Name: "世界是一家公司》（網絡，1976 年） ("The World is a Corporation" (Network, 1976))
Uploaded: 2025-08-28T23:05:12.000Z
Duration: 6 min 19 s

I have seen the shattering fulgurations of ultimate clarity.

I'm going to take you into our conference room.

Seems more seemly a setting for what I have to say to you.

我是從推銷員做起的，比厄先生

I sold sewing machines and automobile parts, hairbrushes and electronic equipment.

我賣過縫紉機、汽車零件、梳子和電子設備。

I'd like to try to sell something to you.

You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won't have it!

比厄先生，你干涉了大自然的原始力量 我不會讓你得逞的

Do you think you've merely stopped a business deal?

你認為你只是阻止了一樁生意嗎？

The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back!

阿拉伯人從這個國家拿走了數十億美元，現在他們必須把錢放回去！

You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples.

你是一個從國家和民族角度思考問題的老人。

There is only one holistic system of systems.

One vast and humane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars.

一個龐大的、人性化的、交織的、互動的、多元的、多國的美元統治。

Petrodollars, electrodollars, multidollars, Reichmarks, rims, rubles, pounds and shekels.

石油幣、電子貨幣、多幣種貨幣、萊克馬克、邊幣、盧布、英鎊和謝克爾。

It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet.

正是國際貨幣體系決定了地球上的全部生活。

That is the natural order of things today.

That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today.

這就是當今事物的原子、亞原子和星系結構。

And you have meddled with the primal forces of nature.

你們干涉了大自然的原始力量。

我說得夠清楚了嗎，比厄先生？

You get up on your little 21-inch screen and howl about America and democracy.

你站在 21 英寸的小螢幕上，嚎叫著美國和民主。

There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide and Exxon.

這裡只有 IBM、ITT、AT&T、杜邦、陶氏、聯合碳化物和埃克森。

Those are the nations of the world today.

What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state, Karl Marx?

卡爾-馬克思，你覺得俄國人在國務會議上都談些什麼？

They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do.

他們像我們一樣，拿出線性規劃圖、統計決策理論、最小解法，計算交易和投資的價格成本概率。

We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale.

我們不再生活在一個國家和意識形態的世界裡了，比厄先生。

The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business.

這個世界是一個公司的大學，由永恆不變的商業規則所決定。

這個世界就是一門生意，比厄先生

It has been since man crawled out of the slime.

自從人類從泥漿中爬出來後就一直如此。

And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that perfect world in which there is no war or famine, oppression or brutality.

比厄先生，我們的後代會活著看到那個沒有戰爭、沒有饑荒、沒有壓迫、沒有殘暴的完美世界。

One vast and ecumenical holding company for whom all men will work to serve a common profit in which all men will hold a share of stock, all necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused.

一個巨大的、普世的控股公司，所有人都將為它工作，為共同的利益服務，所有人都將在其中持有一份股票，所有的必需品都將得到滿足，所有的焦慮都將得到安撫，所有的無聊都將得到消遣。

And I have chosen you, Mr. Beale, to preach this eventual.

我選擇了你，比厄先生，來宣講這一終極目標。

Sixty million people watch you every night of the week, Monday through Friday.

從週一到週五，每晚都有六千萬人收看你們的節目。