1884, Iwasaki rents an old shipyard,The base for his company: Mitsubishi.
1884年 岩崎租用了一家旧船厂 为此后的三菱公司打下基础
The expertise that made swords will make ships from steel.
铸刀技术将用来制造 钢铁船
An iron and carbon alloy honed over centuries,
作为磨练了几百年的铁碳合金
Steel is a man-made super metal up to 10 times stronger than pure iron.
钢铁是人类创造的超级金属 强度可达纯铁的十倍
Today, we use 1.3 billion tons of it every year,
今天 我们每年要用掉十三亿吨的钢铁
enough to build the Empire State Building 20,000 times.
其量足以建造两万个帝国大厦
Iwasaki recruits western experts to learn the secrets of modern industry.
岩崎聘用一些西方专家 学习现代工业的秘密
By blasting oxygen through pig iron,it's possible to make steel ten times faster.
通过让氧气急速穿过生铁的方法 制钢速度可提高十倍
In just over a century,Mitsubishi becomes the world's largest corporation,building ships, planes and cars.
短短一百年时间 三菱成为世界上建造船只 飞机和汽车的 顶级公司
Asia's first industrial nation develops faster than any country on earth.
亚洲第一工业国家比世上任一国家 都发展迅速
Japan learns in a decade what the west developed in a century.
日本十年间学会了西方世界一百年发展的秘密
Today, it's the planet's third richest nation.
如今是地球上第三大富有国