《西部开拓史(How The West Was Won)》英中字幕.doc

This land has a name today and is marked on maps.这个地方今日有个名字 并且在地图上有迹可寻But the names and the marks and the land all had to be won.但是这地名、地标、土地 全都是靠赢来的Won from nature and from primitive man.从大自然和土著手上赢得的Five generations ago, a mere 125 years back...五个世代之前 差不多一百二十五年前…...this land was known only as the West...大家只称这片土地为“西部”...known only to a handful of white men...只有少数几个白人才知道这里...lonely trappers wandering its vastness in search of beaver.孤单的捕兽皮者在这片 广阔荒原里寻找海狸They were known as mountain men, a new breed.这些人被称为山中居民 一群新世代的人Men like Jim Bridger, Linus Rawlings...像吉姆布里哲 法兰屈瑞和萨柏特，奈勒斯罗林等人...more Indian than the Indians in all but blood.比印地安人更像印地安人 只差没印地安血统They held to no law but their own...他们自订法律…...drifted free as the clouds, settled nowhere, kept forever on the move.浮云游子，居无定所 永远不停地随处迁移Their mocassined feet and unshod horses left no trace on the land.带着长满茧的双足和未钉铁鞋的马 从不驻足于任何地方Like the Indians, with whom they were at peace...他们与那些和平相处的印地安人一样…...they wanted nothing beyond what they found and little of that.他们除了自己找到的东西之外 其他什么都不要The mountains, the forests, the harsh country...群山…森林…荒野…...were as unchanging to them as the stars...对他们而言，就像星星一样…...and just as unyielding.永远都不会改变Far behind the mountains, beyond the rolling plains...在那群山和广阔平原遥遥之外…...they had left the people of the East...他们离开了东部 ...people who were restless in another way.那些庸庸碌碌的人们The kind who would look at the mountain and see a watershed...（通往西部之关卡 伊利运河）当他们看到高山时 便想到分水岭...look at the forest and see lumber for houses...看到森林时 便想到用来盖屋子的木头...look at a stony field and see a farm.看到石头平原便想到农场Their faces and their instincts had been turned to the West...他们一心一意朝向西部迈进…...ever since Plymouth Rock and James Town.打从清教徒初次登陆美国之后The trappers road was the trade of the wolf or the bend of the canyon.捕兽皮者跟随狼的行迹 或峡谷弯处前进…But for whole families following the sun, there had to be broader ways.但是携家带眷浩浩荡荡 追日前进…就得需行走大条路径There were no roads into the woodlands, only rivers...但前进荒野没有陆路，只有水路...and they flowed in the wrong direction, north or south.结果他们