Name: 有史以來最糟糕的 50 個錯誤 (50 Worst Mistakes Ever Made)
Uploaded: 2025-05-23T04:46:22.000Z
Duration: 59 min 35 s

情態助動詞 (推斷語氣)

One of the atomic reactors at the Chernobyl atomic power plant near the city of Kiev was damaged, and there is speculation in Moscow that people were injured and may have died.

基輔市附近切爾諾貝利核電站的一個原子反應堆受損，莫斯科方面猜測有人受傷，也可能有人死亡。

Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're looking at the greatest historical, financial, and technological blunders of all time.

歡迎來到 WatchMojo，今天我們來看看有史以來最偉大的歷史、金融和技術失誤。

There were witchcraft outbreaks all the time, all through the colonies, especially the northern colonies.

在殖民地，尤其是北部殖民地，巫術一直在爆發。

They were completely overwhelmed. Coast Guard didn't quite know what to do.

他們完全不知所措。海岸警衛隊不知所措。

Before Deepwater Horizon, the Exxon Valdez oil spill was the largest in American history, dumping more than 10 million gallons into Alaska's Prince William Sound.

在 "深水地平線 "事件之前，埃克森-瓦爾迪茲漏油事件是美國曆史上規模最大的漏油事件，向阿拉斯加威廉王子灣傾倒了超過 1000 萬加侖的石油。

But this accident is far less complex and is attributed almost entirely to human error.

但這起事故遠沒有那麼複雜，幾乎完全歸咎於人為失誤。

Shortly after midnight on March 24, 1989, the tanker ran aground on Bly Reef, puncturing eight of its 11 cargo holds.

1989 年 3 月 24 日午夜過後不久，這艘油輪在布里礁擱淺，11 個貨艙中有 8 個被刺穿。

When we got on the radio, he said, well, how big's the hole?

我們接通無線電後，他說，洞有多大？

I said, well, it's big enough to drive our boat through.

我說，嗯，它足夠大，可以把我們的船開過去。

At the time, Captain Joe Hazelwood was below decks, sleeping off, quote, two or three vodkas he had consumed earlier.

當時，喬-黑澤爾伍德船長正在甲板下呼呼大睡。

Furthermore, the crew was overworked and exhausted, contributing to third mate Gregory Cousins driving the vessel into the reef.

此外，船員們過度勞累，精疲力竭，導致三副 Gregory Cousins 駕船衝入暗礁。

Part of the blame also reportedly lay on the Exxon shipping company for failing to maintain the ship's collision avoidance system.

據報道，埃克森航運公司也應承擔部分責任，因為該公司未能對船上的防撞系統進行維護。

你可以看到油就像一個沸騰的小耳朵。

If you could oversee manning the walls, it would be a help.

如果你們能監督城牆的守衛工作，那將會很有幫助。

We should have six men to a cannon, 18 tubes, which works out to...

我們應該六人一炮，18個炮管，這樣算下來...

And we should have a man with a musket every four feet of wall.

我們應該每隔四英尺的牆壁就有一個手持火槍的人。

In 1836, the Texas Revolution was underway, with the Anglo-American residents of Texas fighting for independence from the Mexican Republic.

1836 年，得克薩斯革命正在進行，得克薩斯的英裔美國居民為從墨西哥共和國獨立而戰。

They were successful, winning 10 years of independence before joining the United States in 1846.

他們取得了成功，在 1846 年加入美國之前贏得了 10 年的獨立。

During the war, Mexican forces under General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna laid siege to the Alamo.

戰爭期間，安東尼奧-洛佩斯-德-聖安娜將軍率領的墨西哥軍隊圍攻阿拉莫。

After 13 days, roughly 1,500 Mexican soldiers launched a decisive attack, overwhelming the garrison of about 200 Texians after three attempts.

13 天后，大約 1,500 名墨西哥阿兵哥發起了決定性的進攻，經過三次嘗試後壓倒了約 200 名德克薩斯守軍。

It was a Pyrrhic victory, though, as the merciless bloodshed inspired many to join the army, hoping to take revenge for the loss of their fellow Texians.

但這只是一場慘勝，因為無情的殺戮激發了許多人加入軍隊，希望為失去的德克薩斯同胞復仇。

Mere weeks later, a now-fortified Texian army attacked the Mexicans by surprise in the Battle of San Jacinto, decimating them in just 18 minutes.

僅幾周後，經過強化的德克薩斯軍隊在聖哈辛托戰役中出其不意地襲擊了墨西哥人，僅用 18 分鐘就將其殲滅。

At this very moment, our soldiers are held in the Alamo against a force of thousands.

此時此刻，我們的阿兵哥正被困在阿拉莫，與成千上萬的軍隊對峙。

They put their hopes in Colonel Fannin, who, despite his pedigree, has proven himself ill-equipped to lead much less march an army.

他們把希望寄託在範寧上校身上，儘管他出身名門，但事實證明他不具備上司軍隊的能力，更不用說行軍了。

I call on you, in the name of liberty, to come to our aid with all dispatch.

我以自由的名義，呼籲你們儘快前來援助我們。

讚美你們所有人，歐爾班工程師。

The Roman Empire's final two centuries were their most difficult.

羅馬帝國的最後兩個世紀是最艱難的時期。

By 1452, the Ottoman Empire already had its eyes on Constantinople, which prompted Hungarian siege engineer Orban to offer his cannons to the Romans.

1452 年，奧斯曼帝國已經盯上了君士坦丁堡，這促使匈牙利攻城工程師歐爾班向羅馬人提供了他的大炮。

Unfortunately, they couldn't afford his services or provide the materials needed to construct his weapons.

不幸的是，他們負擔不起他的服務，也無法提供製造武器所需的材料。

So, Orban took his business to the Ottomans, who happily took him on.

於是，歐爾班把他的生意交給了奧斯曼人，奧斯曼人很高興地接受了他。

He crafted the basilic, one of the largest cannons in history, requiring 90 oxen and 400 men to transport it.

他精心製作了歷史上最大的大炮之一--玄武大炮，需要 90 頭牛和 400 個人來運輸。

Its cannonballs, each weighing 1,200 pounds, devastated the Theodosian walls, which were impenetrable for about 800 years prior.

它發射的炮彈每枚重達 1200 磅，摧毀了約 800 年前就堅不可摧的狄奧多西城牆。

The Ottoman Sultan also carried warships across the land, bypassing the harbor's great chain and giving them another huge advantage.

奧斯曼蘇丹還將戰艦運過陸地，繞過港口的大鐵鏈，給他們帶來了另一個巨大的優勢。

Maybe they're designed to reach astonishing depths, but that's no good if your submarine is incapable of surfacing again.

也許它們的設計可以達到驚人的深度，但如果你的潛艇無法再次浮出水面，那就不好了。

That's exactly what happened to the doomed Isak Peral class of Spanish submarine, when designers realized that somebody at some point had carelessly left a decimal point in the wrong place.

伊薩克-佩拉爾（Isak Peral）級西班牙潛艇的命運正是如此，因為設計人員發現，不知何時有人粗心地把小數點留錯了位置。

The sub was 100 tons heavier than it should be, meaning that if it submerged, it would never be able to return to the surface.

這艘潛艇比應有的重量重 100 噸，這意味著如果它沉入水下，將永遠無法返回水面。

Thankfully, the sub hadn't yet been built, so the schematics were changed to make it longer and capable of supporting all that extra weight.

幸運的是，當時潛艇還沒有製造出來，是以對設計圖進行了修改，使其更長，能夠支撐所有額外的重量。

只是後來又出現了另一個問題。

The sub was now too large to fit into the port where it was being constructed.

現在，這艘潛艇太大了，已經無法裝入正在建造的港口。

In 1985, about a century after Coca-Cola first hit shelves,

1985 年，在可口可樂首次上架約一個世紀後、

Coke decided to mix things up and rework the tried and tested Coke formula.

可口可樂公司決定改變一下，重新設計久經考驗的可樂配方。

The result was New Coke, one of the biggest marketing fails and disasters of all time.

結果，"新可樂 "成為史上最失敗和最慘痛的營銷事件之一。

The simple fact was that nobody really liked New Coke.

事實很簡單，沒有人真正喜歡新可樂。

Coke wanted to make its drink taste more like Pepsi, which is a little sweeter than Coke.

可口可樂希望讓自己的飲料喝起來更像百事可樂，而百事可樂比可口可樂更甜一些。

All the taste tests said people preferred the taste of this new product to the century old product.

所有的口味測試都表明，與百年前的產品相比，人們更喜歡這種新產品的口味。

What they hadn't factored in was the huge emotional attachment there was to this brand.

他們沒有考慮到的是，人們對這一品牌的情感依戀。

Though we understand trying to corner Pepsi's share of the market, consumer capitalism is about choice.

雖然我們理解百事可樂想要佔領市場份額的想法，但消費資本主義是關於選擇的。

Nobody wants to choose from two identical colas.

沒有人願意從兩種相同的可樂中做出選擇。

There was just no reason for Coke to try and destroy its own business by changing the recipe.

可口可樂沒有理由試圖通過改變配方來毀掉自己的業務。

Inaccurately describing the Zodiac Killer

對黃道十二宮殺手的描述不準確

The self-named Zodiac Killer held Northern California in a state of terror in the late 1960s.

20 世紀 60 年代末，自稱 "黃道十二宮殺手 "的人讓北加州陷入了恐怖之中。

The serial killer taunted police by sending multiple letters and ciphers to the local press.

連環殺手通過向當地媒體發送多封信件和密碼來嘲弄警方。

He includes a strange three-part coded message or cipher.

他包括一個奇怪的由三部分組成的密碼資訊或密碼。

Zodiac eluded authorities for a year before narrowly escaping capture in 1969.

黃道十二宮躲避了當局一年，1969 年才勉強逃脫追捕。

After shooting San Francisco taxi driver Paul Stein,

槍殺舊金山計程車司機保羅-斯坦恩後、

Zodiac was able to flee the scene because the physical description provided to police officers over dispatch was wrong.

黃道十二宮之所以能夠逃離現場，是因為調度中心向警察提供的體貌特徵描述有誤。

That they may have said something like, the man's wearing a black jacket or black pants.

他們可能會說，這個人穿著黑色夾克或黑色褲子。

And somehow the dispatcher misheard this and then repeated they were looking for a black man and then repeated they were looking for a black man instead of a white man.

不知怎麼的，調度員聽錯了，然後重複說他們在找一個黑人，然後又重複說他們在找一個黑人，而不是白人。

This mistake enabled Zodiac to walk directly by two police officers who unwittingly allowed the killer to escape.

這一失誤使黃道十二宮直接從兩名警察身邊走過，而這兩名警察無意中讓凶手逃脫了。

Investigators did not connect the shooting to Zodiac until the San Francisco Chronicle received a letter from the killer bragging about the murder and his close brush with the officers.

直到《舊金山紀事報》收到凶手的一封信，信中吹噓了這起謀殺案以及他與警官的親密接觸，調查人員才將這起槍擊案與黃道十二宮聯繫起來。

Confederate General Robert E. Lee made the biggest mistake of his life on July 3rd, 1863 when he ordered his troops to charge on Cemetery Ridge.

1863 年 7 月 3 日，邦聯將軍羅伯特-李（Robert E. Lee）命令部隊向墓地嶺發起衝鋒，這是他一生中犯下的最大錯誤。

Union General George G. Meade had anticipated Lee's attack on the center of his lines rather than the flanks and concentrated his defenses there.

聯邦將軍喬治-米德（George G. Meade）預料到李將軍會向他的防線中央而非側翼發起進攻，並將防禦力量集中在那裡。

The charge exposed Confederate soldiers to heavy artillery and rifle fire and the Army suffered catastrophic casualties.

這次衝鋒使南軍阿兵哥暴露在猛烈的炮火和步槍火力之下，軍隊遭受了災難性的傷亡。

It effectively crippled the Confederate forces at Gettysburg and forced Lee to abandon the battle and retreat from the North.

它有效地削弱了葛底斯堡的邦聯部隊，迫使李將軍放棄戰鬥，從北方撤退。

With this one simple charge, the tide of the American Civil War permanently shifted, all to the detriment of Lee and his forces.

僅憑這一次簡單的衝鋒，美國內戰的風向就發生了永久性的轉變，而這一切對李及其部隊都是不利的。

Gunpowder has been used by China since the 9th century.

中國早在 9 世紀就開始使用火藥。

Early Chinese alchemists were trying to create a potion for immortality.

中國早期的鍊金術士試圖創造一種長生不老藥。

Instead, what they created was a flammable powder that burned down many of their homes.

相反，他們製造的是一種易燃粉末，燒燬了許多人的家園。

Despite centuries of use and refinement, the Chinese were not the only ones to use gunpowder.

儘管經過幾個世紀的使用和改進，中國人並不是唯一使用火藥的人。

In the early 20th century, the Chinese were the only people to use gunpowder.

20 世紀初，中國人是唯一使用火藥的民族。

儘管經過了幾個世紀的使用和改進、

Beijing officials were criminally negligent in the spring of 1626.

It never seemed to occur to anyone in power that the center of a densely populated city wasn't the best choice for storing volatile materials.

當權者似乎從未想過，人口稠密的城市中心並不是儲存揮發性物質的最佳選擇。

Late on the morning of May 30th, for reasons which remain unclear, the Wang Gong Chang Armory exploded.

5 月 30 日深夜，王公廠軍械庫發生爆炸，原因至今不明。

Everything within four square kilometers was all but obliterated and debris was launched across the length of the city.

四平方公里範圍內的一切幾乎都被夷為平地，碎片橫掃整個城市。

Somewhere between 20,000 and 30,000 people were killed and large swaths of the city were utterly destroyed.

大約有 2 萬到 3 萬人喪生，城市的大片區域被徹底摧毀。

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