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Here's this man who has the world in his hand.

这个男人手上拥有整个世界

Here's the man who has riches that can't be counted.

拥有无可计数的财富

And he's lost his beloved.He has lost what he cannot hold.

但他失去了自己的挚爱 却无能为力

In grief, Shah Jahan commissions a tomb for his beloved wife.

悲伤中的沙杰罕命人为他的挚爱修建一座坟墓

Hundreds of tons of white marble, encrusted with jewels,

用了成百上千吨的汉白玉 外加珠宝点缀

costing the equivalent of $70 million dollars today.

其造价相当于今天的七千万美元

A lasting monument to the power of silver:the Taj Mahal.

以白银筑成的这座旷世持久的纪念殿堂 就是泰姬陵

Global trade and wealth on a vast new scale

世界贸易和财富的空前繁盛

creates some of mankind's most iconic structures.Bigger, taller.

创造出人类史上一些最具代表性的建筑 它们更宏伟 更高大

We'll spend the next 350 years building monuments

接下来三百五十年里 我们将不断以建筑

to our economic power and our connected world.

展现自己的经济实力和世界间的联系

The riches of a new world unlocked.

新的财富之地打开了

A new global currency launching pirates across oceans.

海盗们为了新的全球货币不惜漂洋过海

New commodities, new desires,And new conflicts,

新的商品 新的欲望 新的矛盾

transforming every continent on the planet.

改变着这个星球上的每一片土地

that kind of globalization that we're in now,

在如今我们所处的全球化的世界里

where bank collapses in Iceland can ripples across the American Midwest.

冰岛银行的倒闭 可以影响到美国中西部

That all begins in the 16th century and it begins with the creation of this universal currency.

这一切都起源于十六世纪 以及通用货币的创造

Now pioneers push further into the open spaces of the world.

现在 开拓者们继续深入世界各地

New adventures,discoveries,and an age of revolutions that will launch mankind into the modern world.

新的冒险 发现 以及一个革命的时代 将引领人类进入现代世界

重点讲解

1、commission

正式委托;委托(做)

The Ministry of Agriculture commissioned a study into low-input farming.

农业部委托对低投入耕作进行研究。

You can commission them to paint something especially for you.

你可以委托他们专门为你画点什么。

佣金;回扣

The salesmen work on commission only.

销售人员只根据销售量提取佣金。

He also got a commission for bringing in new clients.

他还因为带来了很多新客户拿到一笔佣金。

委员会;调查团

The authorities have been asked to set up a commission to investigate the murders.

当局被敦促成立一个委员会负责调查这些谋杀案。

the Press Complaints Commission.

媒体投诉委员会

2、connect

(使)连接

You can connect the machine to your hi-fi.

你可以把机器连在高保真音响上。

The traditional method is to enter the exchanges at night and connect the wires.

传统的办法是晚上进入电话局，把线连上。

使连接，使接通(电源、水源等)

These appliances should not be connected to power supplies.

这些家用电器不应该接通电源。

Ischia was now connected to the mainland water supply.

伊斯基亚这时已经通上了大陆的水。

(火车或飞机等)联运，衔接

a train connecting with a ferry to Ireland.

与开往爱尔兰的渡船联运的火车

My connecting plane didn't depart for another six hours.

我搭乘的联运航班又过了6个小时才起飞。