美國商業(yè)大亨傳奇 第100期:掌控全局(27)

90% of eligible voters go to the polls, roughly doublerecent turnouts.

90%的合格選民都去投票了 大約是近期的一倍多

In the 1890s voting was a public act and on oneside there was the Republican ballot box and on theother side was the Democratic ballot box.

在19世紀90年代投票是公開的 一邊是投給共和黨的投票箱 另一邊是投給民主黨的投票箱

And so your foreman or an agent of your foreman could see who you voted for.

所以工頭或者工頭代理能夠看出你是投給誰的

So there was a certain coercion that was employed by the Republicans upon those urbanworkers.

因此共和黨對這些城鎮(zhèn)職工施加了一定的壓力

They might well have decided what they decided on their own but this simply made it easier forthem to decide that.

他們可能有自己的決定 但是這樣一來 他們決定起來就簡單了

When the polls close, the nation's future hangs in the balance.

投票結束 國家的前途未卜

For 20 long hours Carnegie, Morgan and Rockefeller agonize over the results.

在漫長的二十小時里 卡內基 摩根與洛克菲勒都在苦等結果

Not knowing whether the modern country they helped to build will still be the same when allthe ballots are counted.

不知道選票統(tǒng)計完畢后 他們幫助建立的現(xiàn)代化國家 還能不能維持原樣

America is at a crossroads.

美國正處在一個十字路口

A small group of men have created the modern country, building unimagined empires in oil,steel and electricity.

一小群人建立起了現(xiàn)代化國家 打造了難以想象的石油 鋼鐵以及電力帝國

But now, those empires are being threatened.

但現(xiàn)在這些帝國正在受到威脅