贪婪之梦1-英语听力

[00:00.30] [00:03.07]Welcome to the world of money.
欢迎各位来到金钱世界 [00:05.92]Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, the readies, the wherewithal.
金钱、现金、交子、钞票、资本、钱财、财富、金银财宝、收入利润 [00:16.14]Call it what you like, money can break us or it can make us.
无论怎么称呼，对于人类而言，成也金钱败也金钱 [00:22.92]In the past year, it's certainly broken more than a few of the biggest names on Wall Street and in the City of London.
在过去几年间，华尔街以及伦敦金融城中，很多大银行就因为“玩钱自焚”而纷纷倒闭 [00:34.22]And while former masters of the universe crash and burn,
曾经叱咤风云的操盘手们纷纷落马 [00:37.93]the rest of us are left worrying if our savings would be safer in a mattress than in a bank.
而身为芸芸众生的我们，则是纠结将毕生积蓄藏在床底下，是不是比存在银行更安全 [00:46.26]The great financial crisis that began in the summer of 2007 has most of us utterly baffled.
2007年的夏天，一场巨大的金融海啸席卷了全世界 [00:52.56]How on earth could a little local difficulty with subprime mortgages in the United States
为什么一次美国本土的次贷危机 [00:58.49]unleash an economic tsunami big enough to obliterate some of Wall Street's most illustrious names,
引发了一场如此之大的金融海啸，导致华尔街众多银行破产 [01:04.88]to force nationalisations of banks on both sides of the Atlantic
迫使大西洋两岸众多银行国有化 [01:08.97]and to bring the entire world economy to the very brink of recession, if not downright depression?
对世界经济的影响之大，即便没有一击致命，也将之推向崩溃边缘 [01:15.70]Shouldn't this series be called The Descent Of Money?
或许这个系列应该叫"金钱的没落" (注:本纪录片的英文原名为“The Ascent Of Money”) [01:18.94]Well, I want to explain to you just how money rose to play such a terrifyingly dominant role in all our lives.
好吧，我会向大家解释，金钱怎样成为了人类生活的主宰 [01:27.52]