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1884, Iwasaki rents an old shipyard,The base for his company: Mitsubishi.

1884年 岩崎租用了一家旧船厂 为此后的三菱公司打下基础

The expertise that made swords will make ships from steel.

铸刀技术将用来制造 钢铁船

An iron and carbon alloy honed over centuries,

作为磨练了几百年的铁碳合金

Steel is a man-made super metal up to 10 times stronger than pure iron.

钢铁是人类创造的超级金属 强度可达纯铁的十倍

Today, we use 1.3 billion tons of it every year,

今天 我们每年要用掉十三亿吨的钢铁

enough to build the Empire State Building 20,000 times.

其量足以建造两万个帝国大厦

Iwasaki recruits western experts to learn the secrets of modern industry.

岩崎聘用一些西方专家 学习现代工业的秘密

By blasting oxygen through pig iron,it's possible to make steel ten times faster.

通过让氧气急速穿过生铁的方法 制钢速度可提高十倍

In just over a century,Mitsubishi becomes the world's largest corporation,building ships, planes and cars.

短短一百年时间 三菱成为世界上建造船只 飞机和汽车的 顶级公司

Asia's first industrial nation develops faster than any country on earth.

亚洲第一工业国家比世上任一国家 都发展迅速

Japan learns in a decade what the west developed in a century.

日本十年间学会了西方世界一百年发展的秘密

Today, it's the planet's third richest nation.

如今是地球上第三大富有国

重点讲解

1、develop

发展;成长;发育;生长

As children develop, some of the most important things they learn have to do with their sense of self.

在成长过程中，孩子学到的一些最重要的东西与他们的自我意识有关。

It's hard to say at this stage how the market will develop.

在现阶段，很难说市场将会如何发展。

(问题或困难)出现，产生

A huge row has developed about the pollution emanating from a chemical plant.

一家化工厂造成的污染已经引发了激烈争论。

blood clots in his lungs, a problem which developed from a leg injury.

由腿伤引起的他肺部的血块

（使）（企业或行业）发展；（使）扩展；（使）壮大

She won a grant to develop her own business.

她赢得了一笔拨款，用以扩展自己的企业。

Over the last few years tourism here has developed considerably.

在过去几年里，这里的旅游业获得了相当大的发展。

2、modern

近代的;现代的

the problem of materialism in modern society.

现代社会的实利主义问题

the risks facing every modern marriage.

所有现代婚姻所面临的危机

现代化的;新式的;最新的

Modern technology has opened our eyes to many things.

现代科技开阔了我们的眼界，让我们了解了许多事物。

In many ways, it was a very modern school for its time.

从很多方面来说，这所学校在当时是非常先进的。

新潮的;时髦的;摩登的

They were very modern Tories in almost every sense.

从几乎所有意义上说，他们都属于非常新潮的保守主义分子。

She is very modern in outlook.

她的观点非常新潮。