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In the next 300 years,Potosi will supply 80% of all the silver in the world.
此后三百年间 世界范围内多达80%的白银都产自波托西
We put great value on that which is rare.
物以稀为贵
You can take silver and break it up into small bits,
并且由于便携 可被切割细分

so that they become a standard value currency
因此白银就可充当 一种标准有价货币
and with that you can purchase and trade with other societies,
人们可以用白银购买所需 与外族人交易
and it's going to increase the wealth of the entire world.
白银将在增创世界财富方面发挥巨大作用
But within 20 years, the richest silver ore is mined out,
然而最初的二十年间 随着高品质银矿的开发
Leaving Spanish engineers with a problem.
一个棘手难题始终困扰着西班牙工程师
The remaining ore is too low grade For the silver to be extracted using heat.
由于残银矿含银量太低 很难用高温方法提取纯银
The Spaniards had never encountered anything like silver ore before,
西班牙人在此之前 从未接触过这类银矿
and didn't know how to refine it.
因而对精炼技术一窍不通
The techniques they used actually just ended up boiling away the silver.
他们使用的提取技术仅仅局限于 将银矿石加热汽化
The riches of America trapped inside its rocks.
美洲的庞大财富竟被困于这小小的矿石之中
But in 1553, a man arrives with a secret formula,
直到1553年 一位有志之士携秘方而来
The key that unlocks the wealth of the new world:Bartolomeu Medina.
为"释放"新大陆的滚滚财富献上关键一计 他就是巴尔托洛梅乌·梅迪纳
Experimenter, innovator, entrepreneur.
身兼试验家 发明家 企业家
A textiles trader from Spain,He's traveled 5,000 miles to make his fortune.
他是一位来自西班牙的纺织商 为寻财路 他已长途跋涉五千英里

重点讲解

1、standard
(尤指合格的)水平，水准
The standard of professional cricket has never been lower.
职业板球的水平从来没有这么低过。
There will be new national standards for hospital cleanliness.
有关医院清洁的新国家标准将会出台。
普通的;常规的
It was standard practice for untrained clerks to advise in serious cases such as murder.
让未经过训练的书记员在诸如谋杀等重大案件中提供建议是普遍的做法。
No other executive car can offer you the same level of standard equipment at this price.
再无其他高级轿车能按这个价格水平为你提供同样水准的标准配置。
(用以衡量质量的)标准，基准
systems that were by later standards absurdly primitive.
以后来的标准来衡量显得非常原始的系统

2、encounter
遇到，遭遇（问题、困难）
Every day of our lives we encounter stresses of one kind or another.
我们在每天的生活中会面临这样或那样的压力。
Environmental problems they found in Poland were among the worst they encountered.
他们在波兰发现的环境问题是他们遇到过的最严重的。
偶遇;邂逅
Did you encounter anyone in the building?
你在大楼里遇到谁了么？
Renata wrote him that she had encountered her long-estranged father.
雷娜塔写信告诉他说她碰到了分离多年的父亲。
特殊经历;特殊体验
a sexual encounter.
性体验
his first serious encounter with alcohol.
他第一次正儿八经喝酒的经历