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With the loss of the Niagara contract, the company Morgan started with Thomas Edison is broken.
没拿到尼亚加拉的合同让摩根和爱迪生建立的公司损失惨重
And Edison's D.C. electricity looks like a failure.
爱迪生的直流电似乎是一个失败
Thomas Edison is probably the most brilliant inventor America every had.
托马斯·爱迪生可以说是美国有史以来最聪明的发明家
And like many brilliant men he was capable of spectacularly wrong choices.
和很多聪明人一样他也会作出重大的错误选择
As far as Morgan's concerned, there's only one way to fix Edison Electric.
在摩根看来要扭转爱迪生电气公司的状况只有一种方式
He's going to streamline the company.
他要对公司进行重组
And his first step is to eliminate Thomas Edison.
第一步便是清理掉托马斯·爱迪生
Morgan buys up additional shares of Edison Electric stock......until he has complete control of the company.
摩根买下了爱迪生电气公司的更多股票 直到成功实现了对公司的完全控制
It's a device that shows moving pictures.
这是一个播放动画的装置
We'll put the Niagara business behind us, and Edison General Electric will move forward to greater things.
我们不要再去管尼亚加拉那些事 爱迪生通用电气将向前看 专注于更伟大的东西
The name of the company has been changed-- to General Electric.
公司名字已经改变叫通用电气
But it's my company.
但这是我的公司
Surely I have a say.
我应该有发言权
Not anymore-- you no longer have a majority stake.
不再是 你不再拥有多数股份

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洛克菲勒、范德比尔特、卡内基、阿斯托、福特和摩根，他们的名字几乎是美国梦的近义词，也代表着美国梦的历史。他们转变了他们所接触的每个行业：石油、铁路、钢铁、船运、汽车，还有金融。他们的付出改变了一个国家。出身贫寒，他们却多次涉足总统选举，设立经济政策，影响他们那个年代——内战到大萧条时期。他们，被称为造就美国的人。

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讲解：

capable of of sth / of doing sth
有能力；有才能:
I'm perfectly capable of doing it myself, thank you.
谢谢,我完全有能力自己做这项工作。
as / so far as 'I am concerned
就我而言:
As far as I am concerned, you can do what you like.
就我而言,你想干什么就可以干什么。
be streamlined
使(系统、机构等)效率更高；(尤指)使增产节约:
The production process is to be streamlined.
生产流程还需改进。
eliminate sth / sb (from sth)
排除；清除；消除:
The police have eliminated ten suspects from their investigation.
警方通过调查已经排除了两名嫌疑犯。
say (in sth)
决定权；发言权:
We had no say in the decision to sell the company.
在决定出售公司的问题上,我们没有发言权。
buy sth up
全部(或尽量)买下某物；收购:
Developers are buying up all the land on the island.
开发商们正在收购岛上的全部土地。