美国商业大亨传奇 第112期 掌控全局(39)

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Initially there is this enormous let down.

开始的时候非常失望

He can't quite believe now that he has no connection with Pittsburgh or his mills.

他还无法相信自己跟匹兹堡跟工厂都没有关系了

That there is no Carnegie Steel anymore and I think it's hard for him to get used to that.

卡内基钢铁也不复存在了 我估计他很难习惯这点

If somebody accepts the ask too quickly, then you think there was more room there.

如果有时决定做得太快 往往会觉得应该有更多的余地

But I never like to look back.

但我从不喜欢回头

I'm a very forward thinking person and a very positive thinking person, and the transactions that I did, or did not do, I very rarely have any remorse over a situation.

我喜欢朝前看 我思想很积极 那些做了或者没做的交易 我都鲜有悔恨的时候

I like to move on.

过去的就过去了

J.P. Morgan calls his new company, U.S. Steel.

J·P·摩根称他的新公司为美国钢铁公司

It's instantly the biggest corporation in the world.

它瞬间成了世界上最大的公司

The first company in history to be worth more than one billion dollars and it will dominate the steel business for almost one hundred years, virtually unchallenged.

是历史上第一家价值超过十亿美元的公司 近一百年的时间里 它在钢铁行业的主导地位 都没有受到挑战

But the creation of U.S. Steel is only possible in this new era of unchecked monopolies.

但美国钢铁公司的创立 也只有在这垄断不受限制的新时代成为可能

An era Morgan helped create when he and his rivals put their President in the White House.

这一时代也是摩根及其对手通过扶植总统入住白宫而创造出来的

They may have helped to buy the President, but they can't avoid politics forever.

虽然他们一时购买了总统宝座 但他们终究不能永远回避政治

Their power over the nation's biggest industries soon catches the attention of an emerging politician, Theodore Roosevelt.

他们在国家最大的一些行业里的权势很快受到一位政治新星的关注 他就是西奥多·罗斯福