7.It Was Rebuilt By Lex Luthor
7.莱克斯·卢瑟重建了哥谭市
"No man's land" seemed to be the problem Gotham would never recover from. An earthquake massacre, a ruined city, mass evacuations, and federal abandonment seemed to be the perfect storm to destroy the city. It was saved by a very unlikely source: Lex Luthor. He spent oodles of his seemingly endless money in order to rebuild the city from the ground up.
"无人之境"似乎意味着哥谭市将不复存在。一场死伤无数的地震，到处断壁残垣，大量市民撤离以及联邦政府的抛弃无疑像飓风一样摧毁了哥谭市。然而，一个极不可能的人却拯救了他——莱克斯·卢瑟。他投入了大量资金，从头开始重建哥谭市。
Interestingly, the government's hands were tied. They had literally abandoned Gotham City, making the city itself outside of their jurisdiction. Therefore, America could not do much to stop Luthor helping out an embedded chunk of no-longer-America short of sending in the military—which would have been a public relations disaster for the president. Who wants to be seen as the president sending in tanks to stop a rich humanitarian from saving lives? So, Lex rebuilt the city, and the president gave in to public pressure and brought Gotham City back into the United States.
有趣的是，美国政府却没有干预。他们曾经彻底抛弃了哥谭市，对它不管不问。因此，美国政府没有阻止莱克斯·卢瑟，否则，总统将饱受舆论压力。哪个总统想被看作成一个阻止富有的人道主义者拯救生命的人呢？所以，莱克斯重建了哥谭市，而总统也迫于公共压力使哥谭重新回到了美国。

As for Lex, it turned out to be part of a gamble to control almost all of the city through hard-to-trace fraud. Batman stopped Luthor, but only after the villainous mogul returned the city to its former majesty.
其实，莱克斯只是想通过一种隐晦的手段来达到控制哥谭的目的。最终，蝙蝠侠阻止了卢瑟，但却没能阻止他把哥谭变成从前的样子。

6.Gotham Is Green Lantern's City, Too
6.哥谭也是绿灯侠的城市

Gotham is understandably synonymous with Batman for many casual fans. However, Batman is not the only hero who has a decades-old claim on the city, as it was also home to Green Lantern. This was not the Green Lantern that many are familiar with—the space cop with a willpower-fueled ring—but instead his Golden Age predecessor, Alan Scott.
对于一般超级英雄迷来说，哥谭就是蝙蝠侠的代名词。但是，蝙蝠侠并不是哥谭的唯一一个超级英雄，因为哥谭同时也是绿灯侠的家乡。但这并不是许多人熟悉的那个绿灯侠，那个意志坚定的空间巡警，而是第一任绿灯侠――艾伦·史考特。
This Lantern's ring was quite literally a magic ring that was powered by a mystical force known as the Starheart. Despite this difference, his powers would be very familiar to modern-day Lantern fans. He can fly, emit bursts of energy, and create objects through both imagination and willpower. In some ways, he has a one-up on Hal Jordan and other future Green Lanterns with his magical abilities that help him cancel magic spells, pass through walls, and even teleport.
艾伦的戒指的力量之源来自于一种叫做星心的神秘力量。尽管和其他的绿灯侠有所不同，绿灯侠的粉丝们还是对他的能力很熟悉。他能飞，可以发射能量波，通关想象和意志创造物体。从许多方面来说，他都是胜过哈尔·乔丹以及其他绿灯侠的，因为他可以不用念咒语就能施展超能力，甚至还能心灵感应。
Alan Scott originally lived in Gotham City and worked for the Gotham City Broadcasting company. He fought crime in the city as Green Lantern, and a young Bruce Wayne once saw him fighting the villain Icicle on Gotham's streets, helping to inspire the future Batman.
艾伦·史考特最初居住在哥谭市，并且在哥谭市广播公司工作。他以绿灯侠的身份在这座城市中打击犯罪。年轻的布鲁斯·韦恩还曾经在他打击反派Icicle时见到过他，并激励韦恩成为了未来的蝙蝠侠。

5.Gotham's Government Makes Batman's Life Easier
5.哥谭市政府让蝙蝠侠更容易作战

It's tempting to completely turn off one's incredulity when reading a Batman story. After all, after accepting that a story about a billionaire beating up the mentally ill is meant to be both noble and serious, it would seem easier to accept anything except, perhaps, this: Why are all of those rooftops free for Batman to skulk around on? Where are the garish advertisements and neon signs that litter the rooftops of every other major metropolis?
当读蝙蝠侠的故事时，你很难对它产生怀疑。毕竟，在接受了亿万富翁打击罪犯的事实后，接受其他的事似乎就容易多了，比如：为什么哥谭市的屋顶可以供蝙蝠侠随意使用?其他大城市楼顶上大型的广告牌和霓虹灯在哥谭都去哪里了？
Fortunately, the comics provide an answer for this question. In Dan Slott's Arkham Asylum: Living Hell comic, he revealed that an Arkham inmate actually named Humpty Dumpty once attempted to fix the Gotham clock tower, causing a huge chain reaction that knocked down most of the giant and oversized advertisement props on Gotham's rooftops. Afterward, Gotham passed the "Sprang Act" which forbade gigantic prop advertisements within the city. This is supposed to provide an explanation (albeit whimsical) for where all of the oversized props used by villains in the Golden and Silver Age went, and also to honor Batman penciller Dick Sprang.
还好，在漫画书上做出了解答。丹·索罗特在《阿卡姆：人间地狱》中提到了这个故事。阿卡姆疯人院中一个绰号叫做"矮胖子"的精神病犯曾尝试修复哥谭市的钟塔，结果拆掉了大多数楼顶上的广告牌。后来，哥谭市政府颁布了一项名叫"Sprang act"的法令，该法令禁止在哥谭市内搭建大型广告牌。虽然很荒唐可笑，但它却解释了在其他超级英雄漫画常被大反派利用的大型广告牌为什么不在蝙蝠侠的战斗中出现的原因，其实这项法令也是为了纪念蝙蝠侠的创作者之一——Dick Sprang。

4.Gotham Is Actually In New Jersey?
4.哥谭市实际上在新泽西州？

Gotham is a city with multiple identities. It was originally New York City in the most literal sense—that is, the earliest Batman stories were set in New York City before "Gotham" was ever mentioned. The visual influence of an older New York is alive in both Burton's Batman movies and Fox's Gotham TV show. Christopher Nolan's iconic Batman films are well-known for being filmed mostly in Chicago. However, the best case for the location of the comic book Gotham is, in fact, New Jersey.
哥谭是多个城市的缩影。从许多方面来说，哥谭市最初是以纽约市为原型的，因为在哥谭市出现之前，最早期的蝙蝠侠的故事线是设定在纽约市。纽约最显著的影响是在伯顿的蝙蝠侠系列电影和福克斯电视台的美剧《哥谭》中。克里斯托弗·诺兰的蝙蝠侠系列电影大多数则是在芝加哥拍摄的。但是，蝙蝠侠系列漫画最初的定位实际上是在新泽西州。
The most definitive "evidence" of this comes from a 1990 DC Comics role-playing book that provided a map of that universe's America, and this map very clearly placed Gotham City in New Jersey. To be fair, it's easy enough to dismiss a decades-old role-playing game book as non-canonical. However, Detective Comics No. 503 mentioned the infamous Jersey Shore as being only 20 miles north of Gotham, and Robin and Batgirl quickly went from being in the Bat Cave to driving on New Jersey's Hudson County Highway. Finally, the Shadow of the Bat Annual from 1994 clearly shows a license plate that reads "Gotham City, NJ."
最明显的证据是1990年DC漫画提供了一幅美国的卫星地图，地图清楚地标记了哥谭市在新泽西州。确实，人们很容易就会忽视一本二十多年前名不见经传的旧漫画书。但是，第503期的《侦探漫画》曾提及声名狼藉的泽西海岸距离哥谭市北只有20英里，使得罗宾和蝙蝠女侠得以从哥谭市的蝙蝠侠基地迅速赶往新泽西的哈德逊县。最后，1994年的漫画《蝙蝠侠：蝙蝠之影》展示了一张铭牌，上面写着"哥谭市，新泽西州"。

ZC：译 来源：前十网