The Fight

They came from nothing yet each did what he had to survive.

他们白手起家，但每个人都做了他必须生存的事情。

When they met in the ring, they were the reluctant symbols of their people...

当他们在擂台上相遇时，他们是他们人民的不情愿的象征……

--and of their nations, in the shadow of war.

——以及他们的国家，在战争的阴影下。

They would fight only twice, but their rivalry would captivate the world; and by the time they were done, no one would ever forget them.

他们只打了两次仗，但他们的竞争却让全世界为之着迷。当它们完成时，没有人会忘记它们。

They were like Lewis and Clark or Sacco and Vanzetti.

他们就像刘易斯和克拉克或者萨科和万泽蒂。

History brought Joe Louis and Max Schmeling together and in history they'll always be together.

历史让乔·路易斯和马克斯·施梅林走到了一起，并且在历史上他们将永远在一起。

June 19, 1936.

1936 年 6 月 19 日。

Yankee Stadium is host to the first meeting of two heavyweight fighters: German Max Schmeling and American Joe Louis.

洋基体育场是两位重量级拳击手的首次交锋：德国人马克斯·施梅林和美国人乔·路易斯。

Though they have come from far and wide to see it, few in the crowd expect much of a fight.

尽管他们从四面八方赶来观看，但人群中很少有人对这场战斗抱有太多期待。

In one corner, Joe Louis is the rising star of the heavyweight division, undefeated and by most accounts unbeatable.

在一方面，乔·路易斯是重量级拳王的后起之秀，他保持不败，并且在大多数人看来是不可战胜的。

A combination of speed, power, and aggression, he is considered a near-perfect fighter.

他集速度、力量和攻击性于一身，被认为是一位近乎完美的战士。

The German Max Schmeling, by contrast, is eight years older and on the downward slope of a checkered career.

相比之下，德国人马克斯·施梅林（Max Schmeling）年长八岁，职业生涯正处于下坡路。

Though possessed of a dangerous right hand, he is considered no match for the American phenom.

尽管他拥有危险的右手，但人们认为他无法与这位美国天才相匹敌。

Only one man is confident of a Schmeling victory and that is Schmeling himself.

只有一个人对施梅林的胜利充满信心，那就是施梅林本人。

For weeks, he has hinted to the press and fellow fighters that he has discovered a flaw in Louis' style.

几周来，他一直向媒体和战友暗示，他发现了路易斯风格的缺陷。

In the early rounds, those in the stadium expecting a quick knockout were instead surprised by a closely contested slugfest, as first Louis then Schmeling gained the upper hand.

在前几轮比赛中，体育场内那些期待快速淘汰的人却对一场激烈的混战感到惊讶，先是路易斯，然后是施梅林占据了上风。

But as the fight wore on it began to take a decided turn, and with it the lives of these two fighters.

但随着战斗的进行，事情开始发生决定性的转变，这两名战士的生命也随之发生了变化。

Theirs was a rivalry, born that night, that would draw in two nations inching closer to war ...

他们的竞争在那天晚上诞生，这将使两个国家越来越接近战争……

and take the measure of two men who had been fighting all their lives.

并衡量两个一生都在战斗的人。

In 1926, 12 year-old Joe Louis Barrow and his family decided to leave the South.

1926 年，12 岁的乔·路易斯·巴罗 (Joe Louis Barrow) 和家人决定离开南方。

Behind them were 120 acres of Alabama red clay soil and the privations of a sharecropper's life.

他们身后是阿拉巴马州 120 英亩的红粘土和佃农的贫困生活。

Ahead, lay Detroit, and the promise of $5 a day at the Ford automobile factory.

前面就是底特律，福特汽车工厂承诺每天 5 美元。

For thousands of Southern blacks like the Barrows, the job at Ford offered a living and a bit of dignity in their new world.

对于像巴罗斯一家这样的数千名南方黑人来说，福特的工作为他们的新世界提供了生计和一点尊严。

On their suits and go to church.

穿上西装去教堂。

And go to church with that Ford badge on.

带着福特徽章去教堂。

Upward mobility.

向上流动。

Standard of living.

生活水平。

Pulled us out.

把我们拉了出来。

Joe too went to work at Ford while still a teenager pushing 200 pound truck bodies on a conveyor belt.

乔也去福特工作，当时他还是个青少年，在传送带上推着 200 磅重的卡车车身。

In the summer, he hauled ice in the Negro section of Black Bottom.

夏天，他在黑底的黑人区拉冰。

Soon, his lean physique was layered with muscle.

很快，他瘦弱的身躯上就长满了肌肉。

Joe never had much use for school -- or anything else that required him to speak.

乔对学校或者其他需要他说话的事情没有多大用处。

He had battled a stammer since early childhood, and learned the habit of silence.

他从小就与口吃作斗争，并养成了沉默的习惯。

All his life, people would mistake this silence for dullness, and Joe never bothered correcting them.

在他的一生中，人们都会把这种沉默误认为是迟钝，而乔从来不费心去纠正他们。

He was a little slow until he started boxing, and after he got to be champion, he still was slow.

在开始拳击之前他有点慢，当他成为冠军后，他仍然很慢。

Well, listen Garcia, I didn't know it until later but he went to the Brownstone School.

好吧，听着加西亚，我后来才知道他去了布朗斯通学校。

Thurston McKinney was a fast light heavyweight, and one of Joe's running buddies on the streets of Black Bottom.

瑟斯顿·麦金尼是一位速度很快的轻重量级选手，也是乔在黑底街头跑步的伙伴之一。

As legend has it, he was the one who introduced Joe to boxing.

据传说，他是让乔接触拳击的人。

Joe's mother had given him half a dollar a week for violin lessons, hoping to keep him out of trouble, but Thurston had other ideas for the money.

乔的母亲每周给他半美元供他上小提琴，希望能让他摆脱麻烦，但瑟斯顿对这笔钱有其他想法。

Thurston McKinney told him, hey, you look like a, a sissy, wanting to play violin, ain't nobody play no violin, he said, why don't you go up to the gym and learn how to box?

瑟斯顿·麦金尼告诉他，嘿，你看起来像个娘娘腔，想拉小提琴，不是没有人拉小提琴吗？他说，你为什么不去健身房学习如何拳击呢？

It was only natural that Joe Louis should find the boxing ring.

乔·路易斯找到拳击台是很自然的事。

Two bits for a locker was all a kid needed.

孩子只需要两个储物柜就够了。

In the teeming ghettos of America's big cities, boxing became a flag of ethnic pride: every neighborhood had a champion.

在美国大城市拥挤的贫民窟中，拳击成为民族自豪感的旗帜：每个社区都有一个冠军。

In the '20s there were great Irish fighters there were great Jewish fighters there were great Italian fighters, and particularly in New York and Chicago there were these rivalries built on ethnic tension, and you could get ten thousand people for a fight between two neighborhood heroes

在 20 年代，有伟大的爱尔兰战士，有伟大的犹太战士，还有伟大的意大利战士，特别是在纽约和芝加哥，这些竞争建立在种族紧张的基础上，两个邻里英雄之间的战斗可能会吸引一万人。

Through much of the Twenties, the heavyweight champion of the World was Jack Dempsey, a man held in higher regard by working class Americans than the President or the Pope.

在二十世纪二十年代的大部分时间里，世界重量级冠军是杰克·登普西（Jack Dempsey），他受到美国工人阶级的尊敬，比总统或教皇还要高。

Dempsey once drew 100,000 fans to a bout.

邓普西曾经吸引了 10 万粉丝观看比赛。

It wasn't hard to figure: there was big money in the fight game.

不难想象：格斗游戏能赚大钱。

Boxing promised Louis not only a way to escape poverty; it was a way to reinvent himself - to leave behind the slow, stammering kid from the cotton fields, and become the fast, fearsome fighter.

拳击不仅为路易斯提供了一种摆脱贫困的方法，而且还为他提供了一种摆脱贫困的方法。这是一种重塑自我的方式——摆脱棉田里行动迟缓、结巴的孩子，成为快速、可怕的战士。

He quit school for good, dropped "Barrow" from his name, and went simply by "Joe Louis".

他永远退学了，名字中去掉了“巴罗”，只用“乔·路易斯”。

Louis first made his mark in the 1934 Golden Gloves tournament, where he made it all the way to the finals.

路易斯第一次崭露头角是在 1934 年的金手套锦标赛上，一路杀入决赛。

There were plenty of other good fighters around: some worked harder, some moved better.

周围还有很多其他优秀的拳手：有些人工作更努力，有些人动作更好。

But nobody could remember seeing a kid punch like this.

但没有人记得见过一个孩子这样打拳。

The scent of money is what brought around a small-time racketeer named John Roxborough.

金钱的气息吸引了一位名叫约翰·罗克斯伯勒（John Roxborough）的小骗子。

Roxborough was king of the illegal numbers lotteries in Detroit.

罗克斯伯勒是底特律非法号码彩票之王。

But one glimpse at Joe in the ring and he knew it was time for a different scheme.

但当乔看到擂台上的一幕时，他就知道是时候采取不同的计划了。

Roxborough partnered up with a wealthy and connected numbers man from Chicago named Julian Black.

罗克斯伯勒与一位来自芝加哥、名叫朱利安·布莱克 (Julian Black) 的富有、人脉广泛的数字人士合作。

Together, Roxborough and Black could manage Joe's business affairs, but they knew they'd need help teaching him how to box.

罗克斯伯勒和布莱克可以一起管理乔的生意，但他们知道他们需要帮助教他如何拳击。

Jack Blackburn, a convicted murderer with a notorious mean streak, had already trained several white world champions.

杰克·布莱克本（Jack Blackburn）是一名被定罪的杀人犯，性格恶劣，臭名昭著，他已经训练了几位白人世界冠军。

Blackburn's cynicism sprung in part from his own bitter experience.

布莱克本的愤世嫉俗部分源于他自己的痛苦经历。

One of the most skilled lightweights who ever lived, his career had been undermined by boxing's color line.

作为有史以来技术最精湛的轻量级拳击手之一，他的职业生涯因拳击界的肤色界限而受到损害。

While lesser white fighters had become famous and rich, he had brawled in the back rooms of bars for the price of a few bottles of whiskey.

当少数白人斗士变得出名和富有时，他却在酒吧的后屋里为几瓶威士忌的价格而斗殴。

In the end, Blackburn couldn't pass up the guaranteed $35 dollars a week, and then too, he thought he saw something special in Joe.

最终，布莱克本无法放弃每周 35 美元的保证金，而且他认为自己在乔身上看到了一些特别的东西。

I think Blackburn really loved nobody white or black or green or brown I think he really loved Joe.

我认为布莱克本真的不爱任何白人、黑人、绿色或棕色人种，我认为他真的爱乔。

He also saw the enormous possibility in him.

他也看到了他身上巨大的可能性。

Blackburn would teach Joe the finer points of boxing, but perhaps more importantly, he warned him about what to expect as a black fighter.

布莱克本会教乔拳击的精髓，但也许更重要的是，他警告乔作为一名黑人拳击手会发生什么。

"What you got to do every single time you get in the ring," he said, "is knock the other fellow down.

“每次你进入擂台时，”他说，“就是把另一个人击倒。

You gotta let your right hand be your referee." The same year that a young Joe Louis first landed in Detroit, another future heavyweight, 20 year-old Max Schmeling, arrived in Berlin.

你必须让你的右手成为你的裁判。”年轻的乔·路易斯 (Joe Louis) 首次登陆底特律的同一年，另一位未来的重量级人物、20 岁的马克斯·施梅林 (Max Schmeling) 也抵达了柏林。

Liberated from the tyranny of the Kaisers, Berlin in 1926 was a fantastic whorl of cabarets, theaters, and drinking spots.

1926 年，从德皇暴政中解放出来的柏林是一个歌舞厅、剧院和酒吧林立的奇妙世界。

The son of a working-class sailor, Schmeling had discovered boxing in small clubs in his hometown of Hamburg.

施梅林是一名工人阶级水手的儿子，他在家乡汉堡的小俱乐部里发现了拳击运动。

Once in Berlin, his talent caught the eye of Germany's leading boxing writer, Arthur Bulow.

一到柏林，他的才华就引起了德国著名拳击作家阿瑟·布洛的注意。

Bulow agreed to pay his training fees and become his manager.

布洛同意支付他的培训费并成为他的经理。

With Bulow's patronage, Schmeling rose quickly, becoming first German, then European champion.

在比洛的赞助下，施梅林迅速崛起，成为第一个德国冠军，然后是欧洲冠军。

His rise was followed avidly by Berlin's largely-Jewish avant-garde, who had fallen in love with boxing.

他的崛起受到了柏林的主要是犹太裔的先锋派的热切追随，他们爱上了拳击。

Max took to the strange world of Weimar society as if he had been born to it.

马克斯融入了魏玛社会的奇怪世界，就好像他生来就属于这个世界一样。

Within two years, the raw provincial boy was wearing tux and tails and attending all the best parties...

两年之内，这个原始的乡下男孩就穿着燕尾服和燕尾服，参加所有最好的派对……

He goes on a self-improvement campaign.

他继续进行自我完善的活动。

He starts reading books about and by his new circle of friends.

他开始阅读有关他的新朋友圈的书籍。

He seemed to always be able to adapt.

他似乎总是能够适应。

If I had a theme for Max's life it would be that he's a survivor, he adapts to the situation, he adapts to the people he's dealing with.

如果我给麦克斯的生活定一个主题的话，那就是他是一个幸存者，他适应环境，他适应与他打交道的人。

By 1928, Max Schmeling had achieved everything he could in European boxing.

到 1928 年，马克斯·施梅林 (Max Schmeling) 已经在欧洲拳击界取得了一切成就。

He and his manager Arthur Bulow set sail for New York and a shot at boxing's biggest prize: the heavyweight championship of the world.

他和他的经纪人阿瑟·布洛（Arthur Bulow）启程前往纽约，并尝试争夺拳击界的最高奖项：世界重量级冠军。

Since the late 19th Century, the heavyweight championship had been largely the property of America, and within America of the white race.

自19世纪末以来，重量级冠军基本上是美国的财产，并且是美国白人的财产。

There had only been one black heavyweight champion before and many white Americans vowed that he'd be the last.

此前只有一位黑人重量级冠军，许多美国白人发誓他将是最后一位。

His name was Jack Johnson.

他的名字叫杰克·约翰逊。

Johnson cut a broad swath through the consciousness of America with his fists and his mouth.

约翰逊用拳头和嘴巴在美国的意识中留下了深刻的印象。

As he brawled his way to the world championship in 1908, Johnson became notorious for taunting and humiliating his white opponents.

1908 年，当约翰逊一路斗殴夺得世界冠军时，他因嘲讽和羞辱白人对手而臭名昭著。

But he was even more provocative outside the ring, consorting openly with white women.

但他在场外更具挑衅性，公开与白人女性交往。

He desegregated more whorehouses than anybody in history.

他废除种族隔离的妓院比历史上任何人都多。

He was a wild man.

他是个野人。

There's a famous story that he's driving through Georgia and the sheriff stops him and says you're driving eighty miles an hour, you're fined fifty dollars.

有一个著名的故事，他开车穿过佐治亚州，治安官拦住了他，说你的驾驶速度是每小时八十英里，你会被罚款五十美元。

And Jack Johnson hands the sheriff a hundred dollar bill and says, 'I'm coming back the same way'.

杰克·约翰逊递给治安官一百美元的钞票并说：“我会原路返回”。

Fight promoters began to look high and low for "a Great White Hope" who could end Jack Johnson's reign.

拳击发起人开始上下寻找能够结束杰克·约翰逊统治的“伟大的白人希望”。

When none was found, federal prosecutors stepped in with a trumped up morals charge.

当没有找到任何证据后，联邦检察官介入，提出了捏造的道德指控。

But it was other black fighters who would pay the steepest price for the bigotry Johnson stirred.

但其他黑人战士将为约翰逊煽动的偏执付出最惨重的代价。

For the next decade, while Jack Dempsey ruled the ring, his best competition watched from outside the ropes.

在接下来的十年里，虽然杰克·邓普西统治了擂台，但他最好的比赛却是在绳圈外观看。

John Roxborough refused to be discouraged by boxing's color lines.

约翰·罗克斯伯勒（John Roxborough）拒绝因拳击界的肤色界限而气馁。

Two decades after Jack Johnson had been forced from the ring, he believed it was time for another black heavyweight champion, and he thought he had the fighter to do it.

杰克·约翰逊被迫退出拳击场二十年后，他相信是时候再出现一位黑人重量级冠军了，而且他认为自己有能力做到这一点。

The person who was going to get the shot at the heavyweight title had to be a special individual.

想要获得重量级冠军头衔的人必须是一个特殊的人。

Not only a great boxer, but this person had to be more.

这个人不仅是一位伟大的拳击手，而且还必须更加出色。

This person had to be non-threatening to white society, to white dominance, to white values.

这个人必须对白人社会、白人统治、白人价值观不构成威胁。

Roxborough and Black set down a series of rules for their young fighter, which they shared freely with reporters.

罗克斯伯勒和布莱克为他们的年轻拳手制定了一系列规则，并与记者自由分享。

He could not gloat over opponents.

他不能对对手幸灾乐祸。

He could not be seen in public with white women.

他不能在公共场合与白人女性在一起。

He had to be seen as a Bible reading, mother loving, god fearing, individual, and not to be too black.

他必须被视为读圣经的人、慈母、敬畏上帝、有个性的人，而且不能太黑人。

Joe had already seen what happened to impudent blacks in his own lifetime, so he willingly donned the mask of the "Good Negro".

乔在他的一生中已经看到了无礼黑人的下场，所以他心甘情愿地戴上了“好黑人”的面具。

Nobody knew how deeply Joe really felt, because remember Black and Roxborough had schooled him to suppress his, his emotions.

没有人知道乔的真实感受有多深，因为请记住布莱克和罗克斯伯勒教会他压抑自己的情绪。

So he, he never really showed them.

所以他，他从来没有真正向他们展示过。

The mask was not just for the outside world, it was also for Joe: a way to shield himself from revealing too much of what was inside.

面具不仅是为了外面的世界，也是为了乔：一种保护自己不暴露太多内心世界的方式。

"He says less than any sports figure in history" observed one writer.

一位作家评论道：“他说的话比历史上任何体育人物都要少。”

"And that includes Dummy Taylor, the mute pitcher for the Giants." Only in the ring could Joe really let himself go and he did so with a fury that thrilled -- and terrified.

“其中包括巨人队的静音投手达米·泰勒。”只有在擂台上，乔才能真正放飞自我，他这样做的时候带着一种令人兴奋和恐惧的愤怒。

By the middle of 1935, Louis had won his first 23 professional bouts -- an average of one every two weeks --and was beginning to earn glowing notices.

到 1935 年中期，路易斯已经赢得了他的前 23 场职业比赛——平均每两周一场——并开始赢得人们的关注。

But he hadn't fought east of Detroit yet.

但他还没有在底特律以东打过仗。

The road to the big prize, the heavyweight championship, stretched ahead a thousand miles to New York.

通往大奖——重量级冠军的道路，绵延一千英里到达纽约。

Seven years earlier, in 1928, Max Schmeling had arrived in New York with his own roadmap to the heavyweight crown; but New York hardly took notice.

七年前，也就是 1928 年，马克斯·施梅林 (Max Schmeling) 带着他自己的重量级拳王路线图来到了纽约。但纽约几乎没有注意到。

In the 1920's, foreign fighters were not treated well in New York City.

1920 年代，外国战士在纽约市并没有受到很好的待遇。

One could be a national champion of Germany or France, or Italy, or any other country you were still treated like a six round fighter in New York.

其中一个可能是德国、法国、意大利或任何其他国家的国家冠军，你在纽约仍被视为六回合拳击手。

In typical fashion, Schmeling adapted to his new surroundings.

施梅林以典型的方式适应了他的新环境。

He abruptly fired his mentor Aruthur Bulow, and hired in his place a wily New Yorker named Joe Jacobs, known widely as "Yussel the Muscle".

他突然解雇了他的导师阿鲁瑟·布洛（Aruthur Bulow），并聘请了一位狡猾的纽约人乔·雅各布斯（Joe Jacobs）代替他，他被称为“肌肉尤塞尔”。

This was the quintessential boxing manager of the twenties and thirties.

这是二三十年代典型的拳击经理。

Cigar-smoking, Fedora-wearing guy.

抽雪茄、穿着软呢帽的家伙。

Uh, had the uh, the boutonniere on his lapel would go in and talk a mile a minute...He was the guy who could open doors.

呃，呃，他翻领上的胸花会进去，一分钟说一英里……他是那个能开门的人。

He was the guy who get him the publicity.

他是让他获得公众关注的人。

He was the guy who had the contacts.

他是那个有联系的人。

That's the biggest thing in boxing: he had contacts.

这就是拳击界最重要的事情：他有联系。

They made an unlikely pair: the square-jawed Teuton and the wiry, wise-cracking Jew.

他们是一对不太可能的组合：方下巴的条顿人和精瘦、爱说俏皮话的犹太人。

It didn't hurt that Schmeling was a dead-ringer for Jack Dempsey.

施梅林是杰克·登普西的忠实粉丝，这并没有什么坏处。

Soon, Jacobs was placing flattering profiles in the sports pages and getting fights.

很快，雅各布斯就在体育版面上刊登了讨人喜欢的简介，并引发了争吵。

In 1930, after only two years in America, Schmeling landed a bout with Jack Sharkey for the vacant heavyweight championship.

1930 年，在美国仅仅呆了两年后，施梅林就与杰克·夏基争夺空缺的重量级冠军。

Eighty thousand fans filled the Yankee Stadium in a fight billed as a battle between the continents Sharkey came out swinging, and was out-pointing Schmeling on all the judges cards.

八万名球迷挤满了洋基体育场，这场比赛被宣传为大陆之间的战斗，夏基表现出色，在所有裁判牌上都指出了施梅林。

But in the fourth round, he made a fatal mistake.

但到了第四回合，他却犯了致命的错误。

Corralled against the ropes, he slugged Schmeling below the belt.

他被绳子围住，猛击施梅林的腰带以下。

Schmeling clutched himself and fell onto the canvas and started to get up...

施梅林抱住自己，倒在画布上，开始站起来……

It was at that point that Joe Jacobs sprung into action and stood up and started shouting don't get up, don't get up, you were fouled, you were fouled ...

就在那时，乔·雅各布斯突然行动起来，站起来并开始大喊别站起来，别站起来，你被犯规了，你被犯规了......

he starts running around the ring, he starts running to the ref, he starts pleading Schmeling's case, There's this moment of great indecision and tumult in the ring and outside the ring.

他开始绕着擂台跑，他开始跑向裁判，他开始为施梅林辩护，擂台内外都出现了犹豫不决和骚动的时刻。

And finally um, Schmeling was declared the victor.

最后，嗯，施梅林被宣布为胜利者。

Schmeling returned to Germany with a heavyweight title, but little honor.

施梅林带着重量级冠军回到德国，但荣誉很少。

He's called "the low blow champion." He becomes the punch line of jokes.

他被称为“低击冠军”。他成为笑话的妙语。

He becomes an object of disdain for many cabaret routines.

他成为许多歌舞表演的蔑视对象。

The Germany Max returned to was a far darker place than the one he had left.

德国麦克斯返回的地方比他离开时要黑暗得多。

The economy was collapsing under an avalanche of worthless marks - unemployment was rising, and with it violence in the streets.

经济在大量毫无价值的货币的冲击下崩溃了——失业率不断上升，随之而来的是街头暴力。

Once on the fringes, the Nazi Party was drawing strength from chaos.

一旦处于边缘，纳粹党就从混乱中汲取力量。

Suddenly, the implacable glare of the Party's leader could be seen everywhere.

顿时，党的领袖的冷酷目光随处可见。

In January, 1933, Adolph Hitler assumed sole power over Germany and immediately began a quiet campaign of terror.

1933 年 1 月，阿道夫·希特勒 (Adolph Hitler) 独掌德国，并立即开始了一场悄无声息的恐怖行动。

Many of Schmeling's old friends -- Jews, homosexuals, communists who had found a home in the Weimar cabarets - suddenly found themselves outcast and fled or were banished from the new Germany.

施梅林的许多老朋友——犹太人、同性恋者、在魏玛歌舞厅找到了家的共产主义者——突然发现自己被排斥，要么逃离，要么被驱逐出新德国。

May 10th after the takeover, there was a book burning.

5月10日接管后，发生了烧书事件。

And a lot of those books were by these artists that had been very close to Max Schmeling.

其中很多书都是由与马克斯·施梅林关系密切的艺术家所写。

So all of these people were in trouble once the political winds had shifted.

因此，一旦政治风向发生转变，所有这些人都会陷入麻烦。

But Max had already tacked again and set himself with the prevailing winds.

但马克斯已经再次逆风航行，顺着盛行风向航行。

In 1932, he had married the Czech-born movie star Anny Ondra.

1932年，他与捷克出生的电影明星安妮·翁德拉结婚。

Blond and beautiful, she was the picture of an Aryan princess and a favorite of Hitler's inner circle.

她金发碧眼，美丽动人，就像雅利安公主一样，也是希特勒核心圈子的宠儿。

Max and Anny became Germany's most glamorous couple, even appearing together in a popular movie.

马克斯和安妮成为德国最迷人的情侣，甚至一起出现在一部热门电影中。

The same year, Schmeling fought a rematch against American Jack Sharkey.

同年，施梅林与美国选手杰克·夏基进行了复赛。

This time, he lost his title in a widely condemned split-decision.

这一次，他在受到广泛谴责的分歧决定中失去了冠军头衔。

He got redemption in the only way that he could.

他以他唯一能做的方式得到了救赎。

He was seen to be a victim, a victim of a political decision in a way, and so when he came back to Germany all of a sudden he was a hero.

他被视为受害者，在某种程度上是政治决定的受害者，所以当他回到德国时，他突然成为了英雄。

The people really seemed to like him.

人们似乎真的很喜欢他。

The way he had, the looks you know.

他的样子，你知道的外表。

There's an old Jewish saying: you have to have a punem as well, you know a punem and Schmeling had that certain look which attracted the people.

有一句古老的犹太谚语：你还必须有一个普内姆，你知道普内姆和施梅林有那种吸引人们的外观。

Max' fame brought him freedom to pursue his career in America, great wealth, and access to the highest echelons.

马克斯的名气给他带来了在美国追求事业的自由、巨大的财富以及进入最高层的机会。

At first, Schmeling had no particular fondness for Hitler.

起初，施梅林对希特勒并没有特别的好感。

In fact he and Anny laughed over the Fuhrer's resemblance to Charlie Chaplin.

事实上，他和安妮嘲笑元首与查理·卓别林的相似之处。

But Max did admire power and understood its usefulness.

但马克斯确实钦佩权力并理解它的用处。

When he wanted to help somebody, he always turned directly to Hitler or his aides.

当他想帮助别人时，他总是直接向希特勒或他的助手求助。

He liked to associate with them.

他喜欢和他们交往。

This doesn't necessarily show a love for the Nazis, but rather a love of the powerful, of people who stood in the spotlight.

这并不一定表现出对纳粹的热爱，而是对强者、站在聚光灯下的人们的热爱。

Schmeling wanted to be the center of attention.

施梅林想成为关注的焦点。

Schmeling tried to ingratiate himself on two continents: He courted American fight fans, visiting New York often with Joe Jacobs conspicuously by his side.

施梅林试图在两大洲讨好自己：他讨好美国拳击迷，经常访问纽约，乔·雅各布斯就在他身边。

But he was also willing to carry out the bidding of the Nazi regime.

但他也愿意执行纳粹政权的命令。

As he prepared to return to New York in June, 1933, Hitler summoned him for a meeting.

1933 年 6 月，当他准备返回纽约时，希特勒召集他参加一次会议。

And toward the end Hitler says two things.

最后希特勒说了两件事。

On the one hand, he said: if you run into problems, feel free to contact me if I can be of any help.

一方面，他说：如果你遇到问题，可以随时联系我，我可以提供帮助。

Uh, the second thing he says is when you go to the United States, um, you're going to obviously be interviewed by people who are thinking that very bad things are going on in Germany at this moment.

呃，他说的第二件事是，当你去美国时，嗯，你显然会接受那些认为德国目前正在发生非常糟糕的事情的人的采访。

And I hope you'll be able to tell them that the situation isn't as bleak as they think it is.

我希望你能够告诉他们，情况并不像他们想象的那么黯淡。

And that basically was the contract under which the two of them would operate from that point on.

这基本上就是他们两人从那时起开始运作的合同。

It certainly was a devil's contract.

这确实是魔鬼的契约。

Only days after their meeting, Hitler purged German boxing of Jews.

他们会面几天后，希特勒就清除了德国拳击界对犹太人的迫害。

He ordered a national boycott of Jewish stores.

他下令全国抵制犹太商店。

Many business were ransacked and destroyed, and Jews paraded in the streets.

许多商店遭到洗劫和破坏，犹太人在街上游行。

Nevertheless, upon his return to New York, Schmeling upheld his end of the bargain.

尽管如此，回到纽约后，施梅林还是坚持了自己的诺言。

After arriving in the States, Schmeling held a press conference.

抵达美国后，施梅林召开了新闻发布会。

Many journalists were waiting to hear about conditions in Germany.

许多记者都在等待了解德国的情况。

Schmeling told them that everything was okay and quiet in his home country.

施梅林告诉他们，他的祖国一切都很好，很安静。

He denied that Jewish people were persecuted.

他否认犹太人受到迫害。

His assignment was to calm down the American people.

他的任务是安抚美国人民。

But Schmeling's efforts to please both his government and his American public could at times could tangle him and his manager up in knots.

但施梅林为取悦政府和美国公众所做的努力有时可能会让他和他的经理陷入困境。

In 1935, he fought a come-back bout against the American Steve Hamas in his hometown of Hamburg.

1935年，他在家乡汉堡与美国选手史蒂夫·哈马斯进行了复出比赛。

The event very much resembled a Nazi party convention.

这次活动非常类似于纳粹党代表大会。

There were SA bands playing.

有 SA 乐队在演奏。

Speeches were made, there were un-ending "Sieg Heil" and "Heil Hitler"- cheers, ending with Schmeling's victory over the American.

演讲结束后，“Sieg Heil”和“Heil Hitler”的欢呼声不断，最终施梅林战胜了美国人。

After Schmeling knocked out Hamas, he and twenty-nine thousand fans spontaneously stood and sang the Nazi anthem with arms raised in the Sieg Heil.

施梅林击倒哈马斯后，他和两万九千名球迷自发起立，高举双臂高唱纳粹国歌。

It was a moment of high Wagnerian pageantry.

这是瓦格纳式的盛大时刻。

And in the middle of it all, Joe Jacobs climbed into the ring and also gave the Nazi salute.

就在这一切的中间，乔·雅各布斯爬上擂台，也行了纳粹礼。

It made the Nazis unhappy because here was this Jew giving the Nazi salute and not only that, he had a cigar in his hand, which they thought was a terrible impertinence.

这让纳粹很不高兴，因为这个犹太人在行纳粹礼，不仅如此，他手里还拿着一支雪茄，他们认为这是一种非常无礼的行为。

Jacobs reception in America was no warmer when a photograph of the salute appeared in newspapers the next day.

第二天，一张致敬的照片出现在报纸上，雅各布斯在美国的受欢迎程度并没有好转。

While Max Schmeling rode out the vicisitudes of an up-and-down career, Joe Louis was heading in one direction only: straight up.

马克斯·施梅林 (Max Schmeling) 经历了职业生涯的起起落落，而乔·路易斯 (Joe Louis) 则只朝着一个方向前进：直线上升。

By 1935, Louis had raced through the lower ranks of professional boxing.

到 1935 年，路易斯已经跻身职业拳击的低级别。

Next stop, the big-time: New York.

下一站，重要的一站：纽约。

In the 1930s, New York was the capital of boxing.

20世纪30年代，纽约是拳击之都。

The Mecca.

麦加。

There were no casinos, there was no Las Vegas, there was no Atlantic City, big fights happened at 50th Street and Eighth Avenue in the old Madison Square Garden.

没有赌场，没有拉斯维加斯，没有大西洋城，大型斗殴事件发生在老麦迪逊广场花园的第50街和第八大道。

New York boxing was controlled by one company: the giant Madison Square Garden Corporation.

纽约拳击运动由一家公司控制：巨型麦迪逊广场花园公司。

The Garden promoted the fights and owned the fighters -- and they wanted nothing to do with a black heavyweight.

花园促进了拳击比赛并拥有了拳击手——他们不想与黑人重量级人物有任何关系。

There was one fight promoter willing to take a chance on Joe: Mike Jacobs, otherwise known as 'Uncle Mike'.

有一位拳击发起人愿意在乔身上冒险：迈克·雅各布斯，也被称为“迈克叔叔”。

Jacobs -- no relation to Schmeling's manager - owned a thick New York brogue and a set of poorly-molded false teeth: through which he'd mutter his signature line: 'What's in it for Uncle Mike?'

雅各布斯——与施梅林的经理没有关系——拥有一口浓重的纽约粗革皮鞋和一副模压不佳的假牙：他会通过假牙嘀咕出他的标志性台词：“迈克叔叔有什么用呢？”

Uncle Mike could turn anything to his advantage, even the Depression, which finally gave him his chance to go after the Madison Square Garden's monopoly on boxing.

迈克叔叔可以把任何事情变成他的优势，甚至是大萧条，这最终给了他机会去追求麦迪逊广场花园对拳击的垄断。

For years, the Garden had donated generously to the Milk Fund for Babies, the favorite charity of Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, wife of the newspaper tycoon.

多年来，花园一直向婴儿牛奶基金慷慨捐赠，这是报业大亨的妻子威廉·伦道夫·赫斯特夫人最喜欢的慈善机构。

In gratitude, Hearst's stable of big-time sportswriters spilled gallons of ink promoting the Garden's fights.

为了表达谢意，赫斯特的一流体育记者们为花园里的比赛倾注了大量的墨水。

But with boxing in the doldrums thanks to the Depression, the Garden had cut back on Mrs. Hearst's charity.

但由于大萧条，拳击运动陷入低迷，花园队削减了赫斯特夫人的慈善事业。

Uncle Mike stepped in.

麦克叔叔走了进来。

He made a deal with them to promote his own shows uh, with a bigger portion going towards the Milk Fund charity.

他与他们达成协议来宣传他自己的节目，呃，其中很大一部分捐给了牛奶基金慈善机构。

And in doing so, he became very chummy with some of the major newspaper reporters for, and a columnists for the Hearst newspapers.

在这样做的过程中，他与一些主要报纸的记者以及赫斯特报纸的专栏作家变得非常亲密。

This was a, a master stroke.

这是一招妙招。

Jacobs convinced three of Hearst's biggest sportswriters to join him in a new venture: The Twentieth Century Sporting Club.

雅各布斯说服了赫斯特旗下三位最大的体育撰稿人加入他的新事业：二十世纪体育俱乐部。

With the backing of the Hearst papers, Twentieth Century began to compete with the Garden for the biggest boxing promotions, drawing thousands to the cavernous New York Hippodrome.

在赫斯特报纸的支持下，二十世纪开始与花园竞争最大的拳击促销活动，吸引了数千人来到纽约竞技场。

Mike Jacobs has the venues, he has the press behind him, but he needs a big draw.

迈克·雅各布斯有场地，有媒体在背后支持他，但他需要一个大的吸引力。

And he sees something special in Joe Louis

他在乔·路易斯身上看到了一些特别的东西

What Mike Jacobs saw was not Louis' skin color, but his already strong hold on black Americans, whose money was as green as anyone else's.

迈克·雅各布斯看到的不是路易斯的肤色，而是他对美国黑人的牢固控制，他们的钱和其他人的钱一样绿色。

There were these stories working their way back east about this mythical boxer who was going to be the Moses of boxing.

关于这位即将成为拳击界摩西的神话拳击手的故事一直流传到东方。

So you have this incredible scene where Joe Louis comes to New York for the first time in May of 1935 and the bellhops carry him off the train.

1935 年 5 月，乔·路易斯 (Joe Louis) 第一次来到纽约，服务员把他抬下了火车，这一幕令人难以置信。

They all knew who he was and they were waiting for him to get there.

他们都知道他是谁，并且正在等待他到达那里。

With an evangelical following of black fight fans, Mike Jacobs rushed to set up a coming-out party for his heralded young phenom.

迈克·雅各布斯 (Mike Jacobs) 拥有一批黑人拳击迷的福音派追随者，他急忙为他所推崇的年轻天才举办了一场出柜派对。

What they needed was a name opponent and a sacrificial lamb to show Louis at his best.

他们需要的是一个有名气的对手和一只牺牲品来展示路易斯的最佳状态。

Jacobs settled on an ex-heavyweight champion, the Italian giant Primo Carnera, otherwise known as the "Ambling Alp".

雅各布斯选择了前重量级冠军、意大利巨人普里莫·卡内拉（Primo Carnera），也被称为“安布林·阿尔普”（Ambling Alp）。

Carnera was between six foot five and six foot six.

卡内拉身高在六英尺五到六英尺六之间。

He weighed generally between two hundred and sixty and two hundred and eighty pounds.

他的体重一般在两百六十到两百八十磅之间。

And there uh, were people, sportswriters included who claimed there should be a special dreadnaught class for men like Carnera.

呃，有人，包括体育记者，声称应该为像卡内拉这样的人开设一个特殊的无畏级。

In fact, Carnera was hardly a fighter at all.

事实上，卡内拉根本算不上一名战士。

For years, he'd been managed by New York gangsters, and had won a series of fixed fights, including it was rumored, the World Championship in 1933.

多年来，他一直受到纽约黑帮的控制，并赢得了一系列固定的比赛，其中包括传闻中的 1933 年世界冠军。

Over time, Carnera had learned some rudimentary skills in the ring.

随着时间的推移，卡内拉学会了一些基本的拳击技巧。

But what was most important to Mike Jacobs was that the paying public loved him.

但对迈克·雅各布斯来说，最重要的是付费公众对他的喜爱。

The Louis Carnera fight was the most anticipated to hit New York in a decad.

路易斯·卡内拉之战是纽约十年来最受期待的一场比赛。

Mike Jacobs' publicity agents had cleverly linked the fight to a brewing international crisis: Italy, symbolized by the giant Carnera, was preparing to invade the Kingdom of Ethiopia, embodied by the relatively diminutive Louis.

迈克·雅各布斯的宣传人员巧妙地将这场斗争与正在酝酿的国际危机联系起来：以巨人卡内拉为代表的意大利正准备入侵以相对较小的路易斯为代表的埃塞俄比亚王国。

In the end, the Man Mountain turned out to be more like a molehill.

最终，曼山变得更像是一个小山丘。

Louis knocked him out in the 6th round.

路易斯在第六回合将他击倒。

"Primo came down slowly," one reporter wrote, "like a great chimney that had been dynamited."

“普里莫慢慢地落下来，”一位记者写道，“就像一个被炸毁的大烟囱。”

After the fight, more than 20,000 people showed up at the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem where Louis had promised to appear - win, lose or draw.

比赛结束后，超过 20,000 人出现在哈莱姆区的 Savoy 宴会厅，路易斯曾承诺无论输赢或平局都会出现在那里。

When the fighter finally showed, he wore his usual blank expression, "as if the crowd were looking at someone else", one writer remarked.

一位作家评论说，当这名斗士最终出现时，他一如往常的茫然表情，“就好像人群在看着别人”。

"It was all too big and too much for just a kid," Louis would later say.

“对于一个孩子来说，这一切太大了，太多了，”路易斯后来说。

But in fact it was only just beginning.

但事实上这才刚刚开始。

Overnight, Louis had become the biggest draw in the fight game.

一夜之间，路易斯成为了格斗比赛中最大的看点。

Over the next year, Jacobs easily set up opponents for Joe and Joe just as easily knocked them down.

在接下来的一年里，雅各布斯轻松地为乔树立了对手，乔也同样轻松地击败了他们。

Louis was going through the heavyweight division like Sherman through Georgia: Kingfish Levinsky, one round.

路易斯正在经历重量级比赛，就像谢尔曼经历乔治亚州一样：王鱼莱文斯基，一轮。

Max Baer, four rounds.

马克斯·贝尔，四轮。

Primo Carnera, six rounds.

普里莫卡内拉，六轮。

Stanley Poreda, one round.

斯坦利·波雷达，一轮。

Lee Ramage, three rounds.

李·拉米奇，三轮。

Nobody can do anything against this young man.

没有人能对这个年轻人做任何事。

He has the big punch, he has the power, he has the style, he is capturing the popular imagination.

他有重拳、有力量、有风格，他正在抓住大众的想象力。

With each victory, Joe's stature in black America rose higher.

随着每一次胜利，乔在美国黑人中的地位越来越高。

We invested so much in Joe Louis when he started winning, we needed some victories the fact that Joe Louis was winning without any dispute over white America.

当乔·路易斯开始获胜时，我们在他身上投入了很多，我们需要一些胜利，因为乔·路易斯在美国白人问题上没有任何争议。

He was our nonviolent, violent way of expressing ourselves.

他是我们表达自己的非暴力或暴力方式。

We had never had guys to look up to when he first started.

当他刚开始的时候，我们从来没有值得尊敬的人。

We didn't have nobody.

我们没有人。

He comes on and we had somebody to look up to.

他上场了，我们有了值得尊敬的人。

Ravaged by the Depression and virulent racism, many blacks invested Joe with the strength they lacked.

受到大萧条和恶毒种族主义的蹂躏，许多黑人向乔注入了他们所缺乏的力量。

Joe Louis's victories over white opponents were palpable and tangible.

乔·路易斯对白人对手的胜利是显而易见的。

And blacks saw in them something that, that fed them

黑人在他们身上看到了一些可以滋养他们的东西

Joe tried to live up to peoples' expectations, but the adulation of the outside world was making it harder to play the "Good Negro".

乔试图不辜负人们的期望，但外界的奉承让扮演“好黑人”变得更加困难。

Louis had become so big, so fast that he no longer had time for his managers' sermons.

路易斯变得如此庞大、如此迅速，以至于他不再有时间听他的经理们说教。

I happened to be in different cities when he would come through and uh, there was always a woman in that city although I don't know names.

当他经过时，我碰巧在不同的城市，呃，那个城市总是有一个女人，尽管我不知道名字。

But I would see girls.

但我会看到女孩。

Sometimes it would be chorus girls or a singer from a show -- he scored.

有时是合唱队女孩或表演歌手——他得分。

Trying to keep the mask from slipping, Joe's handlers encouraged him to marry a beautiful young secretary named Marva Trotter.

为了防止面具滑落，乔的上司鼓励他与一位名叫玛瓦·特罗特的年轻漂亮秘书结婚。

The couple walked the streets of Harlem like movie stars.

这对夫妇像电影明星一样走在哈莱姆区的街道上。

But nuptials did little to slow Joe down.

但婚礼并没有让乔放慢脚步。

I heard that Roxborough picked that girl for him.

我听说罗克斯伯勒为他挑选了那个女孩。

He did.

他做到了。

They did.

他们做到了。

He picked her.

他选择了她。

He was getting into things.

他正在投入一些事情。

And they decided he that should marry somebody.

他们决定他应该嫁给某人。

She was attractive, she was intelligent and he said well I'll just go along with the program.

她很有吸引力，很聪明，他说好吧，我就同意这个计划。

When they was in town.

当他们在城里的时候。

We'd slip off to Toledo at night, slip away from Marva, and I don't know it was just one of those things.

我们会在晚上溜到托莱多，溜走玛瓦，我不知道这只是其中之一。

It look like it was just a business deal.

看起来这只是一笔生意。

You got the marriage to keep you out of trouble.

你结婚是为了让你摆脱麻烦。

Unlike Jack Johnson before him, Joe never flaunted his personal life, and sportswriters kept his secrets.

与之前的杰克·约翰逊不同，乔从不炫耀自己的个人生活，体育记者也保守着他的秘密。

But that didn't mean they treated him well.

但这并不意味着他们待他很好。

In the end, the mask could only offer Joe so much protection from white racism.

最终，面具只能为乔提供有限的保护，使其免受白人种族主义的侵害。

America was a different country in 1934 and 1936 and if you go back and read the sports writing of the '30s, there are despicable repugnant stereotypes of Louis as dumb, as lazy, on one hand, or as an animal of the jungle on the other hand.

1934 年和 1936 年的美国是一个不同的国家，如果你回顾一下 30 年代的体育报道，你会发现路易斯一方面是愚蠢、懒惰的，另一方面是丛林动物的卑鄙、令人反感的刻板印象。

Louis was picking up a growing number of white fans - laid low by the Depression themselves - they responded to his rags-to-riches story.

路易斯赢得了越来越多的白人粉丝——他们本身就因大萧条而低迷——他们对他白手起家的故事做出了回应。

But there were still millions who wished to see Joe stopped in his tracks.

但仍有数百万人希望看到乔停止前进。

"Good Negro" or not, he was still a black man physically dominating his white opponents.

不管他是否“好黑人”，他仍然是一个在身体上压倒白人对手的黑人。

And so many hankered for the return of a "Great White Hope".

许多人都渴望“伟大的白色希望”的回归。

But few imagined that the savior might come in the form of an aging fighter from across the Atlantic.

但很少有人想到，救世主可能会以一位来自大西洋彼岸的老战士的形式出现。

By 1936, Max Schemling's up-and-down career was on an upswing.

到了 1936 年，马克斯·谢姆林起起落落的职业生涯开始步入上升期。

He'd won four fights in a row in Europe, and scrapped his way back into contention in the heavyweight division.

他在欧洲连赢了四场比赛，并在重量级比赛中奋起直追。

Despite his age, he had become the next logical opponent for Joe Louis.

尽管他年纪大了，但他已经成为乔·路易斯的下一个理所当然的对手。

The fight would be crucial: the winner to get a shot at the world champion Jimmy Braddock, a former longshoreman with brittle hands who had come to be known as "The Cinderella Man".

这场战斗至关重要：获胜者将有机会挑战世界冠军吉米·布拉多克(Jimmy Braddock)。吉米·布拉多克是一名双手脆弱的前码头工人，后来被称为“灰姑娘男人”。

When Louis fought Schmeling the idea was that either one of them could beat Braddock and therefore what mattered was who would have the privilege of fighting Braddock first.

当路易斯与施梅林战斗时，他们的想法是他们中的任何一个都可以击败布拉多克，因此重要的是谁将有幸先与布拉多克战斗。

This was really the fight for the world championship.

这才是真正的世界冠军争夺战。

No one gave Max much of a chance.

没有人给马克斯太多机会。

The boxing press scoffed, calling him "Moxie" Schmeling for daring even to take the fight.

拳击媒体嘲笑他，称他为“莫西”施梅林，因为他甚至敢于参加战斗。

But Schmeling would not yield to doubt.

但施梅林不会屈服于怀疑。

He schooled in Nazi propaganda, he believed he had one decisive advantage over his opponent...

他接受过纳粹宣传教育，他相信自己比对手有一个决定性的优势……

I think that he thought that he could outthink him.

我认为他认为自己可以超越他。

That his brain was better than that of Joe.

他的大脑比乔的好。

Schmeling began to study Louis' fights, looking for something, anything he could use to his advantage.

施梅林开始研究路易斯的战斗，寻找一些东西，任何他可以利用的东西。

I think that with a Germanic thoroughness that Schmeling had he looked at every - every available foot of film on, on Louis.

我认为施梅林以一种日耳曼式的彻底性，审视了路易斯身上的每一个可用的镜头。

He not only ran it forward - he would stop it - he would actually run it backward - he would put it in slow motion.

他不仅会向前跑——他会停下来——他实际上会向后跑——他会把它放慢动作。

After weeks of study, Schmeling believed the film had yielded something -- a small defect in Louis' overwhelming attack.

经过几周的研究，施梅林相信这部电影已经取得了一些成果——路易斯压倒性攻击中的一个小缺陷。

When Joe Louis jabbed and he was a great, he had the great, greatest jab in the history of boxing up to that time, he would jab but his jab would come down to his waist rather than up to his face

当乔·路易斯（Joe Louis）刺拳时，他是一位伟大的人，他在拳击史上进行了迄今为止最伟大、最伟大的刺拳，他会刺拳，但他的刺拳会向下到他的腰部，而不是到他的脸

Uh, and that was the split second where Schmeling could land his uh, right hand.

呃，就在那一瞬间，施梅林的呃右手落地了。

He, he believed in that.

他，他相信这一点。

Schmeling left Germany for New York with little fanfare.

施梅林没有大张旗鼓地离开德国前往纽约。

Unlike Max himself, the Nazis had no confidence that he could win.

与马克斯本人不同，纳粹对他能够获胜没有信心。

On the orders of Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels', Nazi newspapers had buried the story of the fight.

根据宣传部长约瑟夫·戈培尔的命令，纳粹报纸掩盖了这场战斗的故事。

Hitler was annoyed that he was going to fight a Negro.

希特勒对他要与黑人作战感到恼火。

Schmeling with a Jewish manager and fighting a Negro, a nigger.

施梅林和一个犹太经理在一起，和一个黑人打架，一个黑鬼。

No, no, and, and I don't think they expected him to have a chance.

不，不，而且，我认为他们不希望他有机会。

At his Lakewood camp, Louis seemed overconfident; and the only person who could have whipped him into shape was in no shape himself.

在他的莱克伍德营地，路易斯似乎过于自信。而唯一能把他打造成成形的人，就是没有成形的他自己。

I think at that point, Jack Blackburn's problems had affected him.

我认为在那时，杰克·布莱克本的问题已经影响了他。

Jack was drinking: his camp was confused.

杰克正在喝酒：他的阵营很混乱。

And uh, his mind was diverted.

而且呃，他的心思被转移了。

But Schmeling was focused, more focused than ever before.

但施梅林很专注，比以往任何时候都更加专注。

He was not only working on his body, but on his mind.

他不仅在身体上努力，也在精神上努力。

He knew that to land his right hand, he would have to be in close, and that meant overcoming his fear.

他知道要让右手落地，他必须靠得很近，而这意味着要克服他的恐惧。

Max thought that part of his strategy would have to be showing no fear.

马克斯认为他的策略的一部分必须表现出无所畏惧。

During the weigh-in he walks up to Joe Louis, shakes his hand, says, hello Joe, how do you do...

在称重期间，他走到乔·路易斯面前，握着他的手说，你好，乔，你好吗……

he comes away and shouts over his shoulder, good luck this evening, Joe.

他走开后回头喊道，祝今晚好运，乔。

Joe Louis and the press are, are perplexed by this show of courteous bravado.

乔·路易斯和媒体对这种彬彬有礼的虚张声势感到困惑。

Both fighters came out cautiously, feeling each other out.

两名战士都小心翼翼地出来，互相试探。

Schmeling would probe with his left jab.

施梅林会用左拳试探。

He didn't care if he, if he touched the opponent or not, but it was out there, he would probe with it and he'd move and he'd be looking for openings.

他不在乎他是否接触到对手，但对手就在那里，他会用它来探测，他会移动，他会寻找空档。

every time Louis jabbed, he'd return his left hand low at his side, rather than up here where it's supposed to be, where he could block a counter right hand.

每次路易斯刺拳时，他都会将左手放低到身体两侧，而不是放在应该放的地方，在那里他可以阻挡对手的右手。

At just over 2 minutes into the fourth round, Louis jabbed and Schmeling pounced.

第四轮刚开始2分钟多一点，路易斯就刺拳，施梅林猛扑。

He saw Joe Louis' hand drop.

他看到乔·路易斯的手垂了下来。

When that hand dropped, he came over with a right cross.

当那只手落下时，他右十字过来了。

Boxing is a very unique sport.

拳击是一项非常独特的运动。

You can have all the great assets like Joe Louis had, speed, great boxing ability, great footwork, great left jab, tremendous power in your punches, but if you're hit on the chin, all those assets go right down the drain.

你可以拥有像乔·路易斯那样的所有伟大资产，速度，出色的拳击能力，出色的步法，出色的左刺拳，出拳的巨大力量，但如果你的下巴被击中，所有这些资产都会付诸东流。

At that moment, Schmeling would later say, Louis changed from an indestructible force to "a hurt and bewildered boy".

施梅林后来说，在那一刻，路易斯从坚不可摧的力量变成了“一个受伤而困惑的男孩”。

He was out of it,' he wasn't himself for the rest of the fight.

他已经脱离了困境，”在接下来的战斗中他不再是他自己了。

He was fighting on heart and instinct alone.

他仅凭内心和本能而战。

After that it wasn't Joe Louis anymore, he was just a punching bag.

从那以后，他就不再是乔·路易斯了，他只是一个出气筒。

There was a pop, pop, every time one of those right hands landed.

每当其中一只右手落地时，都会发出“砰”的一声，“砰”的一声。

It sounded like a bag full of water coming down from the second floor of a building: "POP, POP', POP"

听起来就像一袋装满水的东西从大楼的二楼下来：“啪、啪”、“啪”

You just can't get hit by right hands by a heavyweight repeatedly.

你不能反复被重量级人物击中右手。

I don't care who you are.

我不在乎你是谁。

You get hit enough right hands, you're going, you know?

你的右手被打得够多了，你就走，知道吗？

And Schmeling could punch.

施梅林可以出拳。

And Schmeling was a good boxer.

施梅林是一位出色的拳击手。

And Joe was slow.

乔动作很慢。

And over-confident.

而且过于自信。

And believed nobody could beat him, and he found out different.

并相信没有人能打败他，但他发现了不同。

Finally, in the twelfth round, the punishment became too much.

终于到了第十二轮，惩罚变得太过分了。

(archival): And Schmeling came back with a terrific right to the jaw...

（档案）：施梅林带着一记精彩的右下巴回来了......

and then at close quarters, Schmeling shot a hard right to Louis' jaw that landed flush.

然后在近距离，施梅林一记重拳击中路易斯的下巴，落在齐平处。

And Donovan broke them.

多诺万打破了他们。

Schmeling got over two more hard rights to Louis' jaw and made Louis get down, and Schmeling straightened up Louis with hard rights and lefts to the jaw...He has puffed up Louis' cheek, and Louis' is down!

施梅林又用两次硬拳打到了路易斯的下巴，让路易斯趴下了，施梅林用右拳和左拳把路易斯的下巴拉直了……他把路易斯的脸颊鼓起来了，路易斯的脸颊就下来了！

Louis is down!

路易斯倒下了！

Hanging to the ropes and hanging badly!

挂在绳子上，而且挂得很厉害！

He's a very tired fighter, he is blinking his eyes, shaking his head and the count is ten.

他是一个非常疲惫的战士，他眨着眼睛，摇着头，数到了十。

The fight is over!

战斗结束了！

The fight is over!

战斗结束了！

LOUIS IS completely OUT!

路易斯彻底出局了！

You talk about after the fight now, there were throngs of people coming down the middle of the street, Everybody was just as quiet and all you could hear was oh, Louis was doped.

你现在谈论战斗结束后，街道中间有成群的人涌来，每个人都一样安静，你所能听到的只是哦，路易斯被迷药了。

I think he was doped.

我认为他服用了兴奋剂。

Everybody was sick.

每个人都病了。

Usually after Joe Louis got through fighting, everybody would be out in the streets, driving, honking their horns and doing this.

通常在乔·路易斯打完仗后，每个人都会走上街头，开车、按喇叭，做这些事情。

And not only in Detroit, Philadelphia, New York and Chicago, everywhere.

不仅在底特律，费城、纽约和芝加哥，到处都是。

Not that night, no..

不是那天晚上，不是..

it was a sad night...

这是一个悲伤的夜晚...

it was like a funeral it was...

这就像一场葬礼……

Nobody came out, no horns honking, no nothing.

没有人出来，没有喇叭鸣响，什么也没有。

I was sitting in my husband's lap and he was losing the fight and I was crying because he was losing the fight.

我坐在我丈夫的腿上，他输掉了战斗，我哭了，因为他输掉了战斗。

If I think about it hard enough I'll cry again.

如果我认真思考一下，我会再次哭泣。

As fast as Louis had been built up he was now torn down.

路易的建立速度很快，但现在他却被拆毁了。

The press denunciations were vehement, brutal, that he was a fabrication that this was all a kind of buildup of a nobody.

媒体的谴责是激烈而残酷的，他是捏造的，这都是无名之辈的集结。

Louis himself immediately left New York for the solace of his home-town.

路易斯本人立即离开纽约前往家乡寻求安慰。

Even there, he hid out, too ashamed to show his face.

即使在那里，他也躲了起来，羞于露面。

Joe come on the playground about a week after his head was swolled up, and dark glasses.

乔来到操场大约一周后，他的头肿了起来，并且戴着墨镜。

He didn't get out of the car.

他没有下车。

He just stayed in the car with his head swolled up

他只是呆在车里，头都肿起来了

Max Schmeling could finally return to Germany to a hero's welcome.

马克斯·施梅林终于可以回到德国，受到英雄般的欢迎。

Upon landing in Frankfurt, he was greeted by thousands of his countrymen lining the roadway for miles.

抵达法兰克福后，数千名同胞在数英里的道路上排队迎接他。

Always attentive to the public mood, the Nazis turned their cool handshake into a warm embrace.

纳粹始终关注公众情绪，将冷静的握手变成了温暖的拥抱。

Josef Goebbels, who had tried to bury the fight in the German press, now ordered lavish coverage of Schmeling's victory, including a photograph of himself listening to the fight with Max' wife Anny.

约瑟夫·戈培尔曾试图在德国媒体上掩盖这场战斗，现在他下令对施梅林的胜利进行大量报道，包括一张他自己与马克斯的妻子安妮一起聆听战斗的照片。

Within days of his return, Max was invited to dine with Hitler.

回国后几天，马克斯就被邀请与希特勒共进晚餐。

Hitler sensed the great enthusiasm the masses had for Schmeling.

希特勒感受到了群众对施梅林的巨大热情。

Most of all he was electrified when he watched the fight..

最重要的是，当他观看比赛时，他感到很兴奋。

He immediately ordered the film to be screened in theaters throughout Germany prior to each feature, it was to be called Schmeling's victory a German victory, the title Goebels invented.

他立即下令在每部影片上映前在德国各地的影院放映这部电影，这部电影被称为施梅林的胜利，德国的胜利，这个标题是戈培尔发明的。

You know it really brought it all back again.

你知道它真的让一切又回来了。

We were ecstatic again and very enthusiastic.

我们再次欣喜若狂，非常热情。

I remember that there was wild applause.

我记得现场响起了热烈的掌声。

The public acclaim was intoxicating.

公众的赞誉令人陶醉。

This is what Schmeling had always wanted: the adulation of a grateful nation.

这就是施梅林一直想要的：一个感恩的国家的崇拜。

But the cheers also made it easier for Max to turn away from what was happening in his country.

但欢呼声也让马克斯更容易忽视他的国家正在发生的事情。

For a while, perhaps, it had been possible to focus on progress: new jobs, and new optimism.

也许有一段时间，我们可以专注于进步：新的就业机会和新的乐观情绪。

But by 1935, no one could miss the giant rallies exulting the master race; new laws evicting Jews from the professions, and civil service; and the arrests, beatings, and executions of political enemies, including many of Max' old circle.

但到了 1935 年，没有人会错过那些为优胜者欢呼雀跃的大型集会；新法律将犹太人驱逐出职业和公务员队伍；以及政治敌人的逮捕、殴打和处决，其中包括马克斯老圈子的许多人。

Schmeling writes about how he would go to his favorite clubs and every week there'd be somebody new who was gone.

施梅林写道，他会如何去他最喜欢的俱乐部，而每周都会有新的人离开。

But he just looked the other way.

但他只是看向另一个方向。

He just didn't want to, he just didn't think about the larger questions.

他只是不想，他只是没有考虑更大的问题。

Occasionally, Schmeling tried to put in a word for his Jewish acquaintances.

施梅林偶尔会尝试为他的犹太熟人说几句话。

If he could do that, he reasoned, what was wrong with meeting with Hitler?

他推断，如果他能做到这一点，与希特勒会面又有什么错呢？

How could he, a mere sportsman, stand in the way of the Nazi juggernaut?

他，一个区区运动员，怎么能阻挡纳粹的势力呢？

There were many German personalities, who secretly did not agree with the regime.

有许多德国人士私下并不同意该政权。

But they still would have tea with the Nazi big-wigs.

但他们仍然会和纳粹大佬一起喝茶。

Why?

为什么？

Because they thought that staying alive was more important.

因为他们认为活着更重要。

Everybody who opposed the regime had to fear that the Gestapo would come and take them away.

每个反对该政权的人都不得不担心盖世太保会来把他们带走。

But Schmeling was not like other Germans.

但施梅林与其他德国人不同。

Schmeling was rich, he was famous.

施梅林很富有，他很有名。

He spoke English well.

他英语说得很好。

He had close friends in America and other countries.

他在美国和其他国家都有亲密的朋友。

He would have been welcome everywhere as the famous man that he was.

作为一个名人，他在任何地方都会受到欢迎。

Other prominent Germans had chosen to emigrate rather than live under the Nazis.

其他著名的德国人选择移民而不是生活在纳粹统治下。

Actress Marlene Dietrich, author Thomas Mann, film director Fritz Lang among others helped to open the eyes of the world to what was going on inside the Nazi state.

女演员玛琳·黛德丽、作家托马斯·曼、电影导演弗里茨·朗等人帮助让世界了解纳粹国家内部正在发生的事情。

But Schmeling remained silent, preferring the hero's life in Germany to an uncertain fate outside it.

但施梅林保持沉默，他更喜欢英雄在德国的生活，而不是在国外不确定的命运。

He was loyal to his government.

他忠于他的政府。

But his loyalty had a price.

但他的忠诚是有代价的。

He had to burden his conscience with the dark sides of the regime, which were so obvious: the dictatorship, the camps, the persecutions, the discrimination.

他不得不让自己的良心承受政权的阴暗面的负担，这些阴暗面是如此明显：独裁、集中营、迫害、歧视。

He accepted all this for the sake of his own wealth and fame.

为了自己的财富和名誉，他接受了这一切。

In later years, Schmeling would make much of the fact that he never became a member of the Nazi Party.

在后来的几年里，施梅林非常重视自己从未成为纳粹党成员的事实。

But, in fact, the Nazis had no interest in recruiting him.

但事实上，纳粹并没有兴趣招募他。

At one point, a friend of Schmeling's wrote to the head of the SS Heinrich Himmler, asking if Schmeling should become a Party Member

有一次，施梅林的一位朋友写信给党卫军头目海因里希·希姆莱，询问施梅林是否应该成为一名党员。

The responding letter by Himmler's adjutant states that the Fuehrer had decided Schmeling would be more useful to the German people if he neither belonged to the Nazi Party, the SS, the SA nor any other organization.

希姆莱副官的回信指出，元首认为，如果施梅林既不属于纳粹党、党卫军、冲锋队或任何其他组织，他对德国人民会更有用。

It was very pragmatic.

这是非常务实的。

Schmeling was most useful as somebody who was apolitical.

施梅林作为一个不关心政治的人是最有用的。

He was very useful as being apolitical because he then would be believable.

他的非政治性非常有用，因为这样他就会可信。

And if he were to come to the United States at the start to give the party message um, that would be the end of the use of Max Schmeling for Adolph Hitler

如果他一开始就来美国向党传达信息，那么阿道夫·希特勒对马克斯·施梅林的使用就会结束

In the summer of 1936, Hitler came to collect on his bargain with Schmeling.

1936 年夏天，希特勒前来兑现与施梅林的协议。

The Olympic Games were about to open in Berlin, and Hitler had big plans for them.

奥运会即将在柏林开幕，希特勒对此有宏伟的计划。

If all went well, they would become the proving ground for his notions of Aryan superiority and German national resurgence.

如果一切顺利，它们将成为他的雅利安优越论和德国民族复兴观念的试验场。

But the US Olympic Committee was threatening to spoil the party by boycotting the Games.

但美国奥委会威胁要抵制奥运会，从而破坏盛会。

Hitler looked to Germany's best-known international athlete for help.

希特勒向德国最著名的国际运动员寻求帮助。

They asked that Schmeling contact the committee to urge them to understand that there would be no difficulties politically for Jews or for blacks uh, if, if they participated in the Games.

他们要求施梅林联系委员会，敦促他们明白，如果犹太人或黑人参加奥运会，那么在政治上就不会有任何困难。

Quietly, Schmeling met with members of the U.S. Olympic Committee at the Commodore Hotel in New York.

施梅林在纽约康莫多酒店悄悄会见了美国奥委会成员。

Committee members produced clippings of dark tidings in Germany.

委员会成员制作了有关德国黑暗消息的剪报。

Schmeling assured them that the reports were false; that Hitler could be trusted.

施梅林向他们保证这些报道是假的。希特勒是可以信任的。

Days later, by a narrow vote, the USOC agreed that America would attend the games.

几天后，美国奥委会以微弱票数同意美国参加奥运会。

By the summer of 1936, Schmeling could no longer pretend to be living in two worlds.

到 1936 年夏天，施梅林再也无法假装生活在两个世界中了。

Through small expediencies, he had become a servant of the Nazi government.

通过一些小小的权宜之计，他成为了纳粹政府的仆人。

It needs to be stressed that a relationship like this is a process.

需要强调的是，这样的关系是一个过程。

In the beginning as the naive athlete you feel flattered, then you are used.

一开始，作为一个天真的运动员，你会感到受宠若惊，然后你就被利用了。

But this kind of thing doesn't happen in a week.

但这种事情不会在一周内发生。

It happens gradually over a period of several years.

它是在几年的时间内逐渐发生的。

Both sides form a mutual dependence.

双方形成相互依赖。

In the end, Hitler's Olympic dream was marred by a sprinter and long-jumper from the United States named Jesse Owens.

最终，希特勒的奥运梦想被来自美国的短跑和跳远运动员杰西·欧文斯毁掉了。

Owens' four gold medals were a salve to black America in the wake of Joe Louis' defeat two months earlier: here was the vindication so many had waited for.

两个月前乔·路易斯惨败后，欧文斯的四枚金牌对美国黑人来说是一剂安慰：这是许多人等待的平反。

Joe was happy for his friend, but Owens success only deepened the shame of his own defeat.

乔为他的朋友感到高兴，但欧文斯的成功只会加深他自己失败的耻辱。

As if to erase the memory, he fought furiously, winning a string of seven bouts in eight months.

仿佛要抹去记忆一样，他奋力拼搏，在八个月内连赢了七场比赛。

All he wanted was a rematch with the German.

他想要的只是与德国人重赛。

But Schmeling had other plans.

但施梅林还有其他计划。

As a reward for having beaten Louis, he inked a contract to fight the aging and vulnerable world champion Jimmy Braddock, the Cinderella Man.

作为击败路易斯的奖励，他签署了一份合同，与年迈且脆弱的世界冠军吉米·布拉多克（灰姑娘男人）对战。

The prospect of a Schmeling-Braddock bout panicked the Louis camp.

施梅林与布拉多克之间的较量让路易斯阵营惊慌失措。

Mike Jacobs thought that if Schmeling won the championship, he would go back to Germany and Hitler would actually take over the title and use it for his own purposes

迈克·雅各布斯认为，如果施梅林赢得了冠军，他就会回到德国，而希特勒实际上会接管冠军头衔并将其用于自己的目的

Mike Jacobs went to work, spreading rumors that the fight would be widely boycotted by Jewish fans -- Braddock wouldn't earn a dime.

迈克·雅各布斯去上班，散布谣言称这场比赛将受到犹太球迷的广泛抵制——布拉多克不会赚到一毛钱。

But if Braddock agreed to fight Louis instead, Jacobs promised he'd never have to work again.

但如果布拉多克同意与路易斯战斗，雅各布斯承诺他再也不用工作了。

He started offering more money, more money, more money.

他开始提供更多的钱，更多的钱，更多的钱。

Finally he came up with a deal.

最终他达成了一项协议。

He said, I'll give you not only the biggest guarantee, but you will have ten percent of the profits of Joe Louis's fights for the next ten years.

他说，我不仅给你最大的保证，而且你还将获得乔·路易斯未来十年的比赛利润的百分之十。

This was an offer Braddock couldn't afford to pass up.

这是布雷多克无法拒绝的提议。

He dropped his plans to fight Schmeling and signed on to face Louis in June, 1937 in Chicago.

他放弃了与施梅林对决的计划，并签约于 1937 年 6 月在芝加哥对阵路易斯。

For the first time in more than two decades a black man would fight for the heavyweight title.

二十多年来，黑人首次争夺重量级拳王头衔。

More than 60,000 fans, converged on Chicago's Comiskey Park to watch it.

超过 60,000 名球迷聚集在芝加哥的科米斯基公园观看比赛。

In the first round, Braddock knocked Louis down.

第一回合，布拉多克击倒了路易斯。

For an instant, it looked like a repeat of the Schmeling fight.

一瞬间，这看起来像是施梅林之战的重演。

But Louis quickly recovered and in the eight round knocked Braddock senseless.

但路易斯很快恢复过来，并在第八回合将布拉多克击昏。

The Cinderella Man had to be carried to his dressing room.

灰姑娘男人必须被带到他的更衣室。

Louis had scaled the summit of the boxing world, becoming the first black man since Jack Johnson to attain the heavyweight championship.

路易斯登上了拳击世界的顶峰，成为继杰克·约翰逊之后第一位获得重量级冠军的黑人。

But to Joe, the championship tasted sour.

但对于乔来说，冠军尝到了酸味。

Even in a moment of triumph - knocking out Jim Braddock - when people were congratulating Joe: 'You're champ, Joe', Joe said 'no I'm not the champ - I'm not the champ yet.

即使在胜利的时刻——击倒吉姆·布拉多克——当人们祝贺乔：“你是冠军，乔”时，乔说：“不，我不是冠军——我还不是冠军。”

I won't be.

我不会。

I won't be the champ until I lick Schmeling'.

在我舔施梅林之前我不会成为冠军。

Max Schmeling was furious over the way the world championship had been snatched from him.

马克斯·施梅林对世界冠军被夺走的方式感到愤怒。

He complained bitterly to the New York Athletic Commission, to no avail.

他向纽约体育委员会强烈投诉，但无济于事。

Now, Schmeling was as hungry for the rematch as Louis.

现在，施梅林和路易斯一样渴望重赛。

Terms for the fight were quickly agreed upon and the date was set for June, 1938 in Yankee Stadium.

比赛条款很快就达成了一致，日期定于 1938 年 6 月在洋基体育场举行。

From the start, the match was seen as much more than boxing, much more than sports.

从一开始，这场比赛就被视为不仅仅是拳击，不仅仅是体育运动。

It was going to pit whole nations, whole ideologies, against each other.

它将让整个国家、整个意识形态相互对抗。

This was 1938, Hitler's intentions were clear by then, Hitler's hatred of Jews was clear, Hitler's militarism and expansionism were clear and Schmeling is probably unfairly seen as an extension of Hitler.

那是1938年，那时希特勒的意图是明确的，希特勒对犹太人的仇恨是明确的，希特勒的军国主义和扩张主义是明确的，施梅林可能不公平地被视为希特勒的延伸。

He's seen as a Nazi.

他被视为纳粹分子。

Just three months before the fight, Hitler's army (had (could live with this) rolled into Austria without firing a shot.

就在战斗前三个月，希特勒的军队（可以忍受这一点）不费一枪一弹就开进了奥地利。

The so-called Anschluss helped to cement Americans' hatred of everything German.

所谓的德奥合并加深了美国人对德国一切事物的仇恨。

When Schmeling arrived in New York by steamer in May, he was met at the dock by hundreds of protesters, and mocking chants of "Heil Hitler".

当施梅林五月乘轮船抵达纽约时，数百名抗议者在码头迎接他，并高喊着“希特勒万岁”的嘲讽口号。

Many Americans channeled their antipathy for Max into affection for Joe.

许多美国人将对马克斯的反感转化为对乔的喜爱。

Confronted with a choice between a white Nazi and a black American, all but the most hardened racists backed Louis.

面对纳粹白人和美国黑人之间的选择，除了最顽固的种族主义者之外，所有人都支持路易斯。

Even President Roosevelt enlisted Louis in the propaganda against Nazism.

甚至罗斯福总统也让路易斯参与反对纳粹主义的宣传。

Squeezing Joe's arm he said: 'these are the muscles we need to defeat the Germans.' But Joe had little use for the hypocrisy of geopolitics.

他挤压乔的手臂说：“这些是我们击败德国人所需的肌肉。”但乔对地缘政治的虚伪没有什么用处。

I think Joe Louis understood that while he was being held up as the symbol of democracy, black people couldn't vote, black people did not have equal rights, the army was segregated.

我认为乔·路易斯明白，当他被捧为民主的象征时，黑人无法投票，黑人没有平等的权利，军队被隔离。

For Joe, the motivation was simpler.

对于乔来说，动机更简单。

Quoted in one New York newspaper, Louis said: "I am out for revenge.

纽约一家报纸援引路易斯的话说：“我是来复仇的。

All I ask of Schmeling is that he stand up and fight without quitting."

我对施梅林的唯一要求就是他站起来，不放弃地战斗。”

By the day of the fight, bookies had set the line at 2-1 in Louis' favor, but doubts lingered.

比赛当天，博彩公司将赔率定为 2-1，对路易斯有利，但疑虑依然存在。

Could Joe handle the pressure, had he found a defense for Schmeling's right hand?

乔能否应对压力，是否为施梅林的右手找到了防守？

Most expected a long, punishing fight.

大多数人都期待一场漫长而痛苦的战斗。

The evening of June 22nd was hot and sticky.

6月22日晚上，天气炎热、闷热。

More than 90,000 fans, white and black, streamed in to Yankee stadium, one of the largest crowds ever to pass through the turnstiles.

超过 90,000 名白人和黑人球迷涌入洋基体育场，这是有史以来通过十字转门的人数最多的体育场之一。

It is a sea of humanity.

这是一片人海。

It is something out of a tremendous political event.

这是一场重大政治事件的产物。

There is a rush, there's an excitement which it is almost impossible to describe today.

有一种匆忙、一种兴奋，这在今天几乎是无法描述的。

In a nation of 130 million, some 70 million would tune in to the fight on the radio that night, the biggest audience ever for a single program.

在一个拥有 1.3 亿人口的国家，约有 7000 万人收看当晚广播中的比赛，这是有史以来单个节目的最大观众人数。

The country was immobilized when this fight was on.

当这场战斗进行时，整个国家都陷入了僵局。

Dances were interrupted to broadcast the fight.

舞蹈被打断以转播这场战斗。

Wrestling matches, movies in movie theatres, the movie was stopped in the middle and, and the fight was broadcast over the loudspeaker.

摔跤比赛，电影院看电影，电影中途就停了，扩音器里播着打斗的场面。

I remember walking down the street and people were sitting on their front porches and they had their little radios ready it was real quiet, as though there was just something out here saying, we are about to experience an indescribable event in our lives ...

我记得走在街上，人们坐在前廊上，准备好了小收音机，周围非常安静，仿佛有什么东西在说，我们即将经历生命中难以形容的事件……

Everybody stopped, they went to whoever had a radio, and you listened.

每个人都停下来，他们去找有收音机的人，然后你听。

There wasn't anybody, there wasn't any street traffic, I think even the street cars stopped.

没有人，街上没有交通，我想连街车都停了。

Everybody stopped and listened to the fight.

大家都停下来听打斗声。

It was like that moment

就像那一刻

It was 3 am in Germany when Nazi broadcaster Arno Helmis finally took the microphone.

德国凌晨 3 点，纳粹广播员阿尔诺·赫尔米斯 (Arno Helmis) 终于拿起了麦克风。

In Austria, the young Jewish boy Fritz Mandelbaum stayed up late to listen with his father.

在奥地利，年轻的犹太男孩弗里茨·曼德尔鲍姆熬夜听父亲讲话。

The fight was ballyhooed in Germany as the fight of the century...: there was the Negro, an inferior race, and the man, Joe Louis, who represented the Negro -- all brawn and animal brutality vs. German noble strength...it is amazing to me in retrospect how much the Nazis really gambled on a victory.

这场战斗在德国被大肆宣传为世纪之战……：有黑人，一个劣等种族，而代表黑人的乔·路易斯——所有的肌肉和动物的残忍与德国高贵的力量的对抗……回想起来，纳粹对胜利真的下了多大的赌注，这让我感到惊讶。

The gamble was if you hype it that much, what if you lose?

赌博是，如果你炒作得那么厉害，万一输了怎么办？

Schmeling made his way to the ring under a bombardment of banana peels, cigarette packs, and spit.

施梅林在香蕉皮、香烟盒和口水的轰炸下走向了擂台。

He was pallid.

他脸色苍白。

There was something about him, you could smell it you know.

他身上有某种东西，你可以闻到它，你知道。

And you know it's scary, you, you can get killed here as they say.

你知道这很可怕，正如他们所说，你可能会在这里被杀。

The roar that began.

轰鸣声开始了。

Just an unimaginable, constant roar.

只是一种难以想象的、持续不断的咆哮。

You, you couldn't hear the subway coming out, uh, nothing.

你，你听不到地铁出来的声音，呃，什么也没有。

The roar up into that Bronx night.

轰鸣声响彻布朗克斯的夜晚。

if you had any imagination you, you felt the whole country watching.

如果你有一点想象力，你就会感觉到整个国家都在注视着你。

Almost in the first thirty seconds you could see the way it was going to go.

几乎在最初的三十秒里你就可以看到事情的发展方向。

You see his desire just boring in on the guy -- it's spider and the fly ain't got a chance

你看他的欲望就在那个家伙身上——那是蜘蛛，苍蝇没有机会

He's landed more blows in this one round, than he landed in five rounds of the other fight.

他在这一轮比赛中的击打次数比另一场比赛的五轮比赛中击中的次数还要多。

He pressed, he drove Schmeling back, he rained punches.

他施压，他把施梅林击退，他拳打脚踢。

Schmeling tried to defend, he tried to counter, he tried to get out of the way.

施梅林试图防守，他试图反击，他试图避开。

Back against the ropes but not too close to the ropes...

背靠绳索，但不要太靠近绳索......

And Louis misses...

而路易斯想念...

Again a right to the body and to the head...

再次对身体和头部的权利......

He's held to his feet.

他被抓住了。

At just over a minute into the first round, Louis struck Schmeling with a ferocious blow to his side.

第一轮比赛刚开始一分多钟，路易斯就对施梅林的侧面进行了猛烈的一击。

And Schmeling emitted a, a scream.

施梅林发出一声尖叫。

I think everybody went you know sort of like this.

我想你认识的每个人都经历过这样的事情。

Uh, they had never heard a fighter scream in a high pitched voice in agony.

呃，他们从来没有听过战士发出痛苦的高声尖叫。

Screams like a woman screams.

尖叫声像女人的尖叫声。

The scream just went all through the stadium.

尖叫声响彻整个体育场。

In a meaningless gesture, Schmeling's corner threw in the towel.

施梅林的角以一种毫无意义的姿态认输了。

Arthur Donovan threw it back, where it hung on the ropes as "limp as the German himself", one writer put it.

亚瑟·多诺万把它扔了回去，一位作家说，它挂在绳子上，“像德国人一样软弱无力”。

The count is five, six, seven, eight, the men are in the ring.

数到五、六、七、八，男人们都在擂台上。

The fight is over.

战斗结束了。

Max Schmeling is beaten in one round!

马克斯施梅林一轮被击败！

in less than one round!

在不到一轮的时间内！

It was "two minutes and four seconds of murder", one writer marveled, the second shortest heavyweight title fight in history.

一位作家惊叹道，这是“两分零四秒的谋杀”，这是历史上第二短的重量级冠军争夺战。

People are hugging each other and black and white embracing.

人们互相拥抱，黑白拥抱。

Women and men, and strangers.

女人和男人，还有陌生人。

And the scenes were wild jubilation and tears, people crying.

场面充满了疯狂的欢呼和泪水，人们哭泣。

It was tremendous.

这是巨大的。

It was almost as though we had defeated the Nazis there and then.

就好像我们当时就打败了纳粹一样。

In Germany, millions had listened to the fight in growing disbelief.

在德国，数百万人听了这场战斗，越来越难以置信。

Eight, nine, ten.

八、九、十。

The fight is over, the fight is over.

战斗结束了，战斗结束了。

Schmeling is KO'd, Schmeling is on the ground, he can't get up ...

施梅林被KO了，施梅林倒在地上，他站不起来……

and we looked at each other.

我们面面相觑。

This cannot be true!

这不可能是真的！

This cannot be!

这不可能！

The first round had only been half over.

第一轮比赛才刚刚结束一半。

To suddenly hear on the air that uh, the announcer very confident saying, "Maxi tu tas und Maxi tu tas, Maxi!'' It was a sense of jubilation that we had, my father and I, and for the first time there was an inkling that Hitler might somehow be stopped.

突然在广播中听到，呃，播音员非常自信地说：“Maxi tu tas und Maxi tu tas，Maxi！”我们，我父亲和我，有一种欢呼的感觉，第一次有一种迹象表明希特勒可能会被阻止。

In Harlem, news of the victory sent 100,000 people into the streets: "This is their night," the Police Commissioner said, and closed off 30 blocks for the celebration.

在哈莱姆区，胜利的消息让 10 万人走上街头：“这是他们的夜晚，”警察局长说，并封锁了 30 个街区来庆祝。

I took the subway down to Harlem.

我乘地铁去哈莱姆区。

Place was going wild.

这个地方变得疯狂。

Little kids you know they're dancing and old, elderly people hobbling on canes you know they, they were looking, oh boy, good, good you know.

小孩子，你知道他们在跳舞，老人、老人拄着拐杖，你知道他们，他们看着，哦，天哪，好，好，你知道。

It, it's the most wonderful thing that ever happened.

这是有史以来发生过的最美妙的事情。

Every saloon in Harlem was packed to the rafters.

哈莱姆区的每个酒吧都挤满了人。

People who'd never had a sip of beer in their lives, were closing down the town.

那些一生中从未喝过啤酒的人们正在封锁这座城镇。

Everyone was so elated by Louis winning and everything.

每个人都对路易斯的胜利和一切感到非常高兴。

I got just as high, everything was spinning around, thought I was in a fight.

我变得同样兴奋，一切都在旋转，以为我在打架。

I went back to the Bathroom man, I'm walking on back there, and walked right dead into the lady's room.

我回到浴室服务员那里，继续往前走，径直走进了女士的房间。

The celebration wasn't confined to black America alone.

庆祝活动不仅仅局限于美国黑人。

For the first time, blacks and whites, even in the deep South, had rooted with all their hearts for the same guy.

这是第一次，黑人和白人，即使是在南方腹地，也全心全意地支持同一个人。

Right after Joe Louis' victory, we got to work ahead of time.

乔·路易斯获胜后，我们就提前开始工作。

And I will say this for this fellow where I worked, he says, well it looks like your man won, I said he sure did didn't he.

我要对我工作过的这个人说这句话，他说，看来你的人赢了，我说他确实赢了，不是吗？

He says: maybe that'll teach Hitler a lesson.

他说：也许这会给希特勒一个教训。

Joe had shattered the mask of the "Good Negro" once and for all.

乔一劳永逸地粉碎了“好黑人”的面具。

All Americans loved him -- not because he was docile and unassuming -- but for the opposite reason: when they were at their weakest, he had reminded them of their strength.

所有美国人都爱他——不是因为他温顺、谦逊——而是因为相反的原因：在他们最软弱的时候，他提醒了他们自己的力量。

After the fight, Schemling had been helped to his dressing room.

比赛结束后，谢姆林被扶到了更衣室。

When Schmeling finally recovered enough to return to his native soil, there was no berth of honor on the Hindenburg, no Luftwaffe escorts, or personal meetings with Hitler.

当施梅林终于康复并返回祖国时，兴登堡号上没有荣誉泊位，没有德国空军护航，也没有与希特勒的私人会面。

They dropped him like a hot potato.

他们把他当作烫手山芋一样丢掉了。

He wasn't uh, not even consoled or poor Max and so, no, no. He wa...he, he...they had lost every interest in him.

他不是，呃，甚至没有得到安慰或可怜的麦克斯，所以，不，不。他哇……呃，他……他们对他失去了一切兴趣。

Schmeling's career was all but over.

施梅林的职业生涯几乎结束了。

He fought a few more times but never again in America.

他又打了几次仗，但再也没有在美国打过仗。

Freed from his entanglements with the Nazi government, Schmeling felt able to take risks he'd never been willing to take before.

从与纳粹政府的纠葛中解脱出来后，施梅林感觉自己能够承担以前从未愿意承担的风险。

In November, during the national pogrom called Kristallnacht, he sheltered two small Jewish boys, the sons of an old friend, hiding them in his hotel room while gangs roamed outside.

11 月，在名为“水晶之夜”的全国大屠杀期间，他庇护了两个犹太小男孩，他们是一位老朋友的儿子，将他们藏在自己的酒店房间里，而帮派则在外面游荡。

That man, known all over the world did this for us is an unbelievable thing.

那个举世闻名的男人为我们做到了这一点，这是一件令人难以置信的事情。

This man has done for us what god didn't do.

这个人为我们做了上帝没有做的事情。

You know how can you explain it better?

你知道如何更好地解释它吗？

During the war, Schmeling was conscripted into the German army.

战争期间，施梅林应征入伍。

After it was over he was cleared by British authorities of any complicity in Nazi crimes.

事件结束后，英国当局澄清他没有参与纳粹罪行。

Schmeling rebuilt his life one more time - the Nazi idol earned a fortune as a bottler for the Coca Cola company in Germany.

施梅林再次重建了他的生活——这位纳粹偶像作为德国可口可乐公司的装瓶商赚了一大笔钱。

He adapted in the Weimar period, he adapted in the Third Reich, and he adapted in 1945 and on.

他在魏玛时期进行了改编，在第三帝国时期进行了改编，在1945年及以后进行了改编。

I mean he, he rose again from the ashes.

我是说他，他从灰烬中复活了。

Joe Louis went on to become the greatest heavyweight champion in history, defending his title 24 more times over the course of 12 years.

乔·路易斯后来成为历史上最伟大的重量级拳王，在 12 年内 24 次卫冕。

His opponents were so overmatched they earned the title "Bum of the Month Club."

他的对手是如此强大，以至于赢得了“本月最佳流浪汉俱乐部”的称号。

Joe served his country honorably during World War II.

乔在第二次世界大战期间光荣地为国家服务。

His country didn't return the favor: relegating him to a segregated unit and hounding him for years after for back taxes on money he had donated to the Army and Navy Relief Fund.

他的国家没有回报他：将他降级到一个隔离单位，并在他向陆军和海军救济基金捐款的欠税之后追捕他多年。

To pay his debt, he fought on too long, his career finally ended for good in 1951 by a young Rocky Marciano, who wept in his dressing room after the fight.

为了偿还债务，他战斗了太久，他的职业生涯最终在1951年被年轻的洛基·马西亚诺永远结束，他在比赛结束后在更衣室里哭泣。

As the years went on, Louis' stature in black America also suffered.

随着时间的推移，路易斯在美国黑人中的地位也受到了影响。

New, more assertive black leaders were ashamed of what they regarded as Joe's accommodationism and were eager to dismiss him.

新的、更加自信的黑人领导人对乔的迁就主义感到羞耻，并急于解雇他。

I wish he'd been a vocal leader.

我希望他是一位声音领袖。

But he did enough for me, by stimulating hope and causing me as a boy to fantasize victories.

但他为我做了足够多的事，激发了希望，让我小时候幻想着胜利。

And that despite everything, nobody is going to stop you from winning if you really set your mind to it.

不管怎样，如果你真的下定决心，没有人会阻止你获胜。

That was enough, I didn't need anything else from Joe Louis.

这就足够了，我不需要乔·路易斯提供任何其他东西。

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When Joe Louis knocked out Max Schmeling he opened a door of history for every great black athlete in the coming generations who could be themselves, who did not have to mask their feelings, who did not have to hide their emotions, did not have to say yes sir and no sir to reporters.

当乔·路易斯击倒马克斯·施梅林时，他为未来几代每一位伟大的黑人运动员打开了一扇历史之门，他们可以做自己，不必掩饰自己的感情，不必隐藏自己的情绪，不必对记者说“是，先生”和“不，先生”。

Halfway through the broadcast of "This is Your Life" in 1960, there was a surprise guest.

1960年的《这就是你的生活》播出到一半，出现了一位惊喜嘉宾。

It had been more than twenty years since the two fighters had seen each other in the chaos of Yankee Stadium, but it would mark another stage in their relationship.

距离这两位拳手在洋基体育场的混乱中见面已经过去了二十多年，但这将标志着他们关系的另一个阶段。

They would meet a dozen more times, always with a great show of warmth.

他们又见面了十几次，每次都表现得非常热情。

Schmeling assisted Louis with money, and when Joe died in 1981 Max helped pay for the funeral.

施梅林为路易斯提供了金钱援助，1981 年乔去世后，马克斯帮助支付了葬礼费用。

Much of the world came to believe Hitler's favorite boxer and America's great black hope had finally come to love each other.

世界上许多人开始相信希特勒最喜欢的拳击手和美国伟大的黑人希望终于相爱了。

We all love happy endings, and it's become convenient in a way to say that Joe Louis and Max Schmeling ended up as great friends.

我们都喜欢幸福的结局，从某种意义上说，乔·路易斯和马克斯·施梅林最终成为了好朋友，这已经变得很方便了。

I don't think they were really great friends.

我不认为他们是真正的好朋友。

I think they were barely friends, they barely knew one another.

我认为他们几乎不是朋友，他们几乎不认识彼此。

They spent only forty minutes together in the ring.

他们在擂台上只呆了四十分钟。

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but history tied these two men together...

但历史将这两个人联系在一起......

History brought Joe Louis and Max Schmeling together and in history they'll always be together...

历史让乔·路易斯和马克斯·施梅林走到了一起，在历史上他们将永远在一起……