Meltdown at Three Mile Island《三里岛核事故（1999）》完整中英文对照剧本.docxVIP

Hello, Im David McCullough.大家好 我是大卫·麦卡勒Welcome to The American Experience.欢迎收看《美国印象·一个国家的记忆》Fear of powerful forces let loose by amazing machines惊人的机器和科学释放出来的强大力量and amazing science is an old story in American life,给美国人带来的恐惧由来已久from as far back as the days of steam.可追溯至蒸汽时代You remember the scene 《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里的情景in Huckleberry Finn.大家应该都还记得Its night on a river and suddenly a steam boat夜晚河面上一片漆黑 雾气腾腾bursts out of the dark and the fog, 忽然一艘蒸汽船驶出 bearing down on Huck and Jim on their raft.冲向哈克和吉姆的木筏...and all of a sudden she bulged out, big and scary,它突然冲出来 庞大而骇人with a long row of wide open furnace doors但见一长排大开的炉门shining like red-hot teeth,闪闪发光 一如火红的巨齿There was a yell at us, 有人对我们大吼一声 and a jingling of bells to stop the engines,然后又响起熄灭引擎的警铃hearts;声hearts;a pow-wow of cussing, and whistling steam --接着是一阵咒骂声 一阵排气声and as Jim went overboard on one side, and I on the other,就在杰姆和我各自从两边跳船的一刹那she came smashing straight through the raft.巨轮直接从筏子中间碾了过去Our film is about another moment of terror我们的故事同样是讲述一个恐惧时刻on another American river, in our own atomic age.也发生在河流上 就在这个原子时代The year was 1979. 那是在1979年Yet here again were furnaces big and scary,这里通天巨炉也庞大而骇人but they were nuclear.但它们是核反应堆炉And again there was a very big pow-wow of cussing,彼时也能听到一阵咒骂声but this time among citizens, 但这声音来自于民众 scientists, and officials.科学家 官员们之间This was reality, of course.当然这一次是发生在现实中And as word spread,随着流言散播the terror was felt everywhere.恐怖的空气四处蔓延Even after so many years,即使若干年后的今天the thought of what could have happened回想起当时可能发生的严重后果is enough to stop the heart.就足以令人心惊肉跳Many of us remember where and when许多人还记得何时何地we heard the first bulletins from Three Mile Island.听到三里岛传来的第一声惊雷Though far away, I felt particularly connected.尽管身处远方 我感到格外忧心Our oldest son was in college in Pennsylvania,我们的大儿子正在宾西法尼亚读大学less than a hundred miles 处在事故地点下风 down-wind from the site.相距不到100英里[约160.9公里]And the governor of the state, Dick Thornburgh,而