I got to go on The Today Show

我上了"今日秀"的节目
because I was the person who wrote the article in Trial Magazine,

因为我就是在《审判杂志》发表文章
and talk about this kind of thing.

并提出这些建议的那个人
As a result of all of that there was a tidal wave of litigation,

所有这些事情在诉讼界引起不小的波澜
so much so that at the end of 1985

因此在1985年底
when Ford Motor Company had to file its forms

福特汽车公司
with the Securities & Exchange Commission,

向证券交易委员
as corporations do,

会提交企业报告时
it said to the Securities & Exchange Commission that for that year 1985

它向证券交易委员会阐述了1985年
it had pending against it an airbag litigation claims

它因没有安全气囊而被起诉
the amount of $1.1 billion dollars.

还有十一亿美元等着它付
That, coincidentally or not, was also the year

或许是巧合也是在那年