of this great transportation revolution and all of this movement.

代表着伟大的交通革命及其所有运动
Although they too, they too brought dread with them.

尽管它们也带来了太多麻烦
One-third of every steamboat built

1850年以前美国制造的每三艘蒸汽船
in the United States before 1850 exploded and destroyed became a wreck.

就有一艘爆炸或毁坏彻底地报销
And there's no mistaking in Mark Twain's imagination,

也许你还记得马克吐温在
if you remember the scene in Huck Finn

《哈克贝利芬历险记》里对此的描述
I mean, among the hundred

我是指在《哈克贝利芬》里
eternal take-home images in Huck Finn is

上百幅经典场景中
that moment when Huck and Jim are on their raft,

有这样一个场景哈克和吉姆坐在木筏上
it's a little foggy, they can't quite see

周围雾气重重他们看不清周围的事物
they can hear--and pretty soon that steamboat

但是他们听见了蒸汽船的汽笛声
just smashes into that raft and over they go.

很快这艘船就撞碎了木筏飞驰而去