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The Hoover Dam The fight back starts here. Vast building projects, publicly funded...privately built. This is Frank Hurry Up Crowe. He’s already built six dams on time and under budget. And now he has his eye on something even bigger: the Colorado River. 复兴之路从这里开始，由政府出资私人承建的大型工程项目，这就是人称快手的弗兰克·克罗。他已成功承建6座水坝，按时完工且不超预算，现在他把目光投向了更大的目标—科罗拉多河。 “I was wild to build this dam, the biggest dam ever built by anyone, anywhere.” “我十分渴望修建这个大坝使之成为最宏伟无与伦比的大坝。” The Colorado River is one of the most powerful rivers in the world. Every second, twice as much water, tears through these canyons than goes over Niagara Falls. 科罗拉多河是世上水流最湍急的河之一，从这些峡谷里每秒钟奔腾而下的水量相当于尼亚加拉大瀑布水流量的两倍。 Frank Crowes plan is to harness it. The water and hydroelectricity will transform the whole of the Southwest. March 4, 1931, the government gives the go-ahead to build the Hoover Dam. 弗兰克·克罗的计划是驾驭这条河。这条河所蕴含的水和水力发电将改变整个西南部。1931年3月4日，联邦政府一声令下开始修建胡佛水坝。 “The Hoover Dam, even before they started building it。It became a metaphor; people saw it as a statement of the Americans fortitude, of our ingenuity, of our talent for hard work and for our willingness to transform the environment around us.” “胡佛水坝尚未动工之时,就被视为一种象征。人们视之为美国精神的象征、不屈不挠、独具匠心、迎难而上、勇往直前、改造世界。” The Hoover Dam will cost nearly $1 billion in todays money. Frank Crowes is offered a 2.5% cut of the dam’s profits if he gets the job done quickly. It should take 6 years to build, but Frank says it can be done in 4. 这座水坝的造价相当于今天的10亿美元。弗兰克·克罗如果能迅速完工便可得到水坝盈利的2.5%作为报酬。预计要花6年才能建成水坝,但弗兰克说他只需4年即可完工。 42,000 men come from across the country looking for jobs on the biggest construction site in America. Frank Crowe takes 5,000 men willing to work harder and faster than anyone else. The survival of the fittest. Men are ready to do anything for work. 全??各地共有四万两千人来这个美国最大的工地找工作。弗兰克·克罗收了五千名最能吃苦耐劳且干活麻利的。优胜劣汰。人们为了得到工作不惜一切代价。 “Theres a large cando attitude in the United States and it come soon the fact that over the centuries, there has been a lot of adversity, and we have usually trium