Amelia Earhart
Narrator: : On a summer day in 1932, Amelia Earhart completed another record-breaking flight.
旁白： 1932 年的一个夏日，阿米莉亚·埃尔哈特完成了另一次破纪录的飞行。
A few weeks earlier, she had made history by being the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.
几周前，她创造了历史，成为第一位独自飞越大西洋的女性。
Now she was a superstar and her every move fascinated the public.
现在她已经是超级明星了，她的一举一动都让公众着迷。
Amelia Earhart, Interview (archival): : Yesterday, I hopped off from Los Angeles about noontime and landed in Newark this morning after a non-stop transcontinental trip.
阿米莉亚·埃尔哈特 (Amelia Earhart)，采访（档案）： ：昨天中午，我在一次不间断的横贯大陆旅行后于今天早上从洛杉矶起飞，今天早上抵达纽瓦克。
Amelia Earhart, Interview (archival): : Well, I carried some water, of course, because my cockpit is very warm, and I carried a sandwich, in case.
阿米莉亚·埃尔哈特（Amelia Earhart），采访（档案）： ：嗯，我当然带了一些水，因为我的驾驶舱很暖和，我还带了一个三明治，以防万一。
I didn’t eat it, though.
不过我没吃。
I carried some hot chocolate and the all reliable tomato juice.
我带了一些热巧克力和可靠的番茄汁。
Gore Vidal, author: : I have walked the streets with many famous people in my time, from Greta Garbo to Paul Newman to Eleanor Roosevelt.
戈尔·维达尔（Gore Vidal），作者：：我曾与我那个时代的许多名人一起走过街道，从葛丽泰·嘉宝（Greta Garbo）到保罗·纽曼（Paul Newman）再到埃莉诺·罗斯福（Eleanor Roosevelt）。
No one got the crowd that Amelia got.
没有人能像阿米莉亚那样吸引那么多人。
She was — I must say it was beyond stardom.
她——我必须说，这已经超越了明星的范畴。
It was a strange continuum that she and Lindbergh occupied.
她和林德伯格占据了一个奇怪的连续体。
They were like gods from outer space.
他们就像来自外太空的神。
Doris Rich, biographer: : And people would just stand and stare at her.
多丽丝·里奇（Doris Rich），传记作者：：人们只是站着盯着她看。
Narrator: : Amelia Earhart was a legend, the first modern American heroine, adored because she was daring and successful in a man’s world, and because she was magnificently promoted in the press and newsreels of the time.
旁白：阿米莉亚·埃尔哈特是一位传奇人物，第一位现代美国女英雄，她之所以受到人们的喜爱，是因为她在男人的世界里勇敢而成功，而且因为她在当时的媒体和新闻片中得到了大力宣传。
Yet Amelia Earhart, the best known woman in America, would always remain curiously remote.
然而，美国最著名的女性阿米莉亚·埃尔哈特却总是保持着令人好奇的疏远。
“I don’t know you at all,” her closest friend wrote.
“我根本不认识你，”她最亲密的朋友写道。
“I doubt anyone does.”
“我怀疑有人这样做。”
Doris Rich, biographer: : The one thing that she really feared in life was that nothing would happen.
多丽丝·里奇（Doris Rich），传记作者：：她一生中真正担心的一件事就是什么都不会发生。
She had to have an important life, and that meant you had to have adventure.
她必须拥有重要的生活，这意味着你必须有冒险。
You had to try things that were exciting.
你必须尝试一些令人兴奋的事情。
And that — all her life, there’s no doubt that she needed this and believed this was the way to live.
而且，在她的一生中，毫无疑问她需要这个，并相信这就是生活方式。
Better to die young, but live.
最好英年早逝，但要活下去。
Narrator: : In 1937, Amelia Earhart decided to go for the one record in aviation no one, man or woman, had ever attempted before — to fly around the world at the equator.
旁白： 1937 年，阿米莉亚·埃尔哈特 (Amelia Earhart) 决定打破一项此前无人尝试过的航空纪录——在赤道上环游世界。
It would be the most dangerous flight of her life.
这将是她一生中最危险的一次飞行。
To succeed, Earhart would need months of preparation and a lot of luck.
为了取得成功，埃尔哈特需要数月的准备和大量的运气。
In the end, she had neither.
最终，她两者都没有。
First singer: : Come, Josephine, in my flying machine/ Going up she goes, up she goes/ Balance yourself like a bird on a beam/ In the air she goes.
第一个歌手：：来吧，约瑟芬，在我的飞行器中/她上升，她上升/像梁上的鸟一样平衡自己/她在空中飞行。
Where?/ There she goes, up, up a little bit higher.
哪里？/她在那里，向上，向上一点。
Oh, look…
哦，看……
Narrator: Like most Americans, Amelia was fascinated by the sheer novelty of flight.
旁白：像大多数美国人一样，阿米莉亚对飞行的纯粹新奇着迷。
On Christmas Day, 1920, when she was 23 years old, her father took her to the opening of a new airfield in Long Beach, California.
1920 年圣诞节，她 23 岁，父亲带她参观了加利福尼亚州长滩的一个新机场的启用仪式。
There she watched pilots in wood and fabric machines perform daredevil stunts.
在那里，她观看了驾驶木材和织物机器的飞行员表演大胆的特技表演。
A few days later, when she paid $5 for her first ride, she knew that flying was more than a passing fancy.
几天后，当她支付 5 美元第一次乘坐飞机时，她知道飞行不仅仅是一时的幻想。
“As soon as we left the ground,” she wrote, “I knew I myself had to fly.
“我们一离开地面，”她写道，“我知道我自己必须飞翔。
'I think I’d like to fly,’ I told my family casually that evening, knowing full well I’d die if I didn’t.”
“我想我想飞翔，”那天晚上我随意地告诉家人，我很清楚如果不飞的话我就会死。”
Amelia Mary Earhart was raised by her domineering mother to be a proper Victorian young lady, but she never was.
阿米莉亚·玛丽·埃尔哈特 (Amelia Mary Earhart) 被她专横的母亲抚养长大，成为一名维多利亚时代的年轻女士，但她从来都不是。
Doris Rich, biographer: : When Earhart was seven years old, she had a new sled and she went to the top of the hill with her sister Muriel and she, instead of sitting on it as her grandmother had said one must, she flung herself in a manner called “belly slamming” and went tearing down the hill.
多丽丝·里奇（Doris Rich），传记作者：埃尔哈特七岁时，她有了一辆新雪橇，她和妹妹穆里尔一起登上了山顶，但她并没有像祖母所说的那样坐在雪橇上，而是以一种被称为“腹部撞击”的方式猛扑过去，然后从山上冲下来。
A horse and wagon was crossing on the cross street.
一匹马和一辆马车正穿过十字路口。
She went right under that horse’s belly.
她就在那匹马的肚子下面。
She missed both sets of legs and she emerged triumphant, waving at her sister afterwards.
她的两条腿都错失了，她得意洋洋地向姐姐挥手致意。
This is an indication that came up again and again later in life, that she took good luck for granted.
这表明她在以后的生活中一次又一次地出现，表明她认为好运气是理所当然的。
Narrator: : Amelia was resilient in spite of a difficult childhood.
旁白：：尽管童年困难，阿米莉亚却很坚强。
Born in Kansas on July 24, 1897, she and her younger sister Muriel had an unstable life, shuttling back and forth between their grandparents’ luxurious home in Atchison and their parents’ meager existence in Kansas City.
1897 年 7 月 24 日出生于堪萨斯州，她和妹妹穆里尔的生活不稳定，在祖父母位于艾奇逊的豪华住宅和父母在堪萨斯城的贫困生活之间来回穿梭。
Amelia’s father, Edwin, was a charming man who earned a modest living as a lawyer, but it was never enough for Amelia’s mother Amy.
阿米莉亚的父亲埃德温是一位迷人的男人，作为一名律师过着微薄的生活，但这对阿米莉亚的母亲艾米来说永远不够。
During the course of their troubled marriage, Edwin became an alcoholic.
在他们陷入困境的婚姻过程中，埃德温成了一名酒鬼。
When Amelia was 12, the Earharts left Kansas, moving around the Midwest, settling wherever Edwin could find work.
阿米莉亚 12 岁时，埃尔哈特一家离开堪萨斯州，在中西部地区搬家，在埃德温能找到工作的任何地方定居。
Amelia adored her father, but he let her down so often she learned early on to be self-reliant.
阿米莉亚很崇拜她的父亲，但他经常让她失望，她很早就学会了自力更生。
During high school, she kept an unusual scrapbook of articles about women pioneering in new careers.
高中期间，她保存了一本不同寻常的剪贴簿，里面收录了有关女性开拓新职业的文章。
The scrapbook reveals a young girl with unconventional dreams.
剪贴簿揭示了一个有着非传统梦想的年轻女孩。
Nancy Morse, Earhart’s cousin: : She was a loner, you know.
埃尔哈特的表弟南希·莫尔斯：你知道，她是一个孤独的人。
She had seen so much change in her childhood — she’d lived in many different places, she’d gone to many different schools — and naturally, this resulted in a kind of restlessness.
她在童年时期经历了如此多的变化——她住在很多不同的地方，上过很多不同的学校——自然地，这导致了一种不安。
I think Amelia got easily bored.
我认为阿米莉亚很容易感到无聊。
Narrator: : Sent to a finishing school in Pennsylvania, Amelia didn’t fit the mold and was kicked out for stunts like walking on the roof in her nightgown.
旁白：：阿米莉亚被送到宾夕法尼亚州的一所精修学校，她不符合模式，因穿着睡衣在屋顶上行走等特技而被开除。
She was a rebel and had high ideals.
她是一个叛逆者，有着崇高的理想。
During World War I, she nursed wounded veterans in Canada and briefly pursued a career in medicine.
第一次世界大战期间，她在加拿大护理受伤的退伍军人，并短暂从事医学事业。
In her early 20’s, Earhart was living in Los Angeles with her parents when she discovered flying.
20 岁出头时，埃尔哈特与父母一起住在洛杉矶，当时她发现了飞行。
At Kinner Airfield, she met a young woman who agreed to teach her to fly for a dollar a minute.
在金纳机场，她遇到了一位年轻女子，她同意教她飞行，每分钟一美元。
Earhart regularly walked the three miles to the airfield, took menial jobs to pay for lessons, and drove a gravel truck for a construction company to raise money to buy her own plane.
埃尔哈特经常步行三英里去机场，做一些卑微的工作来支付学费，并为一家建筑公司开一辆碎石卡车，以筹集资金购买自己的飞机。
Amelia’s mother demanded her daughter stop driving a truck and act like a lady.
阿米莉亚的母亲要求她的女儿停止开卡车，表现得像个淑女。
Reluctantly, she helped Amelia out, and by her 25th birthday, Earhart finally had the cash she needed.
她不情愿地帮助了阿米莉亚，到她 25 岁生日时，埃尔哈特终于拿到了她需要的现金。
She bought a new biplane and painted it bright yellow.
她买了一架新双翼飞机并将其漆成亮黄色。
The amateur flier was also a novice poet.
这位业余飞行员也是一位新手诗人。
In the spring of 1921, she submitted several poems to a journal under the pen name Emil A.
1921 年春天，她以笔名 Emil A. 向一家期刊提交了几首诗。
Hart.
哈特。
They were never published, but one was about her newest passion.
它们从未出版过，但其中一篇是关于她最新的热情的。
From an airplane, even the watchful purple hills that hold the lake could not see so well as I the stain of evening creeping from its heart.
从飞机上看，即使是湖边那座警惕的紫色山丘也无法像我一样清楚地看到从湖心蔓延的傍晚的污点。
From the beginning, Earhart saw herself in the vanguard.
从一开始，埃尔哈特就将自己视为先锋。
She was a flier, a poet and an amateur photographer.
她是一名飞行员、诗人和业余摄影师。
She was supporting herself and though there were suitors, she rejected a traditional marriage as too confining.
她自力更生，尽管也有追求者，但她拒绝传统婚姻，因为这种婚姻太有限制。
“I don’t want anything all of the time,” she said.
“我一直不想要任何东西，”她说。
First Newsreel Announcer (archival): : And my baby is plotting the darndest revolution in history.
第一个新闻片播音员（档案）：：我的宝贝正在策划历史上最可怕的革命。
“It won’t be long now,” announce the girls as they head from the polling booth to the barbershop, disregarding the warning of an alarmed press…
“不会太久了，”女孩们从投票站前往理发店时宣布，无视媒体惊慌的警告……
Narrator: : With the suffrage battle behind them, women like Earhart set out to redefine themselves.
旁白：随着选举权斗争的结束，像埃尔哈特这样的女性开始重新定义自己。
In keeping with the times, she cut her hair, but cut it inch by inch so her mother wouldn’t notice.
为了与时俱进，她剪掉了头发，但是一寸一寸地剪，以免母亲注意到。
In 1925, Amelia moved to Boston, finding work in a settlement house with the children of Chinese and Syrian immigrants.
1925 年，阿米莉亚搬到波士顿，在一个安置点找到了工作，照顾中国和叙利亚移民的孩子。
Her supervisor thought she was a natural and promoted her quickly.
她的上司认为她很优秀，很快就把她提拔了。
Earhart felt she’d found her true calling.
埃尔哈特觉得她找到了自己真正的使命。
Flying was now a weekend hobby, but in the spring of 1928, George Palmer Putnam, a successful publisher and promoter — known as G.P.
飞行现在已成为一种周末爱好，但在 1928 年春天，乔治·帕尔默·帕特南（George Palmer Putnam），一位成功的出版商和推广人——被称为 G.P.
— came into Earhart’s life.
——进入了埃尔哈特的生活。
Brad Washburn, explorer, aerial photographer: : G.P.
Brad Washburn，探险家、航空摄影师：：G.P.
was a very clever publisher.
是一位非常聪明的出版商。
Every series of years you have somebody who rises to the top of the publishing business and then fades gently down and somebody else — and there’s a publisher who is the top of the pile.
每隔几年，就会有人上升到出版业的顶峰，然后慢慢地衰落，还有其他人——总有一个出版商是最顶尖的。
And in that moment, Putnam’s was and Putnam was always in there at the kill and always getting the number one fellow to write the book.
在那一刻，普特南就是这样，普特南总是在杀戮中，总是让第一人写这本书。
Narrator: : Putnam’s best seller was a book by Charles Lindbergh about his historic Atlantic solo flight the year before.
旁白：普特南的畅销书是查尔斯·林德伯格（Charles Lindbergh）写的一本关于他前一年历史性的单人大西洋飞行的书。
Now G.P.
现在G.P.
had a new book in mind.
心里有一本新书。
He had been hired to find the right sort of girl to be the first woman to fly across the Atlantic.
他受雇是为了寻找合适的女孩成为第一个飞越大西洋的女性。
Earhart’s name had surfaced through Boston aviation circles, and she was invited to New York to meet G.P.
埃尔哈特的名字在波士顿航空界广为人知，她被邀请前往纽约会见 G.P.
Her own account of the meeting reveals just how shrewd she was.
她自己对这次会面的描述揭示了她是多么精明。
“If I were found wanting on too many counts, I should be deprived of a trip.
“如果我被发现在很多方面不合格，我就应该被剥夺旅行的机会。
On the other hand, if I were just too fascinating, the gallant gentleman might be loath to drown me.
反之，如果我太过迷人，那位殷勤的绅士可能会舍不得把我淹死。
It was therefore necessary for me to maintain an attitude of impenetrable mediocrity.”
因此，我必须保持一种坚不可摧的平庸态度。”
Doris Rich, biographer: : And G.P.
多丽丝·里奇（Doris Rich），传记作者：：还有 G.P.
knew when he looked at her that this was “Lady Lindy.” This was going to the female Lindbergh.
当他看到她时，他就知道这是“林迪女士”。这是给女性林德伯格的。
Narrator: : Earhart’s remarkable resemblance to Lindbergh, the most famous man in America, made her a publicist’s dream.
旁白：埃尔哈特与美国最著名的人物林德伯格的惊人相似使她成为公关人员的梦想。
Putnam asked her to make the transatlantic flight not as the pilot but as a passenger.
普特南要求她不要以飞行员的身份，而是以乘客的身份进行跨大西洋飞行。
Amelia jumped at the chance.
阿米莉亚抓住了这个机会。
From this point on, she would be promoted not only for her flying skill, but also for her wholesome beauty and personal appeal.
从此以后，她的晋升不仅是因为她的飞行技术，还因为她健康的美丽和个人魅力。
Nonetheless, the flight was a very dangerous undertaking.
尽管如此，这次飞行是一项非常危险的任务。
Susan Ware, historian: : It did take great courage to say yes to this proposition, to agree to fly the Atlantic.
历史学家苏珊·韦尔（Susan Ware）：：接受这个提议，同意飞越大西洋，确实需要很大的勇气。
I think 14 people had been killed just in the year since Lindbergh had tried, including three women.
我认为自林德伯格尝试以来的一年内已有 14 人被杀，其中包括三名女性。
So that when she took off in that plane, even as a passenger, she did not know that she was going to make it.
因此，当她乘坐那架飞机起飞时，即使作为乘客，她也不知道自己能成功。
She could have lost her life.
她可能会失去生命。
Narrator: : The Friendship flight, as it was called, was planned in secrecy, both to capitalize on the drama of the event and to beat out two other women contemplating the same mission.
旁白： 所谓的友谊飞行是秘密计划的，既是为了利用这一事件的戏剧性，也是为了击败另外两名正在考虑执行同一任务的女性。
On July 3, 1928, decked in a fur-lined flight suit, Amelia joined pilot Wilmer Stultz and mechanic Louis Gordon.
1928 年 7 月 3 日，阿米莉亚穿着毛皮衬里的飞行服，加入了飞行员威尔默·斯图尔茨 (Wilmer Stultz) 和机械师路易斯·戈登 (Louis Gordon) 的行列。
George Putnam was there to see them off.
乔治·普特南在那里为他们送行。
Without fanfare, the fuel-laden bright orange Friendship took off from Boston Harbor in the wee hours of the morning.
清晨，这架充满燃料的亮橙色友谊号悄无声息地从波士顿港起飞。
Doris Rich, biographer: : The plane barely got off.
多丽丝·里奇（Doris Rich），传记作者：：飞机勉强起飞。
When it did, it tipped and a door opened, and she went rolling across the floor of the airplane, managed to grab a fuel tank and just steadied herself in time while the engineer leaped over and shut the door and actually tied it shut with a rope and off they went.
当它发生时，飞机倾斜了，一扇门打开了，她在飞机地板上滚动，设法抓住一个油箱，及时稳住自己，而工程师跳过去，关上门，实际上用绳子把它绑起来，然后他们就出发了。
The whole Friendship flight was pretty much one occasion like this after another.
整个友谊航班几乎就是这样一个又一个的场合。
They had to land first in Nova Scotia and they waited 13 days in the pouring rain.
他们必须先在新斯科舍省降落，在倾盆大雨中等待了13天。
And meantime, the pilot, Wilmer Stultz, proceeded to be dead drunk most of the time.
与此同时，飞行员威尔默·斯图尔茨(Wilmer Stultz)大部分时间都喝得酩酊大醉。
On the 13th night, they sat down together and they said, “No matter what shape Stultz is in, we’re leaving tomorrow.”
13日晚上，他们坐在一起说：“无论斯图尔茨的状态如何，我们明天都会离开。”
Narrator: : Within hours after takeoff, the plane was enveloped by fog, then snow and ice.
旁白： ：起飞后几个小时内，飞机就被雾气笼罩，然后是冰雪。
The radio went dead.
收音机坏了。
They were flying blind.
他们盲目地飞行。
With little fuel remaining, they finally spotted land.
在燃料所剩无几的情况下，他们终于发现了陆地。
After 20 hours and 40 minutes, the Friendship set down in Burryport, Wales.
20小时40分钟后，友谊号在威尔士巴里波特降落。
In no time at all, 2,000 people were at the dock to greet her, clamoring to shake her hand and get her autograph.
很快，就有2000人在码头迎接她，吵着要与她握手并索要签名。
Susan Ware, historian: : I don’t think she had any idea that she would encounter the kind of celebrity that she did when she agreed to be part of the Friendship crew.
历史学家苏珊·韦尔（Susan Ware）：我认为她根本不知道自己会遇到像她同意加入友谊号船员那样的名人。
I think she was just dumbfounded that people were so concerned about her.
我认为她只是因为人们如此关心她而感到惊讶。
She kept saying, “But the boys, they did all the flying.”
她一直说，“但是男孩们，他们完成了所有的飞行。”
Narrator: : But Stultz and Gordon were ignored by the press.
旁白：：但是媒体忽视了斯图尔茨和戈登。
The hero was the passenger.
英雄是乘客。
When the Friendship landed in England for the official welcome, another huge crowd waited to see Amelia.
当友谊号抵达英国接受官方欢迎时，另一群人等待着见到阿米莉亚。
Just weeks earlier, Earhart was earning $60 a month as a social worker.
就在几周前，埃尔哈特作为一名社会工作者每月赚取 60 美元。
Now she was having tea with George Bernard Shaw, dancing with the Prince of Wales, and dining with Lady Astor.
现在她正在与萧伯纳喝茶，与威尔士亲王跳舞，与阿斯特夫人共进晚餐。
George Putnam had picked a winner.
乔治·普特南选出了一位获胜者。
British Newsreel (archival): : Here you see “Lady Lindy,” whose triumphant flight across the Atlantic is the admiration of the whole world.
英国新闻影片（档案）： ：在这里您可以看到“林迪女士”，她成功飞越大西洋，受到了全世界的钦佩。
What a wonderful woman, and isn’t she like Lindbergh?
多么美妙的女人啊，她不是像林德伯格吗？
Narrator: : Back home, the fliers received America’s version of a royal welcome — a New York City ticker tape parade.
旁白：：回到家后，传单受到了美国版的皇家欢迎——纽约市的纸带游行。
Amelia was always quick to note that she didn’t deserve the credit and said she had merely been a sack of potatoes who kept the log, but nobody seemed to listen.
阿米莉亚总是很快指出她不值得这份荣誉，并说她只是一袋保存日志的土豆，但似乎没有人听。
After New York, Amelia was honored in celebrations around the country, all arranged by the consummate promoter, George Palmer Putnam.
纽约之后，阿米莉亚在全国各地的庆祝活动中受到表彰，所有这些活动都是由完美的发起人乔治·帕尔默·普特南安排的。
Gore Vidal, author: : I never knew anybody who liked George Palmer Putnam.
戈尔·维达尔（Gore Vidal），作者：：我从来不认识任何人喜欢乔治·帕尔默·普特南。
It was quite interesting.
这很有趣。
Everybody who knew him disliked him.
所有认识他的人都不喜欢他。
Some people disliked him more than others and some people disliked him and found him amusing, and some people disliked him and found him unamusing.
有些人比其他人更不喜欢他，有些人不喜欢他，觉得他很有趣，有些人不喜欢他，觉得他无趣。
Doris Rich, biographer: : He was a superb editor and a better publicist, could be enormously charming and be totally insulting at times to people.
多丽丝·里奇（Doris Rich），传记作者：：他是一位出色的编辑和更好的公关人员，可能非常有魅力，但有时却完全侮辱人们。
His language ranged from the erudite to really ugly profanity.
他的语言从博学到极其丑陋的脏话不等。
He was just a very complex, driven man.
他是一个非常复杂、有动力的人。
Narrator: : In the summer of 1928 at the age of 31, Earhart was set up in G.P.'s elegant home in Rye, New York to write what G.P.
旁白： 1928 年夏天，31 岁的埃尔哈特被安置在 G.P. 位于纽约拉伊的优雅住宅中，撰写 G.P. 的作品。
hoped would be his next best seller, 20 Hours 40 Minutes: The Story of the Friendship Flight .
希望这会是他的下一本畅销书《20 小时 40 分钟：友谊航班的故事》。
In the fall, Amelia took off on a month-long trip around the country in a small biplane Putnam had bought her, giving hundreds of speeches and interviews G.P.
秋天，阿米莉亚乘坐普特南给她买的一架小型双翼飞机开始了为期一个月的全国旅行，并发表了数百场演讲和接受 G.P. 采访。
had scheduled.
已安排。
In effect, he became her manager.
实际上，他成了她的经理。
He told her not to wear hats because they obscured her tousled hair.
他告诉她不要戴帽子，因为帽子遮住了她凌乱的头发。
He told her to close her mouth when she smiled, to hide the space between her two front teeth.
他告诉她微笑时闭上嘴，隐藏两颗门牙之间的空间。
Amelia and G.P.
阿米莉亚和 G.P.
were inseparable and there were rumors of an affair.
形影不离，还传出了绯闻。
Sally Chapman, George Putnam’s granddaughter: : I think that my grandfather and my grandmother had not been happy for some time and when Amelia came into the picture, my grandfather of course became busier and busier with her and started spending less time and less time at home with my grandmother.
莎莉·查普曼，乔治·帕特南的孙女：我认为我的祖父和祖母已经有一段时间不开心了，当阿米莉亚出现时，我的祖父当然变得越来越忙于照顾她，并开始花越来越少的时间在家里陪伴我的祖母。
One thing led to another and a relationship did develop.
一件事引发了另一件事，一段关系确实发展了。
What can I say?
我能说什么？
That’s what happened.
这就是发生的事情。
Narrator: : Being “Lady Lindy” was a full-time job.
旁白：：成为“林迪女士”是一份全职工作。
“Here I am, jumping through hoops,” she wrote, “just like the little white horse in the circus,” but Earhart was ambitious and willing to pay the price.
“我在这里，跳过铁环，”她写道，“就像马戏团里的小白马一样，”但埃尔哈特雄心勃勃，愿意付出代价。
G.P.
GP
scheduled a growing number of appearances, lectures and product endorsements.
安排了越来越多的露面、讲座和产品代言。
He also arranged a position for her as the aviation editor of Cosmopolitan magazine.
他还为她安排了《Cosmopolitan》杂志的航空编辑职位。
Her celebrity status made her invaluable to the emerging airline industry.
她的名人地位使她对新兴的航空业具有无价的价值。
She became fast friends with one of its pioneers, Eugene Vidal, Gore’s father, and together they helped launch the country’s first passenger airline, Transcontinental Air Transport.
她与该公司的先驱之一、戈尔的父亲尤金·维达尔（Eugene Vidal）成为了好朋友，他们一起帮助创办了该国第一家客运航空公司——横贯大陆航空运输公司。
Second Newsreel Announcer (archival): : The big tri-motor, all-metal plane is ready and waiting, equipped like a Pullman car.
第二个新闻片播音员（档案）： ：大型三电机全金属飞机已经准备就绪，等待着，装备就像普尔曼汽车一样。
Its roomy cabin is well lighted and heated in wintertime.
其宽敞的小屋在冬季光线充足且供暖。
Gore Vidal, author: : And my mother was probably the first airline stewardess, just to make sure that the people were contented and what would they eat, let us say.
戈尔·维达尔（Gore Vidal），作者：：我的母亲可能是第一位空姐，只是为了确保人们感到满足以及他们会吃什么，让我们说。
And she was always dieting and very grand.
而且她一直在节食，而且非常盛大。
She thought consommé would be perfect.
她认为清汤是完美的。
Well, they were all scalded on that flight, 'cause the planes would be going up and down like that, and the fumes from the gas were terrible inside.
好吧，他们在那趟航班上都被烫伤了，因为飞机会像那样上下飞行，而且里面的汽油烟雾很可怕。
And in front of every seat, there’d be this huge ice cream, cardboard cylinder in which people would vomit during the flight, and it was a mess.
每个座位前面都有一个巨大的冰淇淋，纸板筒，人们在飞行过程中会在里面呕吐，场面一片混乱。
Narrator: : At the dawn of aviation, women were not trusted to pilot passenger planes.
旁白：：在航空业初期，人们不信任女性驾驶客机。
Earhart’s contribution was confined to public relations.
埃尔哈特的贡献仅限于公共关系。
Passenger (archival): : You know, Miss Earhart, we’ve had a marvelous trip and going back the same way.
乘客（档案）：：你知道，埃尔哈特小姐，我们度过了一次美妙的旅行，并以同样的方式返回。
Narrator: : To stay in the limelight, Earhart needed another high-profile event.
旁白：：为了保持聚光灯下，埃尔哈特需要另一场备受瞩目的活动。
Just before her 32nd birthday, Amelia and George used the proceeds from her lectures and endorsements to buy a bigger and faster plane.
就在她 32 岁生日之前，阿米莉亚和乔治用她的演讲和代言所得的收益购买了一架更大、更快的飞机。
Flying her new Lockheed Vega, she could now compete with the top pilots in the first cross-country Women’s Air Derby.
驾驶她的新洛克希德维加飞机，她现在可以在首届越野女子空中德比中与顶级飞行员竞争。
In the summer of 1929, Earhart was one of 20 contestants to enter the derby.
1929 年夏天，埃尔哈特是参加德比赛的 20 名参赛者之一。
Bobbi Trout was another.
博比·特劳特是另一个。
Bobbi Trout, record-breaking aviator: : We were characters and a devil breed.
博比·特劳特 (Bobbi Trout)，破纪录的飞行员：：我们是人物，也是魔鬼品种。
That was all there was to it.
这就是全部了。
I think that most women who really took up flying knew that it was a dangerous business in those days, in the early days, but it was such an interesting and such a wonderful thing to do so, well, it was like a magnet, you know.
我认为大多数真正开始飞行的女性都知道，在早期，这是一项危险的工作，但这样做是一件非常有趣和美妙的事情，嗯，它就像一块磁铁，你知道。
It just drew people to it.
它只是吸引了人们。
Second Reporter (archival): : In ship number six is the world-famous Amelia Earhart, first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.
第二位记者（档案）： ：世界著名的阿米莉亚·埃尔哈特（Amelia Earhart）乘坐六号船，她是第一位飞越大西洋的女性。
She is flying a Lockheed Vega.
她驾驶的是洛克希德·维加（Lockheed Vega）飞机。
Narrator: : But Earhart’s flying ability had not caught up with her fame, and some of the other fliers knew it.
旁白：：但是埃尔哈特的飞行能力还没有赶上她的名气，其他一些飞行员也知道这一点。
Elinor Smith, Voted Best Woman Pilot, 1930: : It was a skill.
埃莉诺·史密斯 (Elinor Smith)，被评选为 1930 年最佳女飞行员：：这是一项技能。
It was not like today where you can almost do it on the numbers.
不像今天，你几乎可以通过数字来做到这一点。
So you had to fly every single day.
所以你每天都必须飞行。
Maybe Amelia would have been a natural had she had the proper instruction and the amount of practice that went into it, but she never seemed to practice, to really stick at it.
如果阿米莉亚得到适当的指导和大量的练习，也许她会很自然，但她似乎从来没有练习过，也没有真正坚持下去。
Narrator: : After eight days, 15 women crossed the finish line in Cleveland.
旁白：：八天后，15 名女性冲过了克利夫兰的终点线。
Amelia came in a distant third.
阿米莉亚位列第三。
Elinor Smith, Voted Best Woman Pilot, 1930: : That was the fastest and the most powered airplane in that race.
埃莉诺·史密斯 (Elinor Smith)，被评选为 1930 年最佳女飞行员： ：那是那场比赛中速度最快、动力最强的飞机。
She still couldn’t land it in Cleveland in front of everybody.
她仍然无法在所有人面前将其降落在克利夫兰。
Just ka-bum, ka-bum, ka-bum, ka-bum all the way across the airport.
穿过机场，一路都是卡-卡-卡-卡-卡-卡-卡-卡-卡-卡-卡-卡-卡-卡-卡-卡-卡-卡-卡-卡-班。
Narrator: : After the air derby, Amelia was thrown into emotional chaos.
旁白：：空中德比结束后，阿米莉亚陷入了情绪混乱。
She was supporting her mother and sister, her father had died of cancer, and G.P., who had finally gotten a divorce, was pressuring her to marry him.
她赡养母亲和妹妹，父亲因癌症去世，而最终离婚的G.P.却向她施压，要求她嫁给他。
Speculation about a possible marriage was front-page news for weeks.
关于可能结婚的猜测连续几周成为头条新闻。
When asked about her plans by a reporter, Amelia answered, “Sometime in the next 50 years I may be married,” but privately Amelia had made her decision.
当记者问及她的计划时，阿米莉亚回答说：“未来50年的某个时候，我可能会结婚。”但私下里，阿米莉亚已经做出了决定。
Bobbi Trout, record-breaking aviator: : The reason I think Amelia gave in to G.P.
博比·特劳特 (Bobbi Trout)，破纪录的飞行员：：我认为阿米莉亚屈服于 G.P. 的原因是
and married him was because he was a darn good promoter, and after all, the promotion that he did would bring in money and that was hard to get during the Depression, and she was smart enough to know that.
之所以嫁给他，是因为他是一个非常好的推销员，毕竟他所做的推销会带来金钱，而这在大萧条时期是很难得到的，而她很聪明，知道这一点。
Sally Chapman, George Putnam’s granddaughter: : This is what she wanted.
莎莉·查普曼，乔治·普特南的孙女：：这就是她想要的。
When she met him, she knew that this man could help her get this job done and he knew when he met her that this was going to provide him with a new future.
当她遇见他时，她知道这个男人可以帮助她完成这项工作，当他遇见她时，他知道这将为他提供新的未来。
So it was an incredible combination, these two people together.
所以这两个人在一起是一个令人难以置信的组合。
Gore Vidal, author: : Well, she was marrying her manager.
戈尔·维达尔（Gore Vidal），作者： ：嗯，她要嫁给她的经理了。
This is what great actresses do.
这就是伟大女演员所做的。
At some point, every great actress marries the manager, or settles down in a relationship with the manager.
在某个时刻，每一位伟大的女演员都会与经理结婚，或者与经理建立关系。
She settled down with her manager.
她和她的经理安顿下来。
He made life very easy for her in many ways and heaven knows he was a hustler, he was a promoter, and she was ambitious.
他在很多方面让她的生活变得非常轻松，天知道他是一个骗子，他是一个推销员，而她雄心勃勃。
Narrator: : Whatever her reasons for agreeing to marry G.P., Amelia had not resolved her ambivalence.
旁白：无论她同意嫁给G.P.的原因是什么，阿米莉亚都没有解决她的矛盾心理。
On the morning of the wedding, she presented him with a startling letter.
婚礼当天早上，她给了他一封令人震惊的信。
“Dear Gyp: You must know again my reluctance to marry.
“亲爱的吉普：你一定又知道我不愿意结婚了。
I feel the move just now is foolish as anything I could do.
我觉得刚才的举动是愚蠢的。
I may have to keep some place where I can go to be myself now and then.
我可能必须保留一些我可以时不时做我自己的地方。
I cannot guarantee to endure at all times the confinement of even an attractive cage.
我不能保证始终忍受即使是一个有吸引力的笼子的限制。
I must exact a cruel promise and that is that you will let me go in a year if we find no happiness together.” Wearing a tailored brown suit, Amelia Earhart married George Putnam at a small private ceremony on February 7, 1931.
我必须做出一个残酷的承诺，那就是，如果我们在一起没有幸福，一年后你就放我走。” 1931 年 2 月 7 日，阿米莉亚·埃尔哈特 (Amelia Earhart) 身穿剪裁考究的棕色西装，在一场小型私人仪式上与乔治·普特南 (George Putnam) 结婚。
As if to assure herself and the world that marriage wasn’t a cage, she took no honeymoon and was back at work the next day.
仿佛是为了向自己和世界保证婚姻不是牢笼，她没有度蜜月，第二天就回去工作了。
Before long, Earhart and Putnam were secretly planning another flight.
不久之后，埃尔哈特和普特南秘密计划另一次飞行。
Amelia wanted to be the first person to fly the Atlantic alone since Lindbergh.
阿米莉亚想成为继林德伯格之后第一个独自飞越大西洋的人。
This time she would pilot the plane and finally prove her flying ability.
这次她要驾驶飞机，终于证明自己的飞行能力。
But that wasn’t the only reason.
但这并不是唯一的原因。
Doris Rich, biographer: : She was beginning to understand what G.P.
多丽丝·里奇（Doris Rich），传记作者：：她开始理解 G.P.
was teaching her, that you don’t stay in the headlines forever for one deed, that there must be a continuing and accelerated, almost, series in which you prove again and again, and more so, if possible, how good you are.
告诉她，你不会因为一件事情而永远成为头条新闻，必须有一个持续的、加速的、几乎是一系列的事情，在其中你一次又一次地证明，如果可能的话，更重要的是，证明你有多优秀。
Narrator: : But when Amelia announced the Atlantic flight, even she seemed to have trouble believing she could do it.
旁白：：但是当阿米莉亚宣布飞往大西洋的航班时，连她自己似乎都不敢相信自己能做到。
Amelia Earhart (archival): : I think I’m ready for a transatlantic hop.
阿米莉亚·埃尔哈特（档案）：：我想我已经准备好跨越大西洋了。
I’ve chosen to use a plane with which I am familiar, having flown it at least three years.
我选择使用一架我熟悉的飞机，并且已经飞行了至少三年。
I think I couldn’t have undertaken this trip unless I had confidence in the plane, the engine and perhaps my own experience.
我认为除非我对飞机、发动机以及我自己的经验有信心，否则我不可能进行这次旅行。
Well, how’s the weather now, Bert?”
嗯，现在天气怎么样，伯特？”
Narrator: : Delayed for weeks because of bad weather, Amelia was ready to take off from New Jersey.
旁白：：由于天气恶劣，延误了数周，阿米莉亚准备从新泽西州起飞。
G.P.
GP
arranged for newsreel cameras to cover the takeoff.
安排新闻影片摄像机来报道起飞过程。
George Palmer Putnam (archival): Well, you’re off.
乔治·帕尔默·帕特南（档案）：好吧，你走了。
Say, how does it look in there?
说说看，里面怎么样？
Narrator: : Amelia was too embarrassed to kiss G.P.
旁白：：阿米莉亚不好意思亲吻 G.P.
goodbye, so there was a second take.
再见，所以还有第二次拍摄。
George Palmer Putnam (archival): : Please don’t forget to phone just the minute you get there, eh?
乔治·帕尔默·普特南（George Palmer Putnam）（档案）：请不要忘记在到达那里后立即打电话，是吗？
Narrator: : On the fifth anniversary of Lindbergh’s flight, the Vega was ready.
旁白：：在林德伯格飞行五周年之际，织女星已经准备就绪。
Ten people had died trying to cross the Atlantic since Lindbergh, and Earhart’s mechanic thought she had a one-in-100 chance of surviving.
自林德伯格事件以来，已有十人在试图横渡大西洋时丧生，埃尔哈特的机械师认为她的生还机会只有百分之一。
A poem Amelia wrote reveals her feelings about taking such a risk.
阿米莉亚写的一首诗揭示了她对冒这样的风险的感受。
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
勇气是生命为实现和平而付出的代价。
The soul that knows it not knows no release from little things, knows not the livid loneliness of fear, nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear the sound of wings.
不知道这一点的灵魂不知道从小事中得到解脱，不知道恐惧的苍白孤独，也不知道在痛苦的喜悦中可以听到翅膀的声音的高山。
Doris Rich, biographer: : She was four hours out when she ran into a storm.
多丽丝·里奇（Doris Rich），传记作者：：她在外出四个小时后遇到了暴风雨。
She would go high and the plane would ice.
她会飞得很高，飞机就会结冰。
Then she’d go down until she could see the waves to get the ice off.
然后她会下去，直到她能看到海浪，把冰除去。
She had no radio contact with anyone.
她没有与任何人进行无线电联系。
The manifold on her engine broke and the flames from the backfire from it were coming out.
她发动机上的歧管破裂了，回火产生的火焰正在喷出。
There was a gas gauge over her head that began to leak and the gasoline was dripping down over her forehead and into one eye.
她头上的煤气表开始泄漏，汽油从她的前额滴到一只眼睛里。
Narrator: : Earhart’s navigation was off and she almost missed the northern tip of Ireland.
旁白：：埃尔哈特的导航失效了，她差点错过了爱尔兰的北端。
But after 15 hours in the air, she landed safely in an isolated field in Londonderry.
但在空中飞行 15 个小时后，她安全降落在伦敦德里的一个偏僻的地方。
The next day, G.P.
第二天，G.P.
sent in the newsreel cameras and Amelia restaged her arrival.
送来新闻片摄像机，阿米莉亚重演了她的到来。
Third Newsreel Announcer (archival): : Journey’s end.
第三个新闻片播音员（档案）：：旅程结束。
There she is, safe and sound on a farm in Ireland, having just completed the first flight by a woman across the Atlantic.
她安然无恙地在爱尔兰的一个农场里，刚刚完成了女性首次跨越大西洋的飞行。
And here are the good farmer folk Amelia gave the surprise of their lives.
这里有善良的农民阿米莉亚给他们的生活带来的惊喜。
Those messages she holds are congratulations from all parts of the world.
她所持有的这些信息是来自世界各地的祝贺。
Narrator: : In London, Paris and Rome, Earhart was a sensation.
旁白：：埃尔哈特在伦敦、巴黎和罗马引起了轰动。
Everywhere she went, she was treated like royalty.
无论她走到哪里，都受到皇室般的待遇。
G.P.
GP
met Amelia in Paris.
在巴黎遇见了阿米莉亚。
Thousands of spectators lined the route to her hotel and others shouted below her balcony until she and G.P.
数千名观众在通往她酒店的路上排队，其他人在她的阳台下大喊大叫，直到她和 G.P.
came out to greet them.
出来迎接他们。
In New York, the ticker tape parade was for Amelia alone and this time she deserved all the credit.
在纽约，收报机游行是为了阿米莉亚一个人，这一次她值得所有的荣誉。
Second singer (archival): : You took a notion to fly 'cross the ocean/ Our American girl/ Finding your way in the dark/ American Joan of Arc/ Everybody thinks you’re wonderful…
第二位歌手（档案）：：你有一个想法飞越海洋/我们的美国女孩/在黑暗中寻找你的路/美国圣女贞德/每个人都认为你很棒......
Gore Vidal, author: : In the Depression, people wanted idols, of course, to distract them from everyday reality.
戈尔·维达尔（Gore Vidal），作者：：在大萧条时期，人们当然想要偶像来分散他们对日常现实的注意力。
Aviation was an alternative.
航空是一种选择。
Aviation was literally heavenly compared to what was going on on earth, so she was very much part of that.
与地球上发生的事情相比，航空简直就是天堂，所以她也是其中的一部分。
She showed what a woman could do and that a woman was no different from a man when it came to flying an airplane.
她展示了女性的能力，并且在驾驶飞机方面，女性与男性没有什么不同。
Narrator: : Earhart’s style was a unique blend of the masculine and feminine, and it made her enormously appealing.
旁白：埃尔哈特的风格是男性与女性的独特融合，这使她极具吸引力。
Susan Ware, historian: : The technology, I think, that affected Amelia the most was the newsreel.
历史学家苏珊·韦尔（Susan Ware）：我认为对阿米莉亚影响最大的技术是新闻片。
They were like the movies.
他们就像电影一样。
They were still very new.
他们还很新。
And for people to go into a darkened movie theater and see these images from Paris or Ireland, a place they had never been — a lot of what Amelia did was similar to being a Hollywood star.
对于人们走进黑暗的电影院并看到这些来自巴黎或爱尔兰的图像，他们从未去过的地方 - 阿米莉亚所做的很多事情类似于成为好莱坞明星。
She tried to keep her name before the public and she tried to keep the public interested in her and they responded.
她试图在公众面前保留自己的名字，并试图让公众对她感兴趣，他们做出了回应。
And that’s very similar to what a Katharine Hepburn or a Bette Davis was doing.
这与凯瑟琳·赫本或贝蒂·戴维斯所做的非常相似。
Narrator: : G.P was now an executive at Paramount Pictures.
旁白：：G.P 现在是派拉蒙影业公司的一名高管。
He and Amelia courted celebrities because it was good business and business was the name of the game.
他和阿米莉亚向名人求爱，因为这是一笔好生意，而生意就是游戏的名称。
To keep her name on the front pages, to finance her expensive flights and to support their lavish lifestyle, Earhart depended on the lecture circuit.
为了让自己的名字登上头版、为昂贵的机票提供资金并支持他们奢华的生活方式，埃尔哈特依靠巡回演讲。
In a good week, she could earn over $2,400, the equivalent of $30,000 a week today.
心情好的时候，她一周的收入可以超过 2,400 美元，相当于今天每周 30,000 美元。
Doris Rich, biographer: : It was a treadmill, an unbelievable treadmill of lecture after lecture night after night.
多丽丝·里奇（Doris Rich），传记作者：：这是一台跑步机，一台令人难以置信的跑步机，夜复一夜地进行着一场又一场的讲座。
The ladies’ committee sometimes asked for breakfast, certainly for lunch.
妇女委员会有时会要求吃早餐，当然也要求午餐。
Then she gave a speech that afternoon.
当天下午她发表了讲话。
Then that night to the Chamber of Commerce she gave another speech.
那天晚上她又在商会发表了演讲。
And then back in the car at midnight and on to the next town.
然后在午夜回到车上，前往下一个城镇。
And this will go on for four months in a row.
而且这种情况将连续持续四个月。
Narrator: : Earhart had a strong social conscience and now used her fame to promote her causes.
旁白：：埃尔哈特有着强烈的社会良知，现在利用她的名声来推动她的事业。
She preached pacifism to the Daughters of the American Revolution.
她向美国革命之女宣扬和平主义。
She spoke out on behalf of commercial aviation, even enlisting her good friend Eleanor Roosevelt in the effort.
她代表商业航空发声，甚至邀请她的好朋友埃莉诺·罗斯福参与其中。
And everywhere she went, Amelia crusaded for women.
无论她走到哪里，阿米莉亚都为女性而奋斗。
Amelia Earhart (archival): : I’ve had practical experience and know the discrimination against women in various forms of industry.
阿米莉亚·埃尔哈特（档案）：：我有过实践经验，了解各种行业对女性的歧视。
A pilot’s a pilot.
飞行员就是飞行员。
I hope that such equality could be carried out in other fields so that men and women may achieve equally in any endeavor they set out.
我希望这种平等能够在其他领域实现，让男人和女人在他们所从事的任何事业中都能平等地取得成就。
Narrator: : There was precious little time for her private life.
旁白：：她的私人生活时间非常宝贵。
Whenever she could, she would retreat to Rye, New York.
只要有可能，她就会撤退到纽约的拉伊。
Amelia wrote to her mother, “I am much happier than I ever expected I could be.
阿米莉亚写信给她的母亲：“我比我想象的要快乐得多。
I believe the whole thing was for the best.”
我相信这一切都是最好的结果。”
Doris Rich, biographer: : They seem to have been, at least for the first five or six years of the marriage, a good match.
多丽丝·里奇（Doris Rich），传记作者：：至少在婚姻的前五六年里，他们似乎是很般配的。
She seemed to find him very attractive.
她似乎觉得他很有魅力。
At the same time, there was not the sort of warmth that one expects in a so-called happy marriage.
同时，所谓幸福婚姻中也没有那种温暖。
There wasn’t evidence of it.
没有证据表明这一点。
Sally Chapman, George Putnam’s granddaughter: : When Amelia and my grandfather were in public, they were very businesslike, but the minute they stepped inside their home, they became a married couple.
莎莉·查普曼，乔治·普特南的孙女：：当阿米莉亚和我的祖父出现在公共场合时，他们非常务实，但当他们踏入家中的那一刻，他们就成了一对已婚夫妇。
She was caring and so was he, but never in public.
她很体贴，他也很体贴，但从来没有在公共场合。
Narrator: : By 1935, Earhart’s public image was losing its luster and the demand for her on the lecture circuit was drying up.
旁白： 到 1935 年，埃尔哈特的公众形象逐渐失去光彩，对她巡回演讲的需求也逐渐枯竭。
In the winter she set a world record, flying from Hawaii to the mainland.
冬天，她创造了从夏威夷飞往大陆的世界纪录。
Throngs of people waited to greet her, but Earhart and Putnam were criticized by the press for financing the flight with money from Hawaiian business interests.
成群结队的人等着迎接她，但埃尔哈特和普特南因用夏威夷商业利益集团的资金为这次航班提供资金而受到媒体批评。
Emotionally and physically exhausted, Amelia was hospitalized with a severe sinus infection and then bedridden for weeks with back problems.
阿米莉亚身心俱疲，因严重鼻窦感染住院，随后又因背部问题卧床数周。
Doris Rich, biographer: : Earhart was truly a frail woman all of her life, assailed by a considerable amount of illness and that it was sheer willpower that kept her going.
多丽丝·里奇（Doris Rich），传记作者：：埃尔哈特一生确实是一个虚弱的女人，饱受多种疾病的困扰，而支撑她坚持下去的纯粹是意志力。
Always when she flew she was sick to her stomach.
当她飞行时，她总是感到胃部不适。
She was delicate.
她很娇弱。
Narrator: : When she recovered, Amelia went back to work and to whatever publicity stunts she and G.P.
旁白：：康复后，阿米莉亚重返工作岗位，并接受了她和 G.P. 受到的任何公众关注。
could manufacture.
可以制造。
Announcer (archival): : Something really new, a captive parachute.
播音员（档案）：：非常新的东西，系留降落伞。
Narrator: : Though by this time Amelia certainly didn’t need another record, she just couldn’t stop.
旁白：：虽然此时阿米莉亚当然不需要另一张唱片，但她就是停不下来。
Sally Chapman, George Putnam’s granddaughter: : I think there was a certain amount of insecurity in her and a determination to prove herself to herself and to the world.
乔治·普特南的孙女莎莉·查普曼：我认为她有一定的不安全感，并且决心向自己和世界证明自己。
And I think she used flying to accomplish that, but I don’t think she was ever really satisfied.
我认为她通过飞行来实现这一目标，但我认为她从未真正感到满意。
I don’t think there was ever a flight that made her feel like she had done everything she needed to be for herself.
我认为从来没有一次飞行让她觉得自己已经为自己做了所有需要做的事情。
Narrator: : In 1936, Amelia Earhart announced the most ambitious flight of her life.
旁白： 1936 年，阿米莉亚·埃尔哈特宣布了她一生中最雄心勃勃的飞行。
Amelia Earhart (archival): : The contemplated course covers about 27,000 miles.
Amelia Earhart（档案）： ：预期的路线覆盖约 27,000 英里。
It will be the first flight, if successful, which approximates the equator.
如果成功的话，这将是第一次接近赤道的飞行。
Indeed, I cross the equator four times.
事实上，我四次穿越赤道。
I hope to fly from Oakland to Honolulu, then Howland Island, then to the northern tip of Australia.
我希望从奥克兰飞往檀香山，然后是豪兰岛，然后飞往澳大利亚的北端。
Narrator: : Whatever her motives for taking this flight, Amelia Earhart wanted it to be her last.
旁白：无论她乘坐这次航班的动机是什么，阿米莉亚·埃尔哈特都希望这是她的最后一次飞行。
“I have the feeling there’s just one more good flight left in my system and I hope this is it,” Amelia told a good friend.
“我有一种感觉，我的系统中只剩下一次精彩的飞行，我希望就是这样，”阿米莉亚告诉一位好朋友。
“It is my swan song as far as record-flying is concerned, my frosting on the cake.”
“就纪录飞行而言，这是我的绝唱，是我的锦上添花。”
Elinor Smith, Voted Best Woman Pilot, 1930: : She had to make this road flight for the record, one.
埃莉诺·史密斯 (Elinor Smith)，被票选为 1930 年最佳女飞行员：她必须创造这次公路飞行记录，其中之一。
Next, she could have made enough on that flight from the advertising and all that she wouldn’t have had to work anymore during her lifetime.
接下来，她可以在那趟航班上从广告中赚到足够的钱，而且她在有生之年不必再工作了。
Narrator: : The world flight was an expensive undertaking.
旁白： ：环球飞行是一项昂贵的任务。
The plane alone cost a staggering $80,000.
仅这架飞机就花费了惊人的 80,000 美元。
G.P.
GP
was able to raise most of the money from Purdue University in Indiana, where Earhart was an aviation adviser and a career counselor to women.
从印第安纳州普渡大学筹集了大部分资金，埃尔哈特在该大学担任航空顾问和女性职业顾问。
The Lockheed Electra was the most advanced aircraft to date.
洛克希德·伊莱克特拉 (Lockheed Electra) 是迄今为止最先进的飞机。
It was overhauled for the long flight by replacing the passenger seats with extra fuel tanks.
为了长途飞行，它进行了大修，用额外的油箱替换了乘客座椅。
To deflect criticism that this flight was a self-serving stunt, Earhart presented her Electra as a laboratory for aviation research.
为了转移对这次飞行是自私噱头的批评，埃尔哈特将她的伊莱克特拉号展示为航空研究实验室。
Amelia Earhart (archival): : It’s a real flying laboratory equipped with the latest of instruments, and I hope to accomplish something really worthwhile in aviation scientifically.
Amelia Earhart（档案）：：这是一个真正的飞行实验室，配备了最新的仪器，我希望在航空科学领域完成一些真正有价值的事情。
I hope the experiments will include altitude flying and also long distance work.
我希望实验包括高空飞行和长距离工作。
Elinor Smith, Voted Best Woman Pilot, 1930: : It had no scientific value.
埃莉诺·史密斯 (Elinor Smith)，被评选为最佳女飞行员，1930 年：：它没有科学价值。
It had — all of the legs of it had been flown at one time or another.
它曾经——它的所有腿都曾经飞过。
The airplane was certainly tested and retested and had been flown commercially.
这架飞机确实经过了测试和再测试，并且已经进行了商业飞行。
So there was no real reason for it, but again, G.P.
所以这并没有什么真正的原因，但是，G.P.
could see the publicity value of it.
可见其宣传价值。
Narrator: : Amelia and G.P.
旁白：：Amelia 和 G.P.
needed all the publicity they could get.
他们需要尽可能多的宣传。
With few aviation records left to break, Earhart had to work harder and harder.
由于航空记录已所剩无几，埃尔哈特必须更加努力地工作。
In addition to preparing for the world flight, she was supervising construction of a lavish new house in Hollywood, campaigning for Roosevelt and promoting a new franchise, Amelia Earhart Luggage.
除了为环球飞行做准备之外，她还负责监督好莱坞一座豪华新房的建设、为罗斯福竞选并宣传新的特许经营权，Amelia Earhart Luggage。
Doris Rich, biographer: : There was a lack of focus in this whole undertaking and the longer it went on — the preparations went on, the more unfocused she became.
传记作者多丽丝·里奇（Doris Rich）：整个工作缺乏焦点，而且时间越长——准备工作越持续，她就越不专注。
She was physically and emotionally exhausted, which had much to do with the failure of it.
她身心俱疲，这与这次失败有很大关系。
She simply was not preparing properly for it.
她只是没有做好充分的准备。
Gore Vidal, author: : It’s hard work being Amelia Earhart and eventually it’s monotonous work.
戈尔·维达尔 (Gore Vidal)，作者：：作为阿米莉亚·埃尔哈特 (Amelia Earhart) 的工作很辛苦，最终会变得单调乏味。
It is the same number you must play and some people get tired of their own legends.
这也是你必须玩的号码，有些人厌倦了自己的传奇。
I don’t think she was eager to take that flight.
我认为她并不急于乘坐那趟航班。
She was pretty sick of it all.
她已经厌倦了这一切。
She was certainly sick of G.P., her husband, who was constantly pushing her.
她当然厌倦了她的丈夫全科医生，因为他不断地逼迫她。
Right after that, he had a, I don’t know, a lecture tour for her.
在那之后，他为她进行了一次我不知道的巡回演讲。
He had this, he had that.
他有这个，他有那个。
She was to endorse 32 products.
她将代言 32 种产品。
I mean, she was like a rock star and she was being pushed and pushed and pushed.
我的意思是，她就像一个摇滚明星，她被推、推、推。
Sally Chapman, George Putnam’s granddaughter: : I think it’s believed that she was the pilot and he was the pushy promoter, but in fact, she was an equal part of this business team.
乔治·普特南的孙女莎莉·查普曼：我认为人们相信她是飞行员，而他是咄咄逼人的发起人，但事实上，她是这个业务团队的平等组成部分。
She knew what she wanted.
她知道自己想要什么。
She knew the flight she wanted to take.
她知道她想要乘坐的航班。
She knew the sponsors she wanted to get and between the two of them, they accomplished it.
她知道她想要获得的赞助商，在他们两人的帮助下，他们成功了。
Narrator: : From the outset, Amelia had imagined this flight as a solo adventure, but in the course of preparation she realized that she would need a navigator, especially for the most dangerous leg of the trip, a 2,500-mile journey across the Pacific to Howland Island, a tiny atoll only a mile and a half wide.
旁白：：从一开始，阿米莉亚就将这次飞行想象成一次独自冒险，但在准备过程中，她意识到自己需要一名导航员，尤其是在旅途中最危险的一段路程，即跨越太平洋到达豪兰岛（一个只有一英里半宽的小环礁）的 2,500 英里旅程。
Brad Washburn was interviewed for the job.
布拉德·沃什伯恩 (Brad Washburn) 接受了该职位的面试。
Brad Washburn, explorer, aerial photographer: : Amelia spread all her maps out on the floor and G.P.
Brad Washburn，探险家、航空摄影师：Amelia 将她所有的地图铺在地板上，G.P.
sat down like I’m sitting here and we were on the floor in front of them with all these maps.
坐下来，就像我坐在这里一样，我们坐在他们面前的地板上，上面放着所有这些地图。
And we chatted our way all the way around the world, almost.
我们几乎一路聊遍了世界各地。
When she began to describe her long flight — as I recollect it was a couple of thousand miles — to Howland Island — you’ve got to remember that Howland Island, as I recollect — I wish I had a map of it here, but I had a pretty good visual picture of the damn thing and it was a little sliver of an island about a mile and a quarter long and very narrow.
当她开始描述她飞往豪兰岛的长途飞行时——我记得那是几千英里——你必须记住那个豪兰岛，我记得——我希望我这里有一张它的地图，但我对这个该死的东西有一张相当清晰的视觉图片，它是一个长约一又四分之一英里的小岛，而且非常狭窄。
You either hit Howland Island or you don’t hit nothing [sic].
你要么击中豪兰岛，要么什么也没击中[原文如此]。
Narrator: : Earhart planned to hit Howland Island using a compass course and celestial navigation, but for such a long flight over water out of reach of land, new sophisticated radio equipment would also be essential.
旁白：埃尔哈特计划使用罗盘航向和天文导航来袭击豪兰岛，但对于在陆地无法到达的水上进行如此长的飞行，新的先进无线电设备也是必不可少的。
Doris Rich, biographer: : She did not like radio communication, there’s absolutely no doubt about it.
多丽丝·里奇（Doris Rich），传记作者：：她不喜欢无线电通讯，这是毫无疑问的。
She not only didn’t bother to learn it, but she didn’t really find it necessary.
她不仅懒得学，而且觉得没有必要。
There is a hint here of the ego that all great explorers and adventurers have.
这里有一种所有伟大的探险家和冒险家都拥有的自我的暗示。
They have a certain faith that they’re going to make it.
他们坚信自己一定能成功。
Narrator: : Ultimately, Amelia assembled a stellar team.
旁白：：最终，阿米莉亚组建了一支优秀的团队。
She hired stunt pilot and friend Paul Mantz as her technical adviser; Harry Manning, an experienced marine navigator and expert radio man; and Fred Noonan, formerly a navigator with Pan Am.
她聘请了特技飞行员兼朋友保罗·曼茨作为她的技术顾问；哈里·曼宁 (Harry Manning)，一位经验丰富的航海家和无线电专家；弗雷德·努南（Fred Noonan），前泛美航空导航员。
On March 20, 1937, Earhart and the crew started to take off from Hawaii on the first leg of the world flight, but at the far end of the runway, Amelia lost control of the plane.
1937 年 3 月 20 日，埃尔哈特和机组人员开始从夏威夷起飞，这是世界航班的第一站，但在跑道的远端，阿米莉亚失去了对飞机的控制。
The Electra crashed.
伊莱克特拉号坠毁。
Doris Rich, biographer: : After she cracked up the plane in Honolulu, she felt fear for the first time, definitely.
多丽丝·里奇（Doris Rich），传记作者：：在檀香山发生飞机事故后，她第一次感受到了恐惧，这是肯定的。
The immensity of the project suddenly hit her.
这个项目的浩大突然让她震惊。
She knew that if she lost that plane or failed in this, they were dead broke, both of them.
她知道，如果她失去了那架飞机或失败了，他们俩都会破产。
Narrator: : George and Amelia were under a great deal of strain.
旁白：：乔治和阿米莉亚承受着巨大的压力。
There were rumors the marriage was falling apart.
有传言说婚姻破裂了。
Amelia even confided to several friends that she was fed up with G.P., but a letter he wrote to her leaves a different impression.
阿米莉亚甚至向几个朋友透露，她厌倦了 G.P.，但他写给她的一封信却给她留下了不同的印象。
“We both recognize the hazards, and I love you dearly.
“我们都认识到危险，我非常爱你。
I don’t want you to run risks and I don’t want to run the risk of perhaps having to go on without you.
我不想让你冒风险，我也不想冒可能不得不在没有你的情况下继续生活的风险。
That makes me terribly sorry for myself, entirely disregarding your end of it.
这让我为自己感到非常难过，完全无视你的结局。
But gosh, once this is out of your hair, what a very happy, interesting time we can have.
但是天哪，一旦这件事不再发生，我们就能度过一段多么快乐、有趣的时光了。
We can have it, too, should you for any reason decide to quit.” But Earhart didn’t quit.
如果你出于任何原因决定退出，我们也可以拥有它。”但埃尔哈特并没有放弃。
Together, Amelia and G.P.
阿米莉亚和 G.P. 一起。
raised $34,000 to repair the damaged Electra.
筹集了 34,000 美元来修复受损的 Electra。
Because of changing weather conditions, they had to map out a new route and rearrange visas, landing permissions and ground crews in more than 20 countries.
由于天气条件的变化，他们必须在 20 多个国家制定新航线并重新安排签证、着陆许可和地勤人员。
And then there were problems with the crew.
然后船员们就出现了问题。
Harry Manning, the only one with radio experience, dropped out, some say because he had lost faith in Amelia.
哈利·曼宁（Harry Manning）是唯一一位有广播经验的人，他退出了，有人说是因为他对阿米莉亚失去了信心。
Fred Noonan would now be Earhart’s navigator.
弗雷德·努南现在将成为埃尔哈特的领航员。
He was the best in the business, but he was also a heavy drinker.
他是业内最优秀的人，但他也是一个酗酒者。
Throughout the planning of the flight, G.P.
在整个飞行计划过程中，G.P.
and Paul Manse, Earhart’s technical adviser, constantly argued over money.
埃尔哈特的技术顾问保罗·曼斯 (Paul Manse) 经常因金钱问题发生争执。
A few days before departure, Manse was edged out.
出发前几天，曼斯被淘汰。
That left G.P., who knew nothing about flying, in charge of the preparations.
于是，对飞行一无所知的 G.P. 负责了准备工作。
With Manse gone, Amelia made several critical decisions on her own.
曼斯去世后，阿米莉亚自己做出了几个关键决定。
She chose not to take a vital piece of equipment, a trailing wire antenna that she found awkward to use.
她选择不拿走一个重要的设备，一个她觉得使用起来很不方便的拖线天线。
She also left behind her Morse code key because she’d never learned to operate it properly.
她还留下了莫尔斯电码钥匙，因为她从未学会如何正确操作它。
Some of Amelia’s friends, concerned about her mental state, advised her not to go forward with the flight.
阿米莉亚的一些朋友担心她的精神状态，建议她不要继续乘坐航班。
Brad Washburn, explorer, aerial photographer: : This whole array of information on the one hand and what she did with it and how she ignored so many fundamentally important things made you really think that she was pathologically optimistic.
布拉德·沃什伯恩 (Brad Washburn)，探险家、航空摄影师： 一方面，这整套信息以及她对这些信息做了什么，以及她如何忽略了如此多根本上重要的事情，让你真的认为她是病态的乐观。
Narrator: : Before the flight, Amelia and George spent the day with his son and daughter-in-law.
旁白：：在飞行之前，阿米莉亚和乔治与儿子和儿媳度过了一天。
Sally Chapman, George Putnam’s granddaughter: : Mom and Dad and Grandpa George and Amelia had been together the night before.
莎莉·查普曼，乔治·帕特南的孙女：：妈妈、爸爸、爷爷乔治和阿米莉亚前一天晚上在一起。
They were staying in the same hotel together.
他们一起住在同一家酒店。
They got in the car together and they drove to the airport.
两人一起上了车，前往机场。
And she said it was very quiet.
她说那里很安静。
They touched each other a lot, they held hands.
他们互相触摸了很多，他们握着手。
It was a very tender time.
那是一段非常温柔的时光。
Narrator: : The morning of June 1, 1937, Earhart and Fred Noonan took off from Miami.
旁白： 1937 年 6 月 1 日早上，埃尔哈特和弗雷德·努南从迈阿密起飞。
At the last minute, Amelia left behind her parachute, her life raft and even her good luck charm, an elephant-hair bracelet.
在最后一刻，阿米莉亚留下了她的降落伞、救生筏，甚至还有她的幸运符——一只象毛手镯。
For six days, she flew along the coast of Central and South America and then across the South Atlantic to Africa.
在六天的时间里，她沿着中美洲和南美洲海岸飞行，然后横跨南大西洋飞往非洲。
Gore Vidal recalls talking to Amelia beforehand about that part of the flight.
戈尔·维达尔 (Gore Vidal) 回忆起事先与阿米莉亚 (Amelia) 谈论过的飞行部分。
Gore Vidal, author: : She was showing us the flight and I said, “What part bothers you the most?” “Oh,” she said, “Africa.
戈尔·维达尔（Gore Vidal），作者：：她向我们展示了飞行过程，我说：“哪一部分最让你烦恼？” “哦，”她说，“非洲。
That terrifies me.
这让我害怕。
If you were forced down in those jungles, they would never find you.
如果你被迫进入那些丛林，他们永远不会找到你。
And there’s a lot of it — and you look at the equator, there’s an awful lot of Africa, it’s very fat.” And I said, “Well, what about the Pacific?
而且有很多——你看看赤道，非洲有很多地方，非常肥沃。”我说：“那么，太平洋呢？
That’s even fatter.” And she said, “You can’t miss an island, no matter where you are at that latitude.”
那就更胖了。”她说：“无论你在那个纬度的哪个地方，你都不会错过任何一个岛屿。”
Narrator: : Earhart flew over Africa without incident and continued over Arabia to Karachi and Calcutta.
旁白：埃尔哈特平安无事地飞越非洲，然后继续飞越阿拉伯半岛，到达卡拉奇和加尔各答。
She fought monsoons that beat the paint off her airplane en route to Singapore.
在飞往新加坡的途中，她与季风作斗争，导致飞机上的油漆被刮掉。
Then in Java, she took a short rest before flying onto Australia and finally to Lae, New Guinea.
然后在爪哇，她短暂休息，然后飞往澳大利亚，最后飞往新几内亚莱城。
This would be her last stop before the long Pacific leg to Howland Island.
这将是她在太平洋长途航线前往豪兰岛之前的最后一站。
Amelia called the Herald Tribune office in New York where G.P.
阿米莉亚给纽约先驱论坛报办公室打电话，G.P.
and Gene Vidal were waiting to hear from her.
吉恩·维达尔正在等待她的消息。
Gore Vidal, author: : Well, just the night before the final flight, she reported in and they had a code phrase, “personnel problems,” which meant Noonan was back drinking.
戈尔·维达尔（Gore Vidal），作者：：嗯，就在最后一次飞行的前一天晚上，她报告说，他们有一个暗号“人事问题”，这意味着努南又喝酒了。
And my father said, “Just stop it right now and come home,” and G.P.
我父亲说：“现在就停下来，回家吧。”G.P.
agreed and said, “Come back, abort the flight, forget it, come home.” And then she said, “Oh, no,” and she said, “I think it’ll be all right,” something like that.
同意并说道：“回来吧，中止飞行，算了，回家吧。”然后她说，“哦，不，”然后她说，“我想一切都会好起来的”之类的话。
So you may put that down to invincible optimism or it may have been huge pessimism.
所以你可以把这归因于不可战胜的乐观主义，也可能是巨大的悲观主义。
Doris Rich, biographer: : By the time Amelia arrived in Lae, which was almost three-quarters of her entire journey, she had been flying for more than 40 days.
传记作者多丽丝·里奇 (Doris Rich)：：当阿米莉亚抵达莱城时（这几乎是她整个旅程的四分之三），她已经飞行了 40 多天。
She’d had five hours of sleep a night.
她每晚睡五个小时。
She had had stomach attacks and more and more attacks of diarrhea.
她胃病发作，腹泻越来越频繁。
She was totally, totally run down, but so hopeful by then that perhaps if she could just make it to Howland, everything would be all right.
她已经彻底崩溃了，但那时她充满希望，也许如果她能到达豪兰，一切都会好起来的。
Narrator: : On July 2, 1937, Earhart and Noonan took off from Lei, New Guinea.
旁白： 1937 年 7 月 2 日，埃尔哈特和努南从新几内亚雷起飞。
Only luck could guide them to Howland Island.
只有运气才能引导他们到达豪兰岛。
She had no Morse code key or trailing wire antenna.
她没有莫尔斯电码钥匙或拖线天线。
Celestial navigation wouldn’t help because the location of Howland Island on her chart was off by five and a half miles, and neither she nor Noonan knew much about radio communication.
天文导航无济于事，因为她的海图上的豪兰岛的位置有五英里半，而且她和努南都不太了解无线电通信。
Brad Washburn, explorer, aerial photographer: : This was fundamentally her downfall, that either she or that navigator should have known a lot about radio.
布拉德·沃什伯恩 (Brad Washburn)，探险家、航空摄影师：：这从根本上来说是她的失败，因为她或那位导航员应该对无线电了解很多。
She’d never been as dependent on these other flights on radio.
她从来没有像现在这样依赖于广播中的其他航班。
Remember, if you fly to Europe or fly from Europe to the United States, you can’t get lost.
请记住，如果您飞往欧洲或从欧洲飞往美国，您就不会迷路。
But there’s something very, very lonely about that Pacific.
但太平洋上有一种非常非常孤独的感觉。
Narrator: : Standing off Howland Island was the Coast Guard cutter Itasca , waiting to provide radio assistance, but there had been a serious lack of communication between Earhart, G.P.
旁白： ： 海岸警卫队快艇伊塔斯卡号停泊在豪兰岛附近，等待提供无线电援助，但埃尔哈特、G.P. 之间严重缺乏通讯。
and the Coast Guard about which frequency she should use to talk to the ship.
以及海岸警卫队关于她应该使用哪个频率与船只交谈。
In the end, they could hear her, but she could never hear them.
最后，他们能听到她的声音，但她却永远听不到他们的声音。
The Itasca logs indicate that Amelia and Noonan came very close to Howland Island on the morning of July 2nd, but could not find it.
艾塔斯卡日志显示，阿米莉亚和努南在 7 月 2 日早上非常接近豪兰岛，但没有找到它。
At 7:42, she radioed, “We must be on you, but cannot see you, but gas is running low.
7点42分，她通过无线电说道：“我们一定在你身上，但看不到你，但汽油即将耗尽。
Been unable to reach you by radio.” Minutes later, another report: “Calling Itasca .
无法通过无线电联系到您。”几分钟后，另一则报告：“呼叫艾塔斯卡。
We are circling, but cannot hear you.” At 8:43, Amelia’s voice, shrill and breathless — “We are on the line at 157,337.
我们正在盘旋，但听不到你的声音。” 8点43分，阿米莉亚的声音尖锐而气喘吁吁——“我们的电话是157,337。
We will repeat message.
我们将重复消息。
We will repeat.
我们会重复。
We are running on line north and south.
我们正在南北线运行。
The Coast Guard continued to listen and to transmit on every possible frequency, but her voice was not heard again.
海岸警卫队继续在每一个可能的频率上监听和传输，但她的声音再也听不到了。
Amelia Earhart never arrived at Howland Island where a cabin and a bed had been prepared for her.
阿米莉亚·埃尔哈特从未抵达豪兰岛，那里已经为她准备了一间小屋和一张床。
Nancy Morse, Earhart’s cousin: : All we had was what appeared in the papers and on the radio, and I remember sitting up at night and listening and listening and listening.
南希·莫尔斯（Nancy Morse），埃尔哈特的表弟：：我们所拥有的只是报纸和广播中出现的内容，我记得晚上坐着听啊听啊听。
Narrator: : Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan were the object of the most extensive search ever mounted for a lost place.
旁白：阿米莉亚·埃尔哈特和弗雷德·努南是有史以来最广泛的失落地点搜索的对象。
The government sent 10 ships and 65 airplanes to comb the Pacific for more than two weeks.
政府派出10艘舰艇和65架飞机在太平洋上进行了两周多的搜寻。
George Putnam, using his own money, frantically continued to look for Amelia long after the government had stopped, but three weeks before her 40th birthday, Amelia was gone.
在政府停止行动很久之后，乔治·帕特南用自己的钱继续疯狂地寻找阿米莉亚，但距离她 40 岁生日还有三周，阿米莉亚却失踪了。
Gore Vidal, author: : Amelia Earhart came of humble birth and it was rather startling that she would make this huge leap into glory and in a man’s world and in a man’s field and she was beloved for that.
戈尔·维达尔（Gore Vidal），作者：：阿米莉亚·埃尔哈特（Amelia Earhart）出身卑微，令人惊讶的是她竟然在男人的世界和男人的领域取得了辉煌的飞跃，并因此而受到爱戴。
But it was the disappearance of Amelia that created the legend, combined with the old — what they call the gospel of flight, so she’s part of these divine beings and one of the divine beings vanishes over the Pacific.
但正是阿米莉亚的失踪创造了这个传说，与古老的传说相结合——他们称之为飞行的福音，所以她是这些神圣存在的一部分，而其中一个神圣存在消失在太平洋上空。
Well, that is the stuff of legend.
嗯，这就是传说中的东西。
Narrator: : Amelia Earhart lived as if she were invincible, yet an unfinished poem reveals her clear understanding that death was never far away.
旁白：阿米莉亚·埃尔哈特生活得仿佛所向披靡，然而一首未完成的诗却让她清楚地认识到死亡并不遥远。
Merciless life laughs in the burning sun, and only death, slow circling down.
无情的生命在烈日下欢笑，只有死亡，缓缓盘旋。
Learn about Earhart's life from her childhood spent roaming the outdoors, to her first flying lessons, to her disappearence over the Pacific in 1937.
了解埃尔哈特的一生，从她在户外漫游的童年，到她第一次上飞行课，再到 1937 年在太平洋上失踪。
Amelia Earhart may have been the most well-known woman pilot of her time, but she was neither the first nor the last to achieve great heights in the world of American Aviation.
阿米莉亚·埃尔哈特可能是她那个时代最著名的女飞行员，但她既不是第一个也不是最后一个在美国航空界取得巨大成就的人。
What would Amelia Earhart’s Instagram account have looked like?
阿米莉亚·埃尔哈特 (Amelia Earhart) 的 Instagram 账户会是什么样子？
American Experience decided to find out.
美国经验决定找出答案。
As the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, Amelia Earhart became a legend.
作为第一位独自飞越大西洋的女性，阿米莉亚·埃尔哈特 (Amelia Earhart) 成为了传奇。