For those workers to have built something as monumental and as challenging as Hoover Dam was,

对于那些工人来说建造了胡佛水坝如此富有挑战又意义深远的建筑物

it was an astonishing feat of construction and I think it gave us all a sense of the possible.

实在是建筑史上一次惊人的壮举，让我们相信一切皆有可能

1936,,The Hoover Dam is the largest hydroelectric power-producing facility in the world.

1936年，胡佛大坝成为世界上最大的水力发电设施

Each of the 17 generators weighs more than four jumbo jets.

这里共17座发电机，每座的重量都超过4架巨型飞机

Together, they can supply power to 750,000 people in booming cities like Los Angeles.

这些发电机可以给像洛杉矶这样迅速发展的城市里75万人口提供电力

The dam creates Lake Mead,

这座大坝造就了密德湖

the biggest reservoir in America,

美国最大的水库

big enough to flood the entire state of New York under a foot of water.

蓄水量足以将整个纽约州覆盖在一英尺深的水下

It helps California produce more food,for the United States than any other state.

让加利福尼亚成为美国粮食产量最大的州

The Hoover Dam workers make something else boom as well.

胡佛大坝建筑工人还带动了周围地区的发展

A little town 30 miles away where they go to drink and gamble.

他们常去30英里外的一座小镇喝酒赌博

Its name:Las Vegas.

小镇的名字叫做 拉斯维加斯

As the wife of one Hoover Dam worker puts it:

胡佛大坝一名建筑工人的妻子如是说

When men worked in such dangerous surroundings,

他们的工作如此危险

you couldn't blame a lot of fellas for sort of letting their hair down.

所以偶尔放纵一下也是无可厚非

They were having fun.

他们开心就好

1930. 5,000 people live in Las Vegas.

1930年 拉斯维加斯城居民共5000人

Then the dam workers arrive.

然后来了建筑大坝的工人

Then the tourists. Then the gambling.

然后是游客 然后是赌博业的兴起

Now, over 37 million people come every year to party in Las Vegas.

现如今 每年有3700多万人来到拉斯维加斯吃喝玩乐

After 70 years, the Hoover Dam still supplies power to the people of Nevada, Arizona,and California.

建成七十余年，胡佛大坝依然为内华达州、亚利桑那州以及加州居民供电

One Las Vegas hotel has the biggest flashlight on earth,40 billion candle power.

拉斯维加斯一家酒店有着全世界最大的探照灯，这盏灯拥有400亿烛光功率

You can read a newspaper 10 miles out in space by its light.

借助其灯光，人们可在10英里外的地方看报