With a hit Fox TV show named Gotham and a ninth big screen outing planned for Batman, more people are being exposed to his dark city every day. However, with over seven decades of history, there are many facts about Gotham City that even die-hard Bat-maniacs may have missed.
随着福克斯电视台美剧《哥谭》的热播，越来越多的人开始了解哥谭这座黑暗之城。尽管因为时间久远，有着70多年历史的哥谭市的一些真相可能鲜为人知，下面就为大家揭露10个关于哥谭市你不知道的真相。

10.The Founding Fathers Summoned A Bat Demon In Gotham
10.国父在哥谭召唤了一只恶魔

Long-time bat fans know that Gotham City has been through much more than the average comic book town. Earthquakes, plagues, and a rotating door on the one asylum. Why, both Gotham's citizens and Batman readers may wonder, is Gotham so messed up?
资深的蝙蝠侠迷都知道哥谭市经历了比一般漫画中的城市都要多得多的灾难——地震、瘟疫以及那座让人望而却步的精神病院。哥谭市的市民和漫画读者都想知道：为什么哥谭市如此糟糕?
Demons, of course! Well, one specific demon, summoned by no less than Thomas Jefferson. A bat-demon named Barbatos was summoned by Jefferson, an ancestor of Bruce Wayne, and other characters, and imprisoned beneath the city before the Revolutionary War ended. It is implied earlier in Batman's mythology that the town having a literal foundation of evil affected the development of the town and its people, either causing or exacerbating some of the bizarre goings-on of the city.
当然是恶魔！确切地说是一只被托马斯·杰斐逊（译注:美利坚合众国第三任总统。同时也是《美国独立宣言》主要起草人，及美国开国元勋中最具影响力者之一）召唤出来的叫做巴巴托斯的恶魔。杰斐逊是布鲁斯·韦恩的祖先，其他的恶魔在独立战争结束前都被他囚禁在了哥谭市地下。早期的蝙蝠侠故事中，巴巴托斯对哥谭市的发展和市民产生重要影响，导致并恶化了一系列的离奇事件。
The real explanation provided by Grant Morrison is even more bizarre—the bat-demon was the manifestation of a time-jumping adaptive weapon sent to hunt and torture a time-jumping Bruce Wayne. This means that Batman inadvertently helped to create the demonic mythology of his own city.
格兰特·莫里森的解释更加离奇:巴巴托斯是一件可以跳跃时空的武器，是用来追踪并折磨布鲁斯·韦恩的。这让蝙蝠侠不经意间使得这个传说更加离奇。

9.It Was Once Declared A 'No Man's Land' By The Government
9.哥谭曾被宣布为"无人之境"

Many Batman fans are familiar with the Dark Knight Rises plot point of Bane cutting Gotham City off from the government by threatening to destroy the city if the government intervenes. To make good on his threat, Bane destroyed almost all bridges into the city. What kind of monster, viewers might think, would do this?
许多蝙蝠侠粉丝一定对《黑暗骑士崛起》中班切断哥谭市与外界的联系，以此来威胁如果政府采取干预措施就毁灭这座城市的情节很熟悉。为了使他的威胁更有说服力，班毁掉了所有通往哥谭的交通要道。观众一定在想，到底是哪种恶魔能够做出这种事情。
In the Batman comics, it was the government itself that cut the city off. After Gotham experienced an earthquake that killed over a million people and destroyed or damaged most of the buildings, the citizens finally got the message the city had been trying to send for years: get out. With the city mostly empty and destroyed, the government destroyed Gotham's bridges and declared it a no man's land with one specific rule: Those with criminal records had to stay in the ruined city.
在蝙蝠侠漫画中，居然是美国政府切断了与哥谭的联系。在哥谭市经历了一场导致数百万死亡和大部分建筑损毁的地震后，哥谭市民们最终得到了一条政府一直想发送多年的指示:离开哥谭。因为哥谭市已经基本成为废墟，美国政府摧毁了所有通往哥谭的桥梁，并宣布哥谭已经成为无人之境。除此之外，所有有犯罪记录的人必须待在这座废墟之城中。
This created an immediate problem as some were too poor or too stubborn to leave the city, and they were now effectively trapped with criminals. Commissioner Gordon and his men decided to stay and protect these citizens along with Batman. For their trouble, everyone who stayed in the city had their citizenship revoked by the government.
这导致了一个问题，那些因为过度贫困和过于执着而留在哥谭的人们，无可奈何地被困在了一堆罪犯中。高登警监和他的警员们决定留下来，和蝙蝠侠一起保护这些市民。由于他们所带来的麻烦，所有留在哥谭的人都被美国政府剥夺了美国公民资格。

8.It Is Implied That The City Was Designed To Produce A Batman
8.哥谭是为创造蝙蝠侠特意设计的

One of the more bizarre bat-moments from the already bizarre Batman was when the R.I.P. storyline included the revelation that Batman had a backup mental identity in the event that the original was compromised. That is, a brightly colored, slightly unhinged, and ultra-violent Batman known as The Batman of Zur-en-Arrh. Because it's Batman, even the seemingly insane things about this Batman—such as conversations with a hallucination—lead to actual revelations, such as a hidden tracker inside Batman's teeth. With this in mind, his conversation with some stone gargoyles was quite interesting. The gargoyles claimed to see with "slow vision" the grids of Gotham City as it grows, giving them insight into how the city shapes its people just as much as its people shape the city.
在已经很离奇的蝙蝠侠的身上发生的更加离奇的事情是，他似乎有精神方面的问题。因为他是蝙蝠侠，所以发生在他身上的荒唐的事都会得到合理的解答。他看起来似乎经常和幻觉交流，其实他是正在通过内置在牙齿中的追踪器和同伴交流。知道了这些，他和一些滴水兽石像说话这件事在我们看来就会相当有趣了。这些滴水兽雕塑可以看到哥谭市内每一个坐标上发生的一举一动，这让人们看到正如这里的人们改变了这座城市那样，这座城市也改变了这里的人们。
By channeling this "slow vision," Batman observes Gotham and says, "A checkerboard. A blueprint, A machine designed to make Batman." This off-hand comment is explosively revelatory, implying that the city may have orchestrated the deaths of Thomas and Martha Wayne in order to create its future savior: Batman.
蝙蝠侠可以通过这些滴水兽石像密切监视哥谭，他说:"一个精准的坐标，一幅城市规划图，一台计算机，这些都是为蝙蝠侠量身打造的。"这种不经意间的感慨似乎暗示着这座城市特意安排了托马斯和玛莎·韦恩的死，以此来创造它未来的救星――蝙蝠侠。

ZC：译 来源：前十网