational.
航天飞机第25次出航 25th space shuttle mission...
但是 整个国家对技术的信奉 But the nation's faith in technology
即将遭到沉重的一击 is about to receive a blow.
航天飞机开启了美国的新纪元 The shuttle is a new era for America.
航天时代的技术带动着国家经济的发展 Space-age technology is powering the country forward.
这个国家建立在创新之上 The nation's been built on innovation.
新技术带来了进步 财富和扩张 New technology create progress, wealth, expansion.
随着斧子的改进 As axes improve,
森林以惊人的速度被开垦 forests can be cleared at a greater rate.
新的军事技术可以赢得战争 A new military technology wins wars,
建立国家 makes nations.
纵观我们的历史 Throughout our history,
每一项技术进步都意味着变革 every one of these technologies has been transformative in a way
詹姆斯·梅格斯 [《大众机械》总编辑]
改变了经济 改变了生活 that has changed economies, it's changed lives,
也改变了居住模式 it's changed settlement patterns.
是像安德鲁·卡内基这样的实业家 It takes entrepreneurs like Andrew Carnegie.
他采用新的钢铁生产技术 He takes new steel production techniques
实现了钢的大规模生产 and supersizes them to produce vast quantities
以此为原料 建设起了伟大的美国城市 of the raw materials that build the great American city.
还有像穆赫兰这样的工程天才 And engineering geniuses like Mulholland,
他修建的长达200英里的洛杉矶引水渠 his 200 mile L.A Aqueduct
使得这座城市从荒芜之地崛起 allows the city to grow from the desparate.
但进步往往是以人的牺牲为代价的 But progress often carries a human cost.
1825年 1825,
建造连通五大湖区和纽约的伊利运河 building the Erie Canal to connect the Great Lakes to New York City
夺去了近千条生命 claims nearly 1,000 lives.
1865年 修建横贯东西的大铁路 1865, the transcontinental railroad,
近两千人丧生 almost 2000 lives.
19世纪末20世纪初 At the turn of the century,
每五名男性中就有两名 two out of every five men
为了建设美国现代都市的摩天楼而丧命或致残 died or are disabled building the skyscrapers of America's new cities.
三 二 一 发射 Three, two, one. And lift off.
如今航天飞机 Now the space shuttle
是美国科技新纪元的登峰造极之作 is the pinnacle of a new era of American technology.
1986年 是机组最繁忙的一年 1986 is to be the fleet's busiest year.
被选中的挑战者号机组人员 The crew of the Challenger shuttle
正是现代美国社会的缩影 is chosen to represent cross-section of modern America.
他们来自不同种族 背景 职业 Different races, backgrounds, professions.
我们总有这样的想法 And the idea always was
巴兹·奥尔德林 [实现人类首次登月的阿波罗11号宇航员 踏上月球第二人]
能否让更多人也来参与 "Can we begin to open this up somehow to more people
而不只是受过高度训练的宇航员 than just highly trained astronauts."
航天梦成了每个美国人都触手可及的梦想 The dream of space flight is extending to everyday Americans.
这架航天飞机被誉为最为安全便捷的太空飞船 The shuttle is seen as an easy safe route to the final frontier.
但在1986年1月28日 But on January 28, 1986,
起飞后仅仅73秒 just 73 seconds after it takes off,
挑战者号便发生了爆炸 全国直播 Challenger explodes, live on national television.
很明显 过了好几秒 You could see that it took the audience a few seconds
观众才明白他们眼前发生了什么 to realize what they were seeing,
因为这真的难以理解 because it was so hard to interpret.
7条生命无一幸免 Seven lives lost.
悲剧就在眨眼之间发生 这怎么可能 All of a sudden it was like "How could that have happened?"
戴维·鲍尔达奇 [犯罪推理小说作家]
国家航空航天局 I mean, NASA, the United States,
我们美国在这一领域领先全球 we're like the best in the world at this.
到底发生了什么 What happened?
挑战者号全速下坠 Challenger, go with throttle up.
这好似当头一棒 It was like a blow to the gut of the nation.
失败在所难免 And we do fail at times,
但最严峻的考验来自 but the greatest test comes from
你意识到并接受失败之后所作出的选择 what happens after you realize and accept the fact that you fail.
是畏缩不前 Do you go crawl into a corner
从此再也无所作为 and never do anything again,
还是重整旗鼓 or do you get back up,
从哪里跌倒就从哪里爬起来 dust yourself off and move forward ?
挑战号事件发生仅3年后 冷战结束了 Just three years after Challenger, the Cold War is over.
太空竞赛也随之结束 So is the space race.
一代人曾梦想着他们的未来将移向太空 While one generation has dreamed of their future in outer space,
下一代人则将要在新的疆域开创他们的未来 the next will create theirs on a new frontier:
网络空间 Cyberspace.
个人 企业的创意天马行空 Individual, entrepreneurial ideas, run wild.
索莱达·奥布莱恩 [CNN首席主持人]
那就是美国精神 And that really is the American spirit.
绞尽脑汁想出 And it's a way to figure out
能够物尽其用的办法 how to fully utilize something that's out there.
1873年 在餐桌上 In 1873, on his kitchen table,
一位伊利诺伊州的农民 约瑟夫·格利登 an Illinois farmer called Joseph Gliden
发明了一样令美国改头换面的东西 invents something that changes the face of America:
铁丝网 Barbed wire.
不到十年 超过50万英里的铁丝网 Within ten years, over half a million miles of barbeded wire
将中西部10亿英亩的平原层层围住 parcels up a billion acres of the Midwest
将开放的牧场变成了美国的粮仓 and turns open prairie into the breadbasket of America.
1879年 托马斯·爱迪生发明了电灯 1879, Thomas Edison invents the electric light bulb.
它将催生出其他上千件专利 It will generate a further 1,000 patents.
他还创立了第一个商用电力输送网 But he also creates the first commercial power grid.
两年内 他的发电厂可为5000只灯泡提供电力 Within two years, he sets up 5,000 power plants.
接下来的五年 他的电力网扩大到 In five more, he creates a further
能为遍布全国的12万7千只灯泡提供电力 127,000 electric light and power across the nation.
我们是一个企业家的国度 We're a nation of entrepreneurs.
拥有令人难以置信的企业家精神 We have this incredible entrepreneurial spirit.
不过美国19世纪的一项发明 But one 19th century American invention
引入的理念塑造了我们21世纪的世界 introduces an idea that will shape our 21st century World.
1850年 In 1850,
洛威尔纺织厂通过穿孔卡实现了自动化 the Lowell cotton mills are automated with paper punch cards.
卡上的孔引导织布机 The holes in the cards instruct the loom
使用不同颜色的线 to use different coloured threads,
决定是否使用某种颜色的线 switching one color on, one color off.
这就是二进制码 It's binary code
同时也是未来计算机革命的关键 and the key to the future computer revolution.
最初计算机看起来一点不像技术革命 At first, computers don't seem like a revolution.
20世纪40年代 In the 1940s,
一台拥有如今个人电脑基本功能的计算机 a single computer with the power of a basic PC today
要占用一辆灰狗长途巴士那么大的空间 could be the size of a Greyhound bus,
且需要的电力足以支持一座小镇 and needs the same amount of power as a small town.
许多人认为 Many people believe that
这些计算机能卖出几台就不错了 only a few computers will ever be sold.
但随后 它们开始显示自己强大的功能 But then they start to reveal their power.
60年代 大学利用计算机 In the '60s computers are used by universities
完成此前难以想象的大量运算 to achieve previously unthinkable calculations.
从70年代起 And from the 1970s onwards,
公司用计算机替代了数以千计的文职人员 corporations use them to replace thousands of manual clerks.
冷战期间无度的挥霍 为计算机发展提供了资金 Cold War superspending helps fund computer development,
帮助很多像IBM这样的公司发展壮大 helping companies like IBM to become massive corporations.
但发起下一波计算机革命的 But it's not corporations or the government
既不是公司也不是政府 that create the next computer revolution.
1976年 在加利福尼亚北部的一间车库 1976, a garage in Northern California.
两名电脑爱好者 Two computer hobbyists,
史蒂夫·乔布斯和史蒂夫·沃兹涅克 Steve Jobs and Steve Wosneak
发明了世界上首台实用的个人电脑 create the world's first practical personal computer.
数字革命的先驱 The original kind of pioneers of the digital revolution.
史蒂文·约翰逊 [著名作家]
某种意义上 他们是在 In a sense, they were building computers
为自己 为像他们一样的普通人设计计算机 for themselves, for ordinary people like them.
这些普通人并不特别富裕 They weren't particularly wealthy.
也不在大公司工作 They weren't working for large organizations
他们不过是普通的工人 They just were tinkers.
很快竞争者的机器也竞相面世 Soon competitors bring out their own machines.
当IBM发布他们的个人电脑时 When IBM launched their PC,
竞争愈发激烈了 it ups the game.
计算机技术日新月异 Computers are changing fast.
鼠标随即出现了 Along came the mouse
屏幕上也有了图像 and along came pictures on the screen.
伍迪·诺里斯 [发明家]
那种竞争 正是创新的源泉 That kind of competition is really where innovation comes from.
1980年出品的苹果II 其计算能力 The apple II of 1980 has more computing power than
甚至超过了整个阿波罗登月计划使用的计算机 was used in the entire Apollo moon landing program.
个人电脑功能越来越强大 Personal computers become more powerful,
越来越风靡 more popular.
1980年只有30万台个人电脑 There are just 300,000 PCs in 1980.
到了1990年 却超过了6700万台 By 1990, there are over 67 million.
那一年 微软一家营业额就超过10亿美元 That year, Microsoft sales alone topped $1 billion.
不过计算机真正的力量还有待发掘 But the true power of computers is yet to be realized.
只有当电脑之间彼此连通之时 Only when they start to talk to each other,
计算机革命才算真正完成了 will the computing revolution be complete.
1969年 一场通信革命开始了 In 1969, a communication revolution begins.
四台电脑通过一条电话线建立通信 Four computers start talking to each other down a telephone line.
互联网诞生了 It's the birth of the Internet.
史蒂文·约翰逊 [著名作家]
在某种意义上 这就是我们国家的基因 In a sense, it's our kind of DNA as a country
试图搭上任何 to trying jump on whatever
新形式的通信技术的快车 new form of communication technology is there,
因为这对我们的祖先 because it was so essential
建设起如此幅员辽阔的国家至关重要 for our ancestors in building this large nation.
19世纪中叶 By the mid 19th century,
美国大陆广袤的距离被拉近了 the continent's vast distances shrink,
马车被铁路取而代之 the horse and wagon give way to the railroad.
与铁路一起普及的是电报 Along with the railroad spreads the telegraph,
那个时代的互联网 the Internet of its era.
一度需要数日甚至 Messages that once took days
数月将信息传至目的地 or even months to reach their destinations,
如今只需敲击按钮 信息就会沿着电缆传播 now travel down the wire at the tap of a button.
一位来自中西部的年轻铁路职员颇具远见卓识 One young railway clerk from the Midwest has a vision
清楚地意识到电报和铁路 of how the telegraph and railroads
将如何彻底改变商业运作的模式 could revolutionize the way we do business.
1900年 By 1900,
西尔斯邮购目录改变了美国人的购物和销售模式 the Series catalog transforms how Americans buy and sell.
一个世纪后 A century later,
互联网进一步推进了这场革命 the Internet takes this revolution one step further.
到2005年 By 2005,
将近两亿家庭拥有电脑并接入了互联网 almost 200 million homes have computers and internet access,
2009年 逾50亿美元的商品通过网络交易 with over 5 billion dollars of goods sold on-line in 2009.
索莱达·奥布莱恩 [CNN首席主持人]
你意识到仅仅是这种连通性的力量 You realize that just the power of this connectivity
就不可避免 势不可挡 难以置信 was unstoppable, overwhelming, incredible
有时甚至有点吓人 and scary at times.
从1969年发出第一封电子邮件起 From the first e-mail sent in 1969,
到2009年 全球一年共发出90万亿封电子邮件 by 2009, 90 trillion e-mails are sent worldwide,
每天2470亿封 247 billion every day.
吉米·威尔士 [维基百科创始人之一]
民主 自由 开放的精神 The spirit of liberty, of freedom, of openness,
是互联网的精髓所在 has been a really core part of the Internet
是某种基本的理念: and this sort of basic idea
每个人都应该能平等的使用这一新媒体 that every one should be able to participate equally in this new medium.
这个理念极具美国精神 It's a very American spirit of an idea.
它认为 每个人都该有获得知识的途径 This idea that everybody should have access to knowledge.
90年代的加州 And in 1990s California,
互联网的繁荣激起了新一轮的淘金热 the Internet boom sparks a second gold rush.
即使在淘金热一百年之后 Gold Rush mentality still existed
当硅谷崛起之时 这一心态仍然存在 over hundred years later when Silicon Valley got started.
H.W.布兰茨 [德克萨斯大学教授]
硅谷成功的秘诀在于 And the secret of Silicon Valley was
人们甘愿承担巨大的风险 the people were willing to take huge risks.
十年间 In ten years,
30万家高新技术公司如雨后春笋般涌现 30,000 new high tech companies launch.
硅谷在20世纪90年代 Silicon Valley creates
创造了近百万个新工作岗位 nearly a million new jobs in the 1990s.
1998年 风险投资者们 Venture capitalists inject
向高科技公司注入了超过1210亿美元的资金 over $121 billion dollars into high-tech companies in 1998.
但并非每一家网络企业都能赚得盆满钵满 But not every dotcom entrepreneur makes a fortune.
在硅谷文化里 In the Silicon Valley culture,
如果你有个好主意 但试过之后失败了 it's perfectly fine if you have a brilliant idea and
这完全没有关系 you try it and it doesn't work out,
大家都能接受 "这些主意并不都可行嘛" people accept that, "hey, you know they don't all work."
但如果你确实做得不错 But if you did good job at it,
你没准儿能有别的机会 you will probably get another chance.
2000年3月 网络泡沫破裂了 In March, 2000, the dotcom bubble bursts.
世界发生了巨变 The world is transformed.
尽管人们赚的钱没有达到他们的预期 While people didn't make as much money as they thought they were going to make,
不过却实现了人人联网 everybody got on-line.
整个国家都已被网络连通 And the country got wired and
从而非常迅速地用上这一新兴技术 embraced this new technology much faster
若是没有网络繁荣的话 这就很难做到 than it would have had there not been big boom.
就像淘金潮造就了加利福利亚州 So just as the gold rush kind of invented California,
我认为网络的繁荣 I think the Internet boom days
虽然并没有创造像当年那么多的财富 didn't make as many fortunes
但是它确实以一种全新的方式 but they did wire the whole country
把整个国家连在了一起 in a really transformative way.
但是在信息高速公路逐渐成熟之际 But as the information superhighway comes of age,
美国一觉醒来 发现又面临着新的敌手 America wakes up to a new and terrifying friend.
它真的就像是 It came quite literally
晴空中的一道霹雳 and metaphorically out of the clear blue sky.
来得毫无预兆 Nobody saw this coming.
那是美国历史上最黑暗的日子 It was the blackest day in American history.
威廉·博迪特 [美国海军陆战队一级军士长]
毫无疑问 No doubt about it.
有人说 Someone said,
"将军 您得把电视打开" " General, you need to turn on the television."
汤米·弗兰克斯将军 [前美国中央司令部总司令]
我打开了 我和全世界的人们一起 I did that and I watched along with the world
看着第二架飞机撞上另一座大楼 as the second jet hit the second tower.
2001年9月11日上午 On the morning of September 11th, 2001,
两架被基地组织的恐怖分子劫持的客机 two passenger planes hijacked by terrorists linked to al-Qaeda
撞上了纽约市的世贸中心大楼 crash into the World Trade Center towers in New York.
当灾难刚刚发生 When it first happened
而我刚刚意识到问题有多严重时 and I first realized how bad it was,
鲁道夫·W·朱利安尼 [前纽约市市长]
我愣了好一阵 才明白势态的严重性 it took a while to understand how bad it was,
然后就知道这是我们历史上最可怕的袭击 and I realized it was the worst attack in our history.
我记得我当时在想 "世界要发生巨变了 I remember thinking, "Well, the world is gonna change.
"我不知道会怎么变 但是变革不可避免" "I'm not sure how, but the world is gonna change."
34分钟后 34 minutes later,
第三架飞机 美国航空公司的77号航班 a third plane, American Airlines Flight 77,
撞上了五角大楼 hits the Pentagon.
10点03分 At 10:03, a fourth plane,
准备撞向国会大厦或者白宫的第四架飞机 believed to be heading for the Capitol or the White House
在机上乘客与劫机者激烈搏斗后 crashes near Shanksville, Pennsylvania
坠毁于宾夕法尼亚州的尚克斯维尔 after passengers on board take on the hijackers.
我们震惊了 我们愣住了 We were stunned. We were frozen.
我知道在我们的小区里 And I know in our small community
戴维·鲍尔达奇 [犯罪推理小说作家]
大家的那种无助与绝望的感觉 that same feeling of helplessness and hopelessness
蔓延到了整个美国 全国都是这样 was replicated out across the United States, coast to coast.
我们眼睁睁地看着火势蔓延 We watched while the fires developed.
太可怕了 It was a horrible event.
但是几乎没有人 起码我周围没有人 But almost no one, certainly no one around me
事先意识到整个双子楼已经岌岌可危 had any idea that the integrity of the entire towers was at risk.
10点28分 世贸中心大楼的北楼也倒塌了 At 10:28, the World Trade Center's North Tower also falls.
当时现场排着一长列救护车 And there was a line of ambulances
一直排到了西边高速公路 绵延不绝 up the West Side Highway, it just went on forever.
但是没人叫救护车 也没人走出来 And they never called the ambulances and nobody ever came.
过了一会儿我们才开始意识到 And after a while we began to realize like
"哦天啊 无人生还" "Oh, my God, there aren't survivors."
据称 "9·11"袭击造成了纽约 The 9/11 attacks claim almost 3,000 lives in New York,
宾夕法尼亚和华盛顿特区近3000人丧生 Pennsylvania and Washington D.C.
走过第六大道的人们满脸惊恐 People would walk up Sixth Avenue, completely shell-shocked,
他们的身上沾满白灰 and they would be covered in white dust
因为双子楼刚刚在他们身边倒塌 because the towers had just fallen around them.
"9.11"事件被称作当代的珍珠港事件 People call 9/11 our generation's Pearl Harbor.
同样是被一群不知从何而来的敌人袭击 It was an attack by enemy that no one really saw coming.
同样是毁灭性的 It was devastating.
这几乎可以看做是 This was seen almost as a declaration of war
基地组织和国际极端主义者 by Al-Qaeda and transnational extremists
戴维·H·彼得雷乌斯将军 [美国中央司令部 指挥官]
在美国本土上的战争宣言 on the American homeland.
但是对美国国土的这一可怕袭击 But the worst attack on American soil
却极大地唤醒了这个国家 serves to galvanize the nation.
我认为恐怖分子袭击我们的原因有两条 I believe the terrorists attacked us for two reasons:
杀掉我们的人 摧毁我们的意志 to kill a lot of people and to kill our spirit.
他们确实害死了不少人 And they did kill a lot of people,
但却没有摧毁我们的意志 but they didn't kill our spirit.
人们在处理这一事件的时候 People displayed very brave attitude
表现出了极大的勇气 in the way they dealt with it.
我觉得恐怖分子们绝对没有料到这一点 And I think the terrorists never expected that.
对自由的信仰 Belief in freedom and
以及这种信仰所赋予你的勇气 the courage that it can give you overcame
可以战胜恐怖分子 the ability of the terrorists
试图打击全国人民意志的企图 to try destroy the spirit of the country.
"9.11"事件后的城市变得非常奇怪 It's really weird being in the city after 9/11
因为整个城市显得如此安静 because the city was so quiet.
人们默默地乘坐地铁 People get on the subway, no one would speak.
彼此之间礼让有加 People were very polite to each other.
大家就是这么走进车厢 You know, just everybody would move in.
说句话就有人让座 People would give up their seat with one talk.
非常奇怪 It was just weird.
就像是人们都意识到了每个人都是那么脆弱 It was almost like they realized how fragile everybody was.
除了那天的灾难 恐惧以及损失 Despite what happened and the horror and the loss
我很惊讶美国人能够重新振作 kind of amazing that Americans could rebound
王薇薇 [时装设计师]
他们回到了纽约 and you know, they came back to New York,
不少美国人都回到了纽约 America came back to New York,
并帮助纽约 and helped New York,
在纽约消费 游览 spent money in New York and visited New York.
我们能够快速迅捷地 We were able to do something so quickly,
采取措施 来恢复 so expeditiously in terms of getting back
唐纳德·J·特朗普 [美国地产大亨]
世贸大厦倒塌后的 to order after the travesty of the World Trade Center
正常秩序 when it came tumbling down.
办事效率如此之高 令人惊讶不已 To have done that so quickly, it's amazing.
在这个岛上的一小块地方 You have the worst attack in the history of the country
遭受了史上最可怕的袭击 in the small little tip of the island
十年后你回到这里 发现依旧人山人海 and ten years later you go back and it's filled with people.
更多的人来到了这里 More people have moved there
比附近地区历史最高人数还多 than ever in the history of that neighborhood.
很明显 那里原本没有那么多人 Certainly it didn't have that many families.
现在 一个操场就建在 Now the playground is right around
飞机失事的地方 很多孩子在那里玩耍 the spot where the planes hit, are filled with kids.
因此 还有这种感觉 比如说 "好啊 有种来啊 And so there's kind of this sense of like "Yes, try it,
你能让飞机撞我们的大楼 fine, you can fly planes into our buildings,
但我们还会回来 but, you know, we're going to go back
在这里开始我们的新生活" and build a new life for ourselves there."
美国修复了伤口 继续展望未来 America rebuilds and looks to the future.
400年前 冒险家们远渡重洋 400 years ago, adventurers crossed an ocean
并启动了一项后来成就了美国的伟大尝试 and began an experiment that would become the United States.
他们省吃俭用 They saved up every penny they had,
就为了能搭上危险的海船来到美国 so they could take treacherous ship ride to the United States
然后来到了一个一片荒芜的国家 and then come to a country where there was nothing here.
他们不得不白手起家 They had to make everything themselves,
自食其力 build everything themselves.
美国诞生于逆境 America was born out of adversity.
里克·哈里森 [金银典当]
这一点好像就写在我们的基因里 It's like in our DNA.
在新千年伊始 At the start of new millennium,
美国的尝试仍在进行中 the American experiment is still under way.
这是一个尚未成熟的国家 This is an unfinished country.
我们还没有完全完成使命并安定下来 We're not fully completed and settled and settled down.
仍有开放的新空间 新领域 There're still opening new space, new territory
我们仍然在不断吸纳新人 and we're still incorporating new people
戴维·M·肯尼迪 [斯坦福大学]
他们会持续改变我们这个社会的基因 who continually transform the very DNA of our society.
20世纪的最后10年 The last decade of the 20th century
近一千万的新美国人来到这个国家 saw nearly 10 million new Americans welcomed into the country.
这个数字超过了美国历史上任何一个十年 More than in any other decade of the country's history.
无名英雄不断涌现 I think the unsung heroes, began with
纽特·金里奇 [前美国国会众议院议长]
从1607年乘坐小木船 the first people with the courage
来到这里的第一批勇敢的先辈们开始 to get on those very small wooden ships in 1607
直到今天 仍是英雄辈出 and have continued up to today.
我总是跟别人说 I always tell people,
只要走到国家机场的出租车停靠站 you just walk down the cab rank at National Airport
记下人们都是来自哪里 and list where people come from,
就会意识到移民精神 you realize that the spirit of immigration
和追求美好未来的精神根本没有消失 and the spirit of better future hasn't disappeared at all.
截至2007年 八分之一的美国人是在国外出生的 In 2007, one in eight Americans was born abroad.
我母亲是古巴人 我爸爸是澳大利亚人 My mother's Cuban and my dad is Australian,
索莱达·奥布莱恩 [CNN首席主持人]
我母亲是黑人 我父亲是白人 my mother is black, my father's white.
但美国就是这样一个大熔炉 But America is this melting pot.
我是个会长雀斑的拉丁美洲黑人 You know, I'm a black latino with freckles.
这就是美国 And that's kind of America.
我们就是这个大熔炉 我们一直都是 We're this melting pot and we always have been.
人们不顾一切想要来到这里 We've been the place that people are desperate to get to
因为他们知道 一旦来到了这里 because they know once there,
他们就能书写自己的传奇 their story can be written.
一切皆有可能 It can be anything.
每一个社会在过去的 Each society in the past
托尼·班尼特 [著名男歌手]
文明发展中都进行了大量的创新 created tremendous innovations in civilizations.
忽然之间 这些创新我们一应俱全 All of a sudden we have them all here.
不是一种价值体系 It's not just one philosophy.
而是很多很多种价值体系 It's many, many philosophies
造就了这个充满创造力的国家 which makes for a very creative country.
在过去的20年间 In the past 20 years,
三分之二的新移民来自拉丁美洲和亚洲 two-thirds of new immigrants have come from Latin America and Asia.
我觉得这种在美国一切皆有可能的理论 I think this theory that you can be anything that you want in America
玛格丽特·周 [喜剧演员]
不是一种理论 而是事实 is not a theory. It's a truth.
这是一个在每个移民的经历里 It's a basic truth that
都体现得淋漓尽致的基本事实 plays itself out in every immigrant story.
美国的故事真的一直都是这样 It's really what America has always been about.
戴维·鲍尔达奇 [犯罪推理小说作家]
来自异国他乡 Coming from someplace else.
来到一个可以靠你的汗水和努力 Coming to a place where you can rise up with your own sweat,
出人头地的地方 and your own hard work and
取得在其他地方不可能取得的成就 achieve something better than what you might have had elsewhere.
所以对我来说 So for me
美国的移民尝试永远不会结束 the immigration experiment in America will never end because
因为这才是我们国家的独特之处 really that's what defines us as a nation.
我觉得美国人就是 I think Americans are a collection
梅莉莎·埃瑟里奇 [歌手 作曲家]
一群神奇的人 of incredible souls and beings
相信我们都是休戚相关的 who believe we are all in this together.
这是一个充满机遇的国家 This is a country where you can take chances.
你能够竭尽全力取得成功 You're allowed to try anything to achieve success
迈克尔·斯特拉汉 [前美国橄榄球联赛球星]
但失败总是难免的 and failure is always there.
为了尝试新事物 学会面对失败 and in order to try things and have failure there
你必须变得勇敢 you have to be brave.
美国有着一种人定胜天的精神 There's a large can-do attitude in the United States.
鲍勃·鲁兹 [通用汽车前副总裁]
我认为美国是一片机会之地的另一个原因是 I think America's a land of opportunity again because,
王薇薇 [时装设计师]
这里没有陈规教条 there were no set rules.
我们差不多是一边前进一边制定规则 We sort of invented it as we went along.
有这样一种信念 无论你身处何时 It's this belief that wherever you are in every moment of history
史蒂芬·约翰逊 [著名作家]
身处何地 whatever your circumstances
都有可能实现突破性的进展 that radical progress is possible.
美国一直就不乏具有创业精神的伟大思想家 I believe the United States has and hopefully will
相信将来还会不断出现 continue to have some of the great thinkers in terms of entrepreneurship.
唐纳德·J·特朗普 [美国地产大亨]
我们是一个思想开放的国家 We are a nation of open-mindedness.
玛莎·斯图尔特 [著名女企业家 有"家政女王"之称]
我觉得我们喜爱新鲜事物 I think we love new things.
我们喜欢尝试新鲜事物 I think we love to try new things.
美国的每一次巨大变革 We've sacrificed our blood and treasure
布莱恩·威廉斯 [NBC晚间新闻主播]
我们都为之牺牲过生命和财富 for just about every great thing in America
不管是在海外战场 whether it's been on an overseas battlefield
还是像胡佛水坝这样看似平凡的事情 or something as seemingly mundane as the Hoover Dam.
过去的几个世纪里 艰难险阻不断 Over the centuries there has been a lot of adversity,
我们总能凯旋而归 and we have usually triumphed.
我们是一个随时准备迎难而上的国家 We're a country that is always prepared to fight back.
汤姆·布罗考 [原NBC新闻主播]
这就是美国精神的一部分 It's just part of the American character.
这个国家越是承受压力 越是表现出色 This country reacts very well under pressure.
她经历过那些重压下的日子 It goes through these pressurized times
并且变得比从前更强大 and then comes out stronger than before.
你可以说我们最突出的特点是 So I suppose you could say the most defining
我们的活力 characteristic is our dynamism,
我们还是个乐观的民族 这一点同等重要 and equally important we are an optimistic people.
理查德·诺顿·史密斯 [乔治梅森大学 历史学家]
我们是一群相信未来的人 We are a people who believe the future is our friend.
人人生而平等 Everybody was created equal.
这是《独立宣言》里说的 It's in the Declaration of Independence.
所有人都是生而平等的 All men are created equal.
美国的整个历史正说明了这点 That really gives voice to the whole American experience.
我们仍然有种族问题 We still have racial difficulties,
仍然有贫困人口 we still have disadvantaged people,
科林·L·鲍威尔将军 [前美国国务卿]
但美国的多样性及其人民的 but the unique thing about America
独特之处就在于 and its diversity and its people,
我们总是在不断前进 is that we are always moving forward.
我们总是在解决问题 And we're always dealing with problems,
而不是忽视问题 not ignoring them.
质疑你的国家 Questioning your country
并不时地回顾她的美好与不足 and constantly going back and examining the beauty of it and the flaws,
我觉得这才是一个爱国的美国人 I think that makes a patriotic American.
在我看来 这才是真正的美国精神 That's real American character in my mind.
我们所征服的疆域 I mean, the frontiers that we've conquered
可以称得上令人瞠目 is kind of amazing.
在一段相对较短的时间里 In a relatively short period of time
美国在帮助世界变革 America's helped to transform the world.
短短400年间 美国从几个脆弱的小据点 From few fragile footholds, in just 400 years
已经成长为全世界最强大的国家 America has grown into the most powerful nation on earth.
脱胎于伟大的尝试 Born from the enterprising experiment,
和第一批移民的虔诚 and piety of the first settlers,
成型于革命的激情与远大的理想 forged by revolutionary passion and high ideals,
在渴求创新和科技进步的驱使下 driven by a thirst for innovation and technological change,
整个国家博采世界精华 a nation drawn from across the world.