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He innovates a new system for producing cars.
他创造性地推出了一套新的汽车生产系统
Rather than hand crafting each car one at a time, his are assembled by a line of workers, piece by piece.
不是每次手工打造整辆车 而是让工人一个零件一个零件地组装汽车
It's called the assembly line and it completely changes manufacturing forever.
这就是所谓的组装线 它彻底改变了制造的方式
Ford didn't invent mass production. But he perfected mass production.
发明批量生产的不是福特 但他完善了批量生产
He understood that a complicated product like an automobile could be simplified and could be made less expensive if the same thing was produced again and again and again.
他明白一个复杂的产品 比如汽车 可以简化之 如果同样的东西生产了一件一件又一件 那么成本就可以下降
Using the assembly line, Ford workers can build cars up to eight times faster than any other automobile factory in the world.
使用装配线 福特员工的速度比世界上任何其他汽车制造厂要快八倍
What once took twelve hours to assemble, now takes an hour and a half.
那些曾经要花十二个小时组装的活 现在只需要一个半小时
The innovation allows Ford to standardize the eight-hour workday, five days per week.
创新让福特可以将每周五天 每天八小时的工作制度标准化
But for Ford to continue to innovate, he'll need to win his lawsuit.
但是福特继续创新的话 他需要赢得这场官司
His fate, like John Rockefeller's, now rests in the hands of a federal court.
他的命运 和约翰·洛克菲勒一样现在掌握在联邦法院的手中
Henry Ford and John D. Rockefeller are two American icons, from different generations, on opposing sides of battle for the country's future.
亨利·福特和约翰·D·洛克菲勒都是美国的标志性人物 他们是两代人 分属决定国家未来的斗争的不同方
As the verdicts come in, American business will never be the same.
宣判的结果一旦揭晓 美国的商业从此不同

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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：
come in
到达；被收到:
The train is coming in now.
火车现在已在进站。

opposing side
对立的；相竞争的；对抗的:
Players from the opposing side is in good form.
对方的运动员状态很好。

rest on / upon sb / sth
依靠；依赖:
All our hopes now rest on you.
现在所有的希望都寄托在你的身上。

reach a verdictt
(陪审团的)裁定,裁决,裁断:
Has the jury reached a verdict ?
陪审团作出裁定了吗？

assemble sth
装配；组装:
The shelves are easy to assemble.
搁架容易装配。