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The trouble spreads to other branches.
风波也殃及了其他支行
By the next morning,the Bank of United States has collapsed.
第二天早上，合众国银行倒闭
Confidence in US banks disintegrates.
民众对美国银行体系的信心土崩瓦解
In the last 60 days of 1930, 600 banks shut.
1930年最后两个月 600家银行倒闭
Banks close in wave after wave across the country.
一波又一波银行倒闭狂潮席卷全国
By 1933, there are 28 states without a single bank open.
1933年 全美有28个州没一家银行营业
Unlike today,the federal government does not bail out the banks.
与如今不同，当时联邦政府并不为银行担保
Unemployment goes from 4 million in 1930 to 12 million in 1932.
失业人数从1930年的400万，飙升至1932年的1200万
Every day, 1,000 homes are repossessed.
每天有1000个家庭流离失所
200,000 vagrant children wander the country.
20万名流浪儿无家可归
34 million Americans have no source of income.
3400万美国人丧失经济来源
It was an American tragedy, the Depression was,and it took American ingenuity to lift America out of it.
大萧条是美国的悲剧，只有美国人自己的智慧才能拯救自己
The fight back starts here.
复兴之路从这里开始
Vast building projects, publicly funded...privately built.
由政府出资 私人承建的大型工程项目
This is Frank "Hurry Up" Crowe.
这就是人称"快手"的弗兰克·克罗
He's already built six dams on time and under budget.
他已成功承建6座水坝 按时完工且不超预算
And now he has his eye on something even bigger:the Colorado River.
现在他把目光投向了更大的目标，科罗拉多河
I was wild to build this dam,the biggest dam ever built by anyone, anywhere.
我十分渴望修建这个大坝，使之成为最宏伟无与伦比的大坝
The Colorado River is one of the most powerful rivers in the world.
科罗拉多河是世上，水流最湍急的河之一
Every second, twice as much water,tears through these canyons than goes over Niagara Falls.
从这些峡谷里，每秒钟奔腾而下的水量相当于尼亚加拉大瀑布水流量的两倍
Frank Crowe's plan is to harness it.
弗兰克·克罗的计划是 驾驭这条河
The water and hydroelectricity will transform the whole of the Southwest.
这条河所蕴含的水和水力发电将改变整个西南部
