(单词翻译:单击)
The first time I ever made a delivery was in the spring of 1953,
我第一次开始送天然气泡矿泉水是1953年的春天，
and I was six months old on my father's route.
那时，父亲带着六个月大的我巡回推销天然气泡矿泉水。
I grew up doing this. Seltzer man.
我一直是做这个长大的。气泡矿泉水来了。
My name is Walter Backerman, and I am a Seltzer Man.
我是沃特·贝克曼，我是卖天然气泡矿泉水的。
A Seltzer Man is the order taker, the bottle fixer, the driver, the deliverer, the salesman.
我们这个职业既要负责结账，还要负责开车、配送、销售。
You're everything rolled into one.
基本上什么都要干。
If people ask you what it is about the seltzer business that makes you wanna continue doing it,
如果有人问起，卖天然气泡矿泉水有什么好，你是怎么坚持下来的？
you hold that seltzer bottle and you hold history. You hold memories. You hold an object of beauty.
捧着天然气泡矿泉水的瓶子，就是捧着历史、捧着回忆、捧着美。
That's 1871. It still works.
这个瓶子是1871年的，现在还能用。
Without these bottles, this business doesn't exist.
没有这些瓶子，这个行业也就不存在了。
This machine is a Barnett & Foster siphon filling machine.
这个是Barnett & Foster的全自动无人灌装机。
I think it was made in London, early 1900s.
应该是二十世纪早期伦敦制造的。
It's a six siphon grade filling machine.
这是一台六头灌装机。
It goes around through the carousel and only one bottle goes in at a time.
机器会绕着轴心旋转，而且一次只能灌装一瓶。
So it's a lot of work.
所以灌装起来还是很繁琐的。
The reason this is a better seltzer is because there's nothing else in this seltzer
我们的矿泉水好在里面没有添加任何多余的成分，
other than New York City tap water, which is triple-filtered through sand, charcoal, and paper, and CO2.
只有纽约的自来水和二氧化碳，自来水也都是经过沙子、炭和纸三层过滤的。
Fortunately, as long as the machine is fixed and I have a place to fill,
值得庆幸的是，只要这些机器还能用，只要还有一个地方能让我待，
I can't see any reason why this business should be a nail in the coffin situation where it's over.
我就没有理由觉得这份工作干不下去，没有理由觉得它面临终结了。
It won't be over till the last bottle of seltzer is squirted, and I don't see that anytime soon.
不到最后一瓶这个职业就不能算完，起码我觉得现阶段这个职业是还有前途的。
