原文赏析

Initially there is this enormous let down.
开始的时候非常失望
He can't quite believe now that he has no connection with Pittsburgh or his mills.
他还无法相信自己跟匹兹堡跟工厂都没有关系了
That there is no Carnegie Steel anymore and I think it's hard for him to get used to that.
卡内基钢铁也不复存在了 我估计他很难习惯这点
If somebody accepts the ask too quickly, then you think there was more room there.
如果有时决定做得太快 往往会觉得应该有更多的余地
But I never like to look back.
但我从不喜欢回头
I'm a very forward thinking person and a very positive thinking person, and the transactions that I did, or did not do, I very rarely have any remorse over a situation.
我喜欢朝前看 我思想很积极 那些做了或者没做的交易 我都鲜有悔恨的时候
I like to move on.
过去的就过去了
J.P. Morgan calls his new company, U.S. Steel.
J·P·摩根称他的新公司为美国钢铁公司
It's instantly the biggest corporation in the world.
它瞬间成了世界上最大的公司
The first company in history to be worth more than one billion dollars and it will dominate the steel business for almost one hundred years, virtually unchallenged.
是历史上第一家价值超过十亿美元的公司 近一百年的时间里 它在钢铁行业的主导地位 都没有受到挑战
But the creation of U.S. Steel is only possible in this new era of unchecked monopolies.
但美国钢铁公司的创立 也只有在这垄断不受限制的新时代成为可能
An era Morgan helped create when he and his rivals put their President in the White House.
这一时代也是摩根及其对手通过扶植总统入住白宫而创造出来的
They may have helped to buy the President, but they can't avoid politics forever.
虽然他们一时购买了总统宝座 但他们终究不能永远回避政治
Their power over the nation's biggest industries soon catches the attention of an emerging politician, Theodore Roosevelt.
他们在国家最大的一些行业里的权势很快受到一位政治新星的关注 他就是西奥多·罗斯福

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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。

重点讲解

讲解：
let sb down
不能帮助,不能支持(某人)；使失望:
I'm afraid she let us down badly.
很遗憾,她让我们大失所望。

catch the attention of sb
注意；专心；留心；注意力:
An article in the newspaper caught my attention.
报上一篇文章引起了我的注意。

emerge (as sth)
露头；显现；显露:
He emerged as a key figure in the campaign
他已初露头角,成为这次运动的主要人物。

avoid sb/sth
回避；避开；躲避:
He's been avoiding me all week.
整整一个星期他一直在回避我。

go unchecked
不加约束的；不受限制的；放任的:
The rise in violent crime must not go unchecked.
暴力犯罪的增长必须加以制止。

era of sth
时代；年代；纪元:
When she left the firm, it was the end of an era (= things were different after that).
她离开公司后,一个时代结束了(后来的情况就大不一样了)。

Virtually+句子
几乎；差不多；事实上；实际上:
Virtually all students will be exempt from the tax.
差不多所有的学生都会获得豁免此税项。

remorse (for sth / for doing sth)
懊悔；非常遗憾；自责:
He was filled with remorse for not believing her.
他因为没有相信她而懊悔不已。