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Every page printed in the last 500 years Owes a debt to Gutenberg's invention.
过去五百年间印刷的每一页纸 都应归功于古腾堡的发明
With an investment of 800 guilders,
耗资八百荷兰盾
The equivalent of over a million dollars,His printing press goes into production.
即相当于超过一百万美元的投资 他的印刷术投入了生产
He prints 180 copies of the Bible.
印制了一百八十本
Another six billion have been printed since
自此之后又有六十亿本印刷出版
Books can now be produced Two thousand times faster than before.
如今书籍的出版速度 比以前快了两千倍
20 million are printed in 50 years.
五十年间已印制了两千万本
As knowledge begins to spread,
知识随之开始普及
it becomes more within reach of ordinary people
普通人接触知识的程度
in ways we've never seen before in human history.
是人类史上前所未有的
All these parallels you hear to the Internet,
正如你们所熟知的互联网一样
that's a very good analogy.
这是个很恰当的类比
Now a book will inspire one man to strike out across the oceans
随后 有本书将鼓励一个人跨过大洋到达彼岸
And change the future of mankind.
并改变人类的未来
1476, off the coast of Portugal.
1476年 在葡萄牙沿岸
An Italian sailor shipwrecked and left for dead by pirates.
一个意大利水手被海盗袭击 遗弃海上
His name...Christopher Columbus.
他就是 克里斯托弗·哥伦布
