Seabiscuit
Narrator: : On New Year’s Eve 1938, columnist Walter Winchell published his annual list of the top ten newsmakers.
旁白：1938 年除夕夜，专栏作家沃尔特·温切尔 (Walter Winchell) 公布了他的年度十大新闻人物名单。
Nine men were named, including Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler.
九名男子被点名，包括富兰克林·德拉诺·罗斯福、内维尔·张伯伦和阿道夫·希特勒。
The tenth spot went to a horse.
第十名是一匹马。
Gelo Hall, Jockey Agent: : He was a hero.
Gelo Hall，赛马经纪人：：他是一位英雄。
This horse had to come from the bottom of the heap.
这匹马一定是来自底层的。
To the top.
到顶部。
Newsreel (archival): : They’re head and head.
新闻片（档案）：：他们是头头。
It’s horse against horse.
这是马对马。
Seabiscuit leads by a length…
Seabiscuit 领先一段距离……
Gelo Hall, Jockey Agent: : And he fought his way up the ladder.
杰洛·霍尔（Gelo Hall），赛马经纪人：：他一路奋战，登上了阶梯。
And I think this was the thing that people liked about him.
我认为这就是人们喜欢他的地方。
And I think that’s the way America likes sometimes to crown their champions.
我认为这就是美国有时喜欢加冕冠军的方式。
Newsreel (archival): : Ladies and Gentleman, NBC has turned over its nationwide facilities for a paid tribute to Seabiscuit, the Wonderhorse.
新闻片（档案）：女士们，先生们，NBC 已移交其全国设施，以向神奇马“Seabiscuit”致敬。
Gene Smith, Writer: : Maybe the fact that he had the hard scrabble beginning…maybe the fact that he wasn’t good-looking—he was blocky, he was coarse, crude-looking.
吉恩·史密斯（Gene Smith），作家：：也许是因为他一开始就拼字游戏很困难……也许是因为他长得不好看——他很块头，他很粗鲁，看起来很粗糙。
Maybe the fact that he had a kind of busted down jockey…somehow it all came together to create a star.
也许是因为他有一个失败的骑师……不知何故，这一切聚集在一起创造了一颗明星。
Laura Hillenbrand, Author: : He came along in the worst years of the Depression.
劳拉·希伦布兰德 (Laura Hillenbrand)，作者：：他出生在大萧条最糟糕的时期。
Americans were down and out.
美国人穷困潦倒。
They were poor, they were losing their jobs and their houses and they, they wanted a hero that came from the wrong side of the tracks, that was beat up like they were.
他们很穷，他们失去了工作和房子，他们想要一个来自错误方向的英雄，像他们一样被殴打。
And for a brief moment in America, a little brown racehorse wasn’t just a little brown racehorse.
在美国，有一段时间，一匹小棕色赛马不仅仅是一匹小棕色赛马。
He was the proxy for a nation.
他是一个国家的代理人。
Film Clip from The Story of Seabiscuit , Trainer (archival): : Sure he’s small in the body, but big in the heart.
《海饼干的故事》电影片段，训练师（档案）：：当然，他身体虽小，但内心却很大。
Newsreel (archival): : Out of the musical Hall of Fame, “The Big Ten,” a tune that has captured the fancy of the nation…
新闻片（档案）：：音乐剧名人堂中的“十大”，这首曲子吸引了全国的目光……
Narrator: : On a mild summer afternoon in 1936, a three-year-old thoroughbred named Seabiscuit was saddled up for a cheap stakes race at Boston’s Suffolk Downs.
旁白：1936 年一个温和的夏日午后，一匹名叫 Seabiscuit 的三岁纯种马在波士顿萨福克唐斯 (Suffolk Downs) 准备参加一场廉价的比赛。
The purse was a paltry $700.
钱包只有区区700美元。
The colt was a direct descendant of the legendary Man o’ War—but you’d never have known it to look at him.
这匹小马是传奇战舰战舰的直系后裔，但你永远不会从它的外表上看出它的存在。
Dung-colored, stocky, and low-slung, with knobby, asymmetrical knees that didn’t quite straighten all the way, he was a masterpiece of faulty construction.
他的肤色呈粪色，粗壮，腰部低矮，膝盖多节且不对称，根本没有完全伸直，他是一个结构缺陷的杰作。
He’d been raced an astonishing thirty-five times as a two-year-old, more than triple the average for a horse his age — and he’d lost nearly every time.
两岁的时候，他已经参加了惊人的三十五次比赛，是同龄马平均水平的三倍多——而且他几乎每次都输了。
But now, as he ambled past the grandstand, he caught the eye of one of the spectators, a veteran horse trainer named Tom Smith.
但现在，当他缓步走过看台时，他引起了一位观众的注意，他是一位名叫汤姆·史密斯的资深驯马师。
Laura Hillenbrand, Author: : Smith nodded at the horse and the horse nodded back at him, and (Smith) later said it was kind of as if the horse was paying an honor to notice him, and the pony boy tugged the horse on his way, and Smith said, “I’ll see you again.”
劳拉·希伦布兰德（Laura Hillenbrand），作者：史密斯向马点点头，马也向他点点头，（史密斯）后来说，这有点像马很荣幸注意到他，小马男孩拉着马走，史密斯说，“我会再次见到你。”
Narrator: : Despite his appalling record, Smith saw something special in the colt.
旁白：：尽管史密斯的战绩令人震惊，但他在这匹小马身上看到了一些特别的东西。
“He had a look,” the trainer said later, “of true confidence.”
“他看上去充满了真正的自信，”教练后来说。
Smith’s employer, an ex-bicycle repairman turned automotive magnate named Charles Howard, saw it too.
史密斯的雇主查尔斯·霍华德（Charles Howard）曾是自行车修理工，后来成为汽车巨头，他也看到了这一点。
A few weeks later, he bought Seabiscuit for the bargain-basement price of $8,000, and sent him west with Smith, to the Detroit Fairgrounds racetrack to train.
几周后，他以 8,000 美元的低价买下了 Seabiscuit，并派他和史密斯一起向西前往底特律博览会场赛马场训练。
The stablehands in the Howard barn were skeptical.
霍华德谷仓的马夫们对此表示怀疑。
None of them had ever seen such an equine catastrophe.
他们中没有人见过这样的马灾难。
The colt paced in his stall, broke into a lather at the sight of a saddle, and lunged at anyone who dared to go near him.
小马驹在马厩里踱来踱去，一看到马鞍就起泡沫，并向任何敢于靠近它的人猛扑过去。
When he ran, his left foreleg jabbed out wildly, as if he were swatting flies.
当他奔跑时，他的左前腿疯狂地伸出，就像在拍苍蝇一样。
Horsemen called it “an eggbeater gait” — and most considered it a sign of lameness.
骑手称其为“打蛋步态”——大多数人认为这是跛行的表现。
But Tom Smith knew what he was doing.
但汤姆·史密斯知道他在做什么。
A man so laconic that a reporter once suspected he’d removed his tongue, Smith had little patience for people or their opinions.
史密斯的言辞如此简洁，以至于有记者一度怀疑他已经把舌头拔掉了，他对人们或他们的观点缺乏耐心。
[But] horses he understood.
[但是]他了解马。
Farrell Jones, Former Jockey: : I think all he ever thought about was a horse.
法雷尔·琼斯（Farrell Jones），前骑师：：我认为他脑子里只想的只是一匹马。
Silent Tom is what they called him.
人们称他为“沉默的汤姆”。
Phuh — he’d do that — phuh, phuh.
噗——他会这么做的——噗，噗。
But I don’t know that he was aware he’d do it; I don’t think that…
但我不知道他是否知道他会这么做；他知道自己会这么做。我不认为……
no, he’d do that.
不，他会那样做的。
I’d see him — phuh, phuh — do that quite a bit.
我会看到他——噗，噗——经常这样做。
He was a great horse trainer.
他是一位出色的驯马师。
He was a dedicated guy to what he did and that was it.
他是一个专注于他所做的事情的人，仅此而已。
Narrator: : Smith made a careful study of Seabiscuit, then devised a regimen targeted to the colt’s specific problems.
旁白：史密斯仔细研究了“Seabiscuit”，然后针对小马的具体问题设计了一个治疗方案。
For nerves, an assortment of soothing animal companions — a spotted dog with enormous platter-like ears, and an amiable yellow cow-pony named Pumpkin.
为了缓解紧张情绪，可以选择各种舒缓的动物伙伴——一只长着大盘子状耳朵的斑点狗，还有一匹名叫南瓜的可爱的黄色小马。
For leg soreness: daily applications of a homemade liniment.
对于腿部酸痛：每天使用自制搽剂。
And finally, a diet consisting of a high-quality, calcium-rich strain of timothy hay which had to be special-ordered from Northern California.
最后，一种由高品质、富含钙的蒂莫西干草组成的饮食，必须从北加州特别订购。
The stablehands were instructed to give Seabiscuit maximum latitude — and, most importantly, to never, ever disturb him while he was sleeping.
马厩们被指示给予海饼干最大的自由度——最重要的是，永远不要在他睡觉时打扰他。
Laura Hillenbrand, Author: : Most horses can only sleep on the ground for about five minutes at a time because their bodies are so enormous, and they’re configured in such a way that breathing becomes difficult.
劳拉·希伦布兰德 (Laura Hillenbrand)，作者： 大多数马一次只能在地上睡大约五分钟，因为它们的身体太大，而且它们的构造方式使呼吸变得困难。
Seabiscuit was the exception.
海饼干是个例外。
He would sleep and sleep and sleep.
他会睡觉、睡觉、睡觉。
Narrator: : Gradually, Seabiscuit relaxed and rounded into form — but he still didn’t show much interest in running.
旁白：：渐渐地，海饼干放松了，恢复了状态——但他对跑步仍然没有表现出太大的兴趣。
Smith wondered where he would ever find a jockey sensitive enough to handle him.
史密斯想知道他在哪里可以找到一个足够敏感的骑师来对付他。
As it happened, the jockey found him.
碰巧的是，骑师找到了他。
His name was John Pollard — but thanks to a shock of flame-colored hair, most people called him “Red.”
他的名字叫约翰·波拉德，但由于一头火红色的头发，大多数人都称他为“红”。
Norah Christianson, Red Pollard’s Daughter: : He was very, very charming.
诺拉·克里斯蒂安森，雷德·波拉德的女儿：：他非常非常迷人。
He had a face, kind of a leprechaun-ish face and he was not short.
他有一张脸，有点像小妖精的脸，而且个子不矮。
He was about 5’6”.
他身高约 5 英尺 6 英寸。
And that is tall for a jockey…
对于骑师来说这太高了……
very thin, sinewy.
非常瘦，肌肉发达。
Like a dancer.
就像一个舞者。
He quoted Shakespeare at great length and he carried around several books of poems everywhere he went.
他大量引用了莎士比亚的名言，并且无论走到哪里都随身携带几本诗集。
I think he was capable of being a great many things.
我认为他有能力做很多事情。
My father went to the fourth grade and a teacher told him that he wouldn’t amount to anything.
我父亲上四年级，老师告诉他，他不会有什么作为。
And I think that, uh, that rode him all his life.
我认为，呃，这贯穿了他的一生。
Narrator: : One of seven children born to a bankrupt brick manufacturer, Pollard had left home at fifteen in the care of a guardian — who then promptly abandoned him at a makeshift racecourse in Butte, Montana.
旁白：波拉德是一家破产砖厂所生的七个孩子之一，他十五岁就离家出走，由一位监护人照顾，然后监护人立即把他遗弃在蒙大拿州巴特的一个临时赛马场。
He’d spent the next dozen years kicking around the country’s lowliest tracks, talking his way onto as many mounts as he could and working as a prizefighter to make ends meet.
在接下来的十几年里，他一直在全国最低的赛道上奔跑，通过说服尽可能多地登上坐骑，并以职业拳击手的身份维持生计。
Pollard drifted onto the Detroit Fairgrounds one afternoon in July 1936, with twenty-seven cents and a few sugar cubes in one pocket, and in the other, a half-pint of a cheap brandy he called “bow-wow wine.”
1936 年 7 月的一个下午，波拉德漂流到底特律展览会场，一个口袋里装着 27 美分和几块方糖，另一个口袋里装着半品脱廉价白兰地，他称之为“哇哇酒”。
Laura Hillenbrand, Author: : Red Pollard had been at a racetrack where his last mount had simply refused to finish his race.
劳拉·希伦布兰德（Laura Hillenbrand），作者：：雷德·波拉德（Red Pollard）曾在赛马场，他的最后一匹坐骑根本无法完成比赛。
He had a six percent winning average, which is horrendous for a jockey.
他的平均胜率是百分之六，这对于骑师来说是可怕的。
He would have taken any mount that day, and he went to every single barn on the track.
那天他愿意骑任何坐骑，他走遍了赛道上的每一个马厩。
No one would hire him, and he went into the last barn, and Tom Smith gestures to the stall, says, “I’ve got a horse here.”
没有人愿意雇用他，他走进最后一个谷仓，汤姆·史密斯指着马厩说：“我这里有一匹马。”
Norah Christianson, Red Pollard’s Daughter: : When they first met, he talked to the horse and the horse responded positively, which this horse did not usually do, and Tom Smith being a very astute judge of man and beast, he knew there was something there…
诺拉·克里斯蒂安森，红波拉德的女儿：：当他们第一次见面时，他与马交谈，马做出了积极的回应，而这匹马通常不会这样做，而汤姆·史密斯是一个非常精明的人与兽的判断者，他知道那里有一些东西......
some affinity.
有一定的亲和力。
A connection.
一个连接。
Laura Hillenbrand, Author: : Pollard put his hand in his pocket, pulled out a sugar cube and held it out to the horse.
劳拉·希伦布兰德 (Laura Hillenbrand)，作者：波拉德把手伸进口袋，掏出一块方糖递给马。
And the black muzzle touched the jockey’s shoulder.
黑色的枪口碰到了骑师的肩膀。
It was the first affectionate thing Seabiscuit had done to anybody and Tom Smith thought “this is my man.”
这是海饼干对任何人所做的第一件深情的事，汤姆·史密斯认为“这是我的男人。”
Red Pollard had spent his career at bad racetracks on bad horses.
雷德·波拉德的职业生涯是在糟糕的赛马场骑着糟糕的马度过的。
The worst animals on the circuit.
赛道上最糟糕的动物。
He understood troubled horses.
他理解陷入困境的马。
He was not a guy you would put on a great racehorse, but this is the one he fit.
他不是那种适合配上一匹伟大赛马的人，但这就是他适合的人。
So, he wasn’t a great jockey, but the moments he was on Seabiscuit, he was great.
所以，他不是一个伟大的骑师，但当他在Seabiscuit上的那一刻，他就很棒了。
Narrator: : Separately, they were nothing more than a failing jockey and a broken-down horse.
旁白：：分开来看，他们只不过是一个失败的骑师和一匹衰弱的马。
Together, they would become hard luck heroes for a troubled nation.
他们一起成为这个陷入困境的国家的倒霉英雄。
In the lean days of the Depression, Thoroughbred racing was fast becoming America’s most popular sport.
在大萧条的经济困难时期，纯种马赛车迅速成为美国最受欢迎的运动。
Bans on wagering, passed at the turn of the century, had mostly been lifted by the late 1920s — and revenue-hungry states across the country had rushed to re-legalize racing.
世纪之交通过的赌博禁令在 20 年代末大部分已被取消，全国各地渴望收入的州都急于将赛马重新合法化。
Gene Smith, Writer: : The opportunities for gambling in the 1930s were very limited.
作家吉恩·史密斯 (Gene Smith)： 20 世纪 30 年代，赌博的机会非常有限。
There were no state lotteries.
没有国家彩票。
Football was a very minor sport.
足球是一项非常小的运动。
You wanted to bet on a prize fight, you had to go find a bookie or something.
你想在一场职业拳击比赛上下注，你必须去找博彩公司之类的。
There were casinos in Nevada, but how many people go to Nevada, hence the only place you could really bet was at a racetrack.
内华达州有赌场，但有多少人去内华达州，因此唯一真正可以投注的地方就是赛马场。
Jack Whitaker, Sportscaster: : I expect it was a release the dream of making a lot of money, which was in everybody’s head in those days.
体育播音员杰克·惠特克（Jack Whitaker）：我认为这是释放了当时每个人脑海中赚大钱的梦想。
And I would think that it was an escape for them like the movies were, radio was escape, because it was kind of a brutal time people went to the races six days a week in those days — twenty thousand, forty thousand people.
我认为这对他们来说是一种逃避，就像电影一样，广播也是一种逃避，因为那时候人们每周六天去参加比赛，那是一段残酷的时光——两万、四万人。
Narrator: : By the fall of 1936, Tom Smith still didn’t know if his gamble on Seabiscuit would ever pay off.
旁白：：到 1936 年秋天，汤姆·史密斯 (Tom Smith) 仍然不知道他在 Seabiscuit 上的赌博是否会获得回报。
One afternoon, he put an exercise rider on the colt’s back, pulled out his stopwatch, and shouted to turn Seabiscuit loose.
一天下午，他在小马背上放了一名健身骑手，拿出秒表，大喊要松开“海饼干”。
The horse came rolling down the backstretch, his body flattening out with each stride, his speed building.
马从后跑道上滚下来，每跨一步，他的身体就会变平，速度也越来越快。
By the time he blew by Smith, he was covering more than fifty feet a second — and still picking up steam .
当他飞过史密斯时，他的飞行速度已经超过了五十英尺，而且仍在加速。
Laura Hillenbrand, Author: : He kept thinking the horse couldn’t possibly be going this fast, and the horse went under the wire, and he clicked the stopwatch, and the horse had crushed the track record, and this was in a workout.
劳拉·希伦布兰德（Laura Hillenbrand），作者：：他一直认为这匹马不可能跑得这么快，结果这匹马冲进了铁丝网，他按下秒表，这匹马打破了纪录，这是在训练中。
Horses rarely run as fast in workouts as they do in real races, and Smith knew what he had on his hands and he had an opportunity here to conquer the racing world and to make history, and he knew he had to do everything right with this one.
马匹在训练中很少能像在真正的比赛中跑得那么快，史密斯知道他手上有什么，他有机会在这里征服赛马世界并创造历史，他知道他必须把这件事做好。
Narrator: : The first event on Seabiscuit’s schedule was the annual Governor’s Handicap in Detroit — a small-time event with a big local following.
旁白：Seabiscuit 日程上的第一项活动是底特律一年一度的州长让分赛——这是一项规模不大的活动，但在当地却拥有大量追随者。
Among the 28,000 spectators in the stands that afternoon were Charles Howard and his wife Marcela, who’d driven out from California to see what their new horse and his jockey could do.
那天下午，看台上有 28,000 名观众，其中包括查尔斯·霍华德 (Charles Howard) 和他的妻子马塞拉 (Marcela)，他们从加利福尼亚开车过来，想看看他们的新马和他的骑师能做什么。
At 5:39 pm, the starter bell rang.
下午5点39分，发令铃响了。
One minute and fifty seconds later, with the crowd on its feet, Seabiscuit crossed the wire first by a nose.
一分五十秒后，随着人群起立，“海饼干”以鼻子率先冲过铁丝网。
In the time it takes to fry an egg, he’d recouped over half of his purchase price.
煎一个鸡蛋的时间，他就收回了一半以上的货款。
“This Seabiscuit…
“这个海饼干……
runs like he means it,” sportswriter Jolly Roger exclaimed, “…
体育记者乔利·罗杰 (Jolly Roger) 惊呼道：“他的意思就是跑起来，……
with fire, slash and zam.”
用火、砍伐和扎姆。”
Over the next twelve weeks, as Seabiscuit thundered to the winner’s circle again and again—some insiders were touting him as “a dangerous contender” for the Santa Anita Handicap, the signature event at California’s brand new racetrack.
在接下来的十二周里，随着海饼干一次又一次地冲进冠军圈，一些业内人士将他吹捧为圣塔安妮塔障碍赛的“危险竞争者”，这是加州全新赛道的标志性赛事。
Newsreel (archival): : The $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap brings out California’s biggest racing crowd.
新闻片（档案）：： 100,000 美元的圣塔安妮塔盘口吸引了加州最大的赛车人群。
Movie stars on every hand for the world’s richest race.
电影明星们齐聚一堂，争夺世界上最富有的比赛。
Laura Hillenbrand, Author: : It was probably the richest sporting event in the world.
劳拉·希伦布兰德 (Laura Hillenbrand)，作者：：这可能是世界上奖金最丰厚的体育赛事。
One hundred thousand dollars — all to the winner.
十万美元——全部归获胜者所有。
A massive amount of money.
大量资金。
This is the time when the average American is earning less than $500 a year.
这是美国人平均年收入不足 500 美元的时期。
Narrator: : On the afternoon of February 27th, 1937, a record crowd of sixty thousand spectators turned out for the third annual Santa Anita Handicap — better known as “the hundred-grander.”
旁白：1937 年 2 月 27 日下午，第三届年度圣塔安妮塔盘口赛 — — 更广为人知的名称是“百人赛” — 现场观众人数达到了创纪录的 6 万人。
Despite his recent victories, most professional odds makers still considered Seabiscuit a long shot.
尽管 Seabiscuit 最近取得了胜利，但大多数专业赔率制定者仍然认为 Seabiscuit 的胜算不大。
The smart money was on Rosemont — the lightning-fast five-year-old that had recently trounced 1935’s Triple Crown winner.
明智的投资选择是“罗斯蒙特”——这匹速度快如闪电的五岁赛马最近击败了 1935 年的三冠王。
Nearly $400,000 was riding on the contest — an all-time betting high for western racing.
这场比赛的赌注接近 40 万美元——这是西部赛马历史上的最高赌注。
Narrator: : The entire field broke at once, in a mad dash for position.
旁白：：整个场地立刻溃散，疯狂地冲向阵地。
Newsreel (archival): : Here on the outside comes Rosemont in a good position…
新闻影片（档案）：：从外部来看，罗斯蒙特处于有利位置……
Narrator: : For the next half-mile, Pollard patiently threaded Seabiscuit through the pack, before finally tucking in behind the front-runner.
旁白：在接下来的半英里中，波拉德耐心地让“海饼干”穿过人群，最后塞进领先者的后面。
Narrator: : Rosemont, meanwhile, was on the move from behind, darting in and out of the field, inching up on the outside.
旁白：：与此同时，罗斯蒙特从后面移动，冲进冲出场地，从外侧一点一点地向上移动。
Narrator: : At the top of the home stretch, Seabiscuit swung into the lead with Rosemont hard on his heels.
旁白：：在最后冲刺阶段，Seabiscuit 取得领先，Rosemont 紧随其后。
Newsreel (archival): : Seabiscuit has got the lead and the battle’s on and it’s anybody’s race right til the end.
新闻影片（档案）：：Seabiscuit 取得了领先，战斗已经开始，直到最后，这都是任何人的比赛。
Laura Hillenbrand, Author: : It looked like he had it.
劳拉·希伦布兰德 (Laura Hillenbrand)，作者： ：看起来他已经拥有了。
They were running down midstretch with a clear lead, and Red Pollard kind of froze.
他们以明显的领先优势跑到了中段，雷德·波拉德有点僵住了。
This was the biggest moment in his career, and he stopped urging the horse.
这是他职业生涯中最重要的时刻，他不再催马了。
For fifteen strides, he just sat there and he started slowing down.
十五步之后，他就坐在那里，开始放慢速度。
Narrator: : With only fifty yards to go, Pollard suddenly snapped into action and dropped the whip across Seabiscuit’s flank.
旁白：：距离比赛只剩五十码了，波拉德突然采取行动，将鞭子扔到了海饼干的侧翼上。
The two horses hurtled under the wire together.
两匹马一起在铁丝网下猛冲。
Newsreel (archival): : A photo finish, all eyes turn upward to the photo booth.
新闻片（档案）： ：一张照片结束，所有人的目光都转向照相亭。
An eternity for those who anxiously await the outcome — down the slender wire to the judges platform, closely determine the microscopic difference…
对于那些焦急等待结果的人来说，这是永恒的——沿着细长的钢丝到达评委台，仔细确定微观的差异……
Laura Hillenbrand, Author: : Red Pollard got off the horse, and could see that everyone was looking at him with accusation.
劳拉·希伦布兰德 (Laura Hillenbrand)，作者： 雷德·波拉德 (Red Pollard) 下马，发现每个人都用指责的目光看着他。
Why had he stopped riding the horse for 15 strides?
为什么他骑了十五步就停下来了？
He had blown the race.
他输掉了比赛。
From everyone’s perspective it was inexplicable what he had done.
I think the reason why Red stopped riding was that he couldn’t see Rosemont coming.
我认为雷德停止骑行的原因是他看不到罗斯蒙特的到来。
Rosemont was to his outside, and Red was blind in his right eye.
罗斯蒙特在他的外面，雷德的右眼失明了。
At the beginning of his career, he was struck in the back of the head with something kicked up by another horse’s hooves.
在他职业生涯的初期，他的后脑勺被另一匹马蹄踢起的东西击中。
It hit his head right over the visual center of his brain and blinded him in one eye.
它击中了他的头部，击中了他大脑的视觉中心，导致他的一只眼睛失明。
So he couldn’t tell how close he was cutting it.
所以他不知道他能把它剪到多近。
He, he rode right into the pack with one eye.
他，他用一只眼睛直接骑进了狼群。
And he kept it secret.
他保守了这个秘密。
His closest friends didn’t know it.
他最亲密的朋友并不知道这一点。
If he had admitted he was blind in one eye, the stewards would rightly have banned him from the track, and he never would have ridden again.
如果他承认自己一只眼睛失明，那么干事就会正确地禁止他参加赛道，他也永远不会再参加比赛了。
It was the only life he knew.
这是他唯一知道的生活。
It was the only thing he wanted to do, so he had to just let people criticize him and say nothing.
这是他唯一想做的事，所以他只能让人们批评他，什么也不说。
Narrator: : The furor over Pollard’s mistake made Seabiscuit a local celebrity.
旁白：：对波拉德错误的愤怒使海饼干成为了当地的名人。
Had it not been for his jockey, West Coast sportswriters insisted, the horse would have surely run off with a hundred grand.
西海岸体育记者坚称，如果没有他的骑师，这匹马肯定会赢得一百英镑。
But the adulation was far from universal.
但这种奉承远非普遍。
In the prestigious racing circles of the East, most racetrackers still regarded Seabiscuit with skepticism—if not outright scorn.
在东方著名的赛车界，大多数赛马运动员仍然对 Seabiscuit 持怀疑态度——如果不是彻底蔑视的话。
Jack Whitaker, Sportscaster: : Always the Eastern people would sneer, “Oh — he’s a California horse ,” and for many years they were right!
杰克·惠特克（Jack Whitaker），体育广播员：东方人总是会冷笑，“哦——他是一匹加州马”，多年来他们都是对的！
[laughs] Because it was the Eastern horses cleaning up on the Triple Crown races anyway.
[笑]因为无论如何都是东部的马匹在三冠王比赛中清理干净。
Narrator: : If Eastern horsemen wanted proof of Seabiscuit’s mettle, Charles Howard meant to give it to them.
旁白：如果东部骑兵想要证明海饼干的勇气，查尔斯·霍华德就打算给他们。
On March 13th, 1937, he packed his horse off on an exhaustive cross-country racing campaign.
1937 年 3 月 13 日，他带着他的马参加了一次详尽的越野赛跑。
“Seabiscuit will take on all comers,” he told the press, “and he’ll mow them down like grass.”
他对媒体说：“Seabiscuit 会迎战所有的对手，他会像割草一样把他们砍倒。”
Newsreel (archival): : Seabiscuit took them all on.
新闻片（档案）： ：Seabiscuit 接受了所有挑战。
Back and forth he shuttles…from train to track.
他来回穿梭……从火车到轨道。
Narrator: : That summer and fall, the Eastern racing establishment dined almost exclusively on crow.
旁白： 那年夏天和秋天，东部赛马机构几乎只吃乌鸦。
Shipping an unheard-of 8,000 miles, Seabiscuit blazed to victory in ten major stakes races, boosting his total earnings for the year to 144,000 dollars — more than the world’s top money-winner had earned in his best season ever.
Seabiscuit 的飞行里程达到了闻所未闻的 8,000 英里，在十场重大赛事中取得了胜利，使他当年的总收入达到了 144,000 美元——比这位世界头号奖金赢家在他有史以来最好的赛季中获得的收入还要多。
Newsreel (archival): : Sports-loving fans have found an idol and backed Seabiscuit to the limit…
新闻片（档案）：：热爱体育的粉丝找到了偶像，并全力支持 Seabiscuit……
Narrator: : But he did not win the coveted title of Horse of the Year.
旁白： ：但他并没有赢得令人垂涎的年度赛马称号。
That honor went to an eastern-bred three-year-old, the son of Man o’ War and only the fourth horse in history to win the Triple Crown.
这项荣誉颁给了一匹东方繁殖的三岁马，它是“Man o’ War”的儿子，也是历史上第四匹赢得三冠王的马。
His name was War Admiral.
他的名字是战争海军上将。
Imperious and temperamental like his legendary sire, War Admiral was infamous for throwing wild tantrums in the starting gate.
就像他的传奇父亲一样，这位战争上将专横而喜怒无常，他因在起跑门上发脾气而臭名昭著。
But in a race, he was breathtaking.
但在比赛中，他却表现得惊人。
Newsreel (archival): : There’s not a colt today can catch the Admiral’s flying heels.
新闻片（档案）： ：今天没有一匹小马能追上海军上将的飞行高跟鞋。
And it’s War Admiral by four lengths!
而且是战争海军上将四倍！
Narrator: : War Admiral didn’t run — he flew .
旁白：：海军上将没有跑——他飞了。
On the oval, no other horse ever got close to him.
在椭圆形跑道上，没有其他马能够接近他。
But some racing fans believed Seabiscuit just might.
但一些赛车迷相信 Seabiscuit 可能会成功。
Newsreel (archival): : All turfdom wants to know if Seabiscuit can beat the great War Admiral….
新闻片（档案）：：所有地盘都想知道 Seabiscuit 能否击败伟大的战争海军上将……。
Narrator: : If Seabiscuit were going to claim the turf championship, he’d have to dethrone War Admiral.
旁白：：如果海饼干想要夺得地盘冠军，他就必须废黜战争海军上将。
One of the century’s greatest sports rivalries had begun.
本世纪最伟大的体育竞赛之一已经开始。
The match-race fit right in with Howard’s plan to make Seabiscuit a star.
这场比赛正好符合霍华德让海饼干成为明星的计划。
But War Admiral’s notoriously cantankerous owner, Samuel Riddle, refused to commit.
但战争海军上将号臭名昭著的脾气暴躁的主人塞缪尔·里德尔拒绝承诺。
He had no intention of demeaning his horse’s reputation, he told reporters, in a contest against a Western colt.
他告诉记者，在与一匹西方小马的比赛中，他无意贬低他的马的声誉。
So the Howard barn returned to California to prepare for the next best thing: another go at the Santa Anita Handicap.
于是，霍华德谷仓回到加利福尼亚，准备下一件最好的事情：再次参加圣安妮塔障碍赛。
This time, they vowed, Seabiscuit would win.
这一次，他们发誓，海饼干一定会赢。
But as the race drew near, their confidence began to wane.
但随着比赛的临近，他们的信心开始减弱。
Days of drenching rains turned the track to a swamp, and Seabiscuit — never at his best in the mud — was scratched from one warm-up after another.
连续几天的倾盆大雨将赛道变成了沼泽，而海饼干——在泥泞中从未发挥过最佳状态——在一次又一次的热身中被刮伤。
Finally, a restless Pollard opted to ride a race without him, climbing aboard Howard’s star filly, Fair Knightess, instead.
最后，焦躁不安的波拉德选择在没有他的情况下参加比赛，而是骑上霍华德的明星母马“公平骑士”。
It was a decision he would come to regret.
这是一个他后来会后悔的决定。
Halfway around the turn, Fair Knightess clipped the heels of the horse in front of her and tumbled, pitching Pollard over her head and crushing him beneath her as she thudded to the ground.
转弯到一半时，美丽的女骑士夹住了她前面的马后跟，摔倒了，把波拉德推到了她的头上，当她重重地摔倒在地时，把他压在了她的身下。
Farrell Jones, Former Jockey: : That mare just fell and fell on him and fell like, lucky he didn’t kill him.
法雷尔·琼斯，前骑师：：那匹母马刚刚摔倒在他身上，幸运的是他没有杀死他。
I mean you take a horse that weighs a thousand pounds and, and it lays on you a little bit and…
我的意思是，你牵着一匹重达一千磅的马，它压在你身上一点点，然后……
you ain’t gonna last.
你不会持久的。
Narrator: : Pollard’s diagnosis was grim: a shattered collarbone, a broken shoulder, multiple rib fractures and serious internal injuries.
旁白：：波拉德的诊断结果很严峻：锁骨粉碎，肩膀骨折，多处肋骨骨折，还有严重的内伤。
The doctors said he wouldn’t ride again for at least a year.
医生说他至少一年内不会再骑车。
The hundred-grander — and his chance to redeem the loss to Rosemont — was gone.
百大奖金——以及他弥补对罗斯蒙特的损失的机会——已经消失了。
Laura Hillenbrand, Author: : During his time in the hospital, it tortured him to not be out there with the horse.
劳拉·希伦布兰德（Laura Hillenbrand），作者：：在医院期间，他无法和马一起出去，这让他备受折磨。
This was a very unfortunate man; he was a very tormented man.
这是一个非常不幸的人；他是一个非常痛苦的人。
And was more star-crossed than any athlete I know of.
他比我认识的任何运动员都更加不幸。
Norah Christianson, Red Pollard’s Daughter: : I do think there is a real lure to living your life all the way up, which is what Hemingway said, only bullfighters live their lives all the way up and he meant by that that every day, every day they face death, and it does put an edge to things, you know, and I think he had to have that.
诺拉·克里斯蒂安森，雷德·波拉德的女儿：我确实认为，让自己的生活一路走高是有真正的诱惑的，这就是海明威所说的，只有斗牛士才能一路走高，他的意思是，每天，他们每天都面临死亡，这确实给事情带来了优势，你知道，我认为他必须拥有这一点。
That defined him, that was what he was.
这定义了他，这就是他。
Narrator: : Three days later, his left arm in traction, Pollard made it clear that there was only one jockey who could replace him — his old friend, George Monroe Woolf.
旁白：三天后，波拉德的左臂受到牵引，明确表示只有一位骑师可以取代他——他的老朋友乔治·门罗·伍尔夫。
Leonard Dorfman, Trainer: : They called George “the Iceman” because he could sit chilly on a horse as long as anybody.
伦纳德·多夫曼（Leonard Dorfman），驯马师：：他们称乔治为“冰人”，因为他可以像任何人一样在马背上寒冷地坐着。
I thought he was perfection in motion, really.
我认为他的动作非常完美，真的。
To watch George Woolf ride, really to watch him coming down the stretch on a horse, boy he, he looked beautiful to me.
观看乔治·伍尔夫骑马，真正观看他骑马冲下跑道，天哪，他对我来说看起来很漂亮。
Uh, I don’t know whether he was helping the horse, but he sure looked like it.
呃，我不知道他是否在帮助马，但他看起来确实是这样。
Gene Smith, Writer: : A great jockey is a genius.
吉恩·史密斯（Gene Smith），作家：：伟大的骑师是天才。
What a jockey needs to do is have supreme balance.
骑师需要做的是拥有最高的平衡能力。
He has to have the fingers of a great pianist in order to sense through the reins what the horse is capable of.
他必须拥有伟大钢琴家的手指才能通过缰绳感知马的能力。
The jockey through his knees senses what the horse is doing.
骑师通过膝盖感知马匹在做什么。
The only part of the jockey that never touches anything is the part that should normally go into the saddle.
骑师唯一从不接触任何东西的部分是通常应该进入马鞍的部分。
When to whip.
什么时候鞭打。
When to hold back.
什么时候该忍住。
To go inside.
要进去。
To go outside.
去外面。
To go through an opening this big where your elbows brush the jock next to you at forty-something miles an hour, and your stirrups clang against his stirrup, all of this a 110-pound man on top on a 1,200-pound horse.
要穿过这么大的开口，你的肘部会以每小时四十多英里的速度擦过你旁边的运动员，你的马镫会撞到他的马镫，所有这一切都是一个 110 磅重的人骑在一匹 1,200 磅重的马身上。
It’s a thing of beauty.
这是一件美丽的事情。
Helen Luther, Red Pollard’s Friend: : To be behind a horse and have all the dirt and mud and everything else in your face going through on the inside, of course, that’s dangerous — it took nerve.
海伦·路德（Helen Luther），雷德·波拉德的朋友：：站在马后面，脸上的泥土和其他一切东西都从里面穿过，当然，这很危险——需要勇气。
Or else, no sense.
不然就没意义了。
I used to say, “No brains, no fear.” They had a joke about, riders who, you know, were a little skittish and if they’d ever be on the outside, they’d say, “Oh yes, he took the married man’s route.”
我曾经说过：“没有大脑，就没有恐惧。”他们有一个笑话，说的是，你知道的，骑手们有点紧张，如果他们在外面，他们会说，“哦，是的，他走了已婚男人的路线。”
Narrator: : Off the track, a jockey’s existence was marked by the constant, grueling struggle to make weight.
旁白：：在赛场之外，骑师的存在就是不断地、艰苦地努力增重。
The limit hinged on the ranking of the mount — the better the horse, the higher the weight he was assigned to carry, the heavier the jockey could be.
限制取决于坐骑的等级——马越好，被分配的负重就越高，骑师的体重也就越重。
But even the best horses seldom carried a rider who tipped the scales at more than 114 pounds.
但即使是最好的马匹，骑手的体重也很少超过 114 磅。
If a jockey wanted to ride with any kind of regularity, he had to whittle down to at least 110.
如果骑师想要有规律地骑行，他就必须减少到至少 110 次。
Gene Smith, Writer: : Weight can stop a freight train is an old racetrack expression.
吉恩·史密斯（Gene Smith），作家： 重量可以让货运列车停止是一个古老的赛马场说法。
Two or three pounds is over the assigned weight.
超出指定重量两到三磅。
It means that the horse, before he comes out of the gate, he’s lost several lengths because he’s got to tote that extra weight.
这意味着马在走出大门之前，已经损失了好几匹马，因为他必须承受额外的重量。
Jockeys can’t expect to make a living if they’re gonna eat well.
如果骑师吃得好，他们就不能指望谋生。
As a matter of fact, some time ago, I was talking to a very famous jockey and I said, “What are you going to do when you retire,” and he said, “Eat lunch.”
事实上，不久前，我和一位非常著名的骑师聊天，我说，“你退役后打算做什么，”他说，“吃午饭。”
Newsreel (archival): : The thermometer reads a hundred and forty, but Billy Passmore lies under a blanket — too much breakfast.
新闻片（档案）：：温度计读数为一百四十，但比利·帕斯莫尔躺在毯子下——早餐太多了。
And Bobby Stevenson is compensating for a couple of hamburgers he just couldn’t resist.
鲍比·史蒂文森（Bobby Stevenson）正在补偿他无法抗拒的几个汉堡。
Narrator: : George Woolf weighed in at 115 pounds — five less than the recently-crowned Miss America, but hefty by turf standards.
旁白：乔治·伍尔夫的体重为 115 磅，比刚刚加冕的美国小姐轻了 5 磅，但以草坪标准来看却很重。
While lighter jockeys rode more than a thousand races a year, Woolf averaged fewer than 200.
体重较轻的骑师每年参加 1000 多场比赛，而伍尔夫平均参加比赛的次数不到 200 场。
But his winning-average was so high that he still ranked among the best money-riders in the country.
但他的平均胜率如此之高，以至于他仍然跻身全国最好的金钱骑手之列。
Not surprisingly, Woolf was confident about the hundred-grander.
毫不奇怪，伍尔夫对百亿美元充满信心。
He even made Pollard a promise: when Seabiscuit won, they’d split the jockey’s $10,000 share right down the middle.
他甚至向波拉德做出承诺：当 Seabiscuit 获胜时，他们将平分骑师的 10,000 美元份额。
Newsreel (archival): : Sportfolio 1938 and the $100,000 Santa Anita handicap is off and running with 18 top thoroughbreds streaking past the grand stands.
新闻影片（档案）： ：Sportfolio 1938 和价值 100,000 美元的圣塔安妮塔障碍赛已经开始，18 匹顶级纯种马在大看台上疾驰而过。
The famous Seabiscuit jams his way through the bunch as he starts his drive toward the leaders.
著名的“海饼干”从人群中挤过，开始向领先者冲去。
But Stagehand plods along steadily on the outside getting positioned for one of the greatest stretch duels in handicap history.
但舞台工作人员在外线稳步前进，为残障历史上最伟大的伸展对决之一做好了准备。
Seabiscuit and Stagehand hook the pace together and it boils down to a thrilling two-horse race.
Seabiscuit 和 Stagehand 齐心协力，最终形成了一场激动人心的两匹马赛跑。
Seabiscuit on the inside, Stagehand on the outside, neck and neck to the wire but in the last jump it’s Stagehand in a fantastic photo finish.
Seabiscuit 位于内侧，Stagehand 位于外侧，两者并驾齐驱，但在最后一跳，Stagehand 完成了精彩的拍摄。
Narrator: : Even though he’d lost the hundred-grander for the second time in a row, Seabiscuit had turned in one of the most dazzling performances in the history of thoroughbred racing.
旁白：：尽管Seabiscuit连续第二次输掉了百场比赛，但他还是交出了纯种马历史上最耀眼的表现之一。
Fouled early by a hopeless long shot, he’d catapulted from twelfth place to first in just half a mile, only to wind up in fierce homestretch drive against a horse toting thirty fewer pounds.
他早早地被一次无望的远射犯规，仅仅半英里就从第十二名跃升至第一名，最后却在最后冲刺时与一匹体重少了三十磅的马进行了激烈的冲刺。
And still, he’d only lost by a nose.
尽管如此，他还是以微弱优势输了。
Leonard Dorfman, Trainer: : The best race I’ve ever seen a horse run was the day that Stagehand beat him in the Santa Anita Handicap.
伦纳德·多夫曼（Leonard Dorfman），练马师：：我见过的最好的赛马比赛是 Stagehand 在 Santa Anita Handicap 中击败他的那一天。
Newsreel (archival): : Seabiscuit is back about ninth, now Georgie Woolf has got him clear and trying to fight his way through there…
新闻影片（档案）：：《Seabiscuit》大约排在第九位，现在乔治·伍尔夫已经让他清楚了，并试图在那里奋力拼搏……
Leonard Dorfman, Trainer: : This horse, with 130 pounds on his back, spotting the other horse 30 pounds and making that big move to pass all those horses and go to the front and then have Stagehand come running at him like he was gonna run right by him and then Seabiscuit just took off.
伦纳德·多夫曼（Leonard Dorfman），练马师：：这匹马背上有 130 磅重，发现另一匹马有 30 磅重，于是做出了一个大动作，超越了所有这些马，走到前面，然后舞台工作人员向他跑来，就像他要从他身边跑过去一样，然后 Seabiscuit 就起飞了。
Newsreel (archival): : And now there goes Seabiscuit going to the front, but look out for Stagehand…
新闻片（档案）：：现在 Seabiscuit 走到了前面，但要注意舞台工作人员……
Farrell Jones, Former Jockey: : It was unbelievable to me this day, what happened.
法雷尔·琼斯，前骑师：：今天发生的事情对我来说令人难以置信。
He kept running; he kept running even after he got away from the trouble.
他继续奔跑；即使摆脱了麻烦，他仍然继续奔跑。
He did that.
他这么做了。
He was phenomenal.
他是非凡的。
Newsreel Announcer 2 (archival): : Shut off I think when the gate went up.
新闻片播音员 2（档案）： ：我想是在大门升起时关闭的。
Narrator: : “Now that all the hullabaloo on the handicap has died down,” one turf scribe wrote, “the time has come to assert that Seabiscuit was the best horse in the race.”
旁白：“既然所有关于让分的喧嚣已经平息，”一位赛马抄写员写道，“现在是时候断言“海饼干”是比赛中最好的马了。”
It was an opinion that would be voiced over and over again, in newspapers from Syracuse to Sacramento.
从锡拉丘兹到萨克拉门托的报纸上都会一遍又一遍地表达这种观点。
Never before had a race horse been so widely praised for losing .
从来没有一匹赛马因失败而受到如此广泛的赞扬。
Gene Smith, Writer: : You have a downtrodden, Charlie Chaplin-esque figure who comes out of the mire and the sorry exploitation of the little man.
吉恩·史密斯，编剧：：你有一个受压迫的查理·卓别林式的人物，他从泥沼中走出来，并从对小人物的令人遗憾的剥削中走出来。
Probably there are people who thought to themselves I’m making twenty dollars a week, it’s enough to support my family, but I could lose my job tomorrow, but maybe someday I’ll come back and be the great guy I always was destined to be, look at Seabiscuit.
可能有人会想，我每周赚二十美元，足以养家糊口，但明天我可能会失业，但也许有一天我会回来，成为我注定要成为的好人，看看 Seabiscuit。
He did it.
他做到了。
Narrator: : All across the country, people who’d never even been to a racetrack caught the fever.
旁白：：全国各地，甚至从未去过赛马场的人都发烧了。
One sportswriter called it “Seabiscuit-itus.”
一位体育记者称之为“Seabiscuit-itus”。
Laura Hillenbrand, Author: : He drew enormous crowds.
劳拉·希伦布兰德（Laura Hillenbrand），作者：：他吸引了大批观众。
People would crowd by the railroad tracks when he went across the country.
当他穿越全国时，人们会聚集在铁轨旁。
In little remote towns, people would crowd up next to the train to see if they could get a little glimpse of him.
在偏远的小镇上，人们会聚集在火车旁边，想看一眼他。
Laura Hillenbrand, Author: : He was merchandised to a phenomenal degree.
劳拉·希伦布兰德 (Laura Hillenbrand)，作者： ：他的商品化程度达到了惊人的程度。
There were Seabiscuit ladies’ hats sold on Fifth Avenue.
第五大道上有卖Seabiscuit女士帽子。
There were at least five Seabiscuit board games.
至少有五款“Seabiscuit”棋盘游戏。
There was a Seabiscuit pinball machine.
有一台Seabiscuit弹球机。
He had his own line of oranges.
他有自己的橙子系列。
He endorsed dry-cleaning services and hotels, absolutely everything.
他认可干洗服务和酒店，绝对是一切。
He was a superstar.
他是一位超级巨星。
He would have been a superstar in any era, but he came along at a time when America was desperate for inspiring heroes.
他在任何时代都会成为超级巨星，但他出现在美国迫切需要鼓舞人心的英雄的时代。
Heroes that looked like America.
看起来像美国的英雄。
Newsreel (archival): : It’s a new track record for the mile and an eighth as Seabiscuit shoves his whiskers for the home plate just enough to hit the handsome jackpot.
新闻片（档案）：：这是新的一英里记录，也是第八个记录，因为 Seabiscuit 把他的胡须推向本垒，刚好赢得了丰厚的大奖。
Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, this is Ken Carpenter greeting you from Santa Anita racecourse in Arcadia California….
下午好，女士们先生们，我是肯·卡彭特（Ken Carpenter），他在加利福尼亚州阿卡迪亚的圣塔安妮塔赛马场向你们致意……
Seabiscuit gets a big hand.
海饼干得到了很大的帮助。
I can see them applauding….
我可以看到他们在鼓掌……
Seabiscuit carries his top weight of 133 lbs.
Seabiscuit 的最高体重为 133 磅。
to a spectacular victory in record-shattering time….
在破纪录的时间内取得一场壮观的胜利……
Laura Hillenbrand, Author: : At the beginning of his career, about half the people in America had radios.
劳拉·希伦布兰德 (Laura Hillenbrand)，作者： ：在他职业生涯的初期，大约一半的美国人拥有收音机。
By the end of it, virtually everybody did, and there were eight million sets in cars.
到最后，几乎每个人都这样做了，汽车里有八百万套。
Laura Hillenbrand, Author: : Seabiscuit raced during the racing season about once a week, so it became an American ritual to gather around the radio and listen to him run and it has a lot to do with why he became such a huge celebrity in America.
劳拉·希伦布兰德 (Laura Hillenbrand)，作者：Seabiscuit 在赛季期间大约每周参加一次比赛，因此聚集在收音机旁听他跑步成为了美国人的一种仪式，这与他在美国成为如此大的名人有很大关系。
He was one of the first big radio stars.
他是最早的广播明星之一。
Newsreel (archival): : This is the National Broadcasting Company…
新闻片（档案）：：这是国家广播公司……
Narrator: : In the Spring of 1938, Seabiscuit made headlines almost every day, as breathless sportswriters broke the news that the Howard bay would at last meet his arch-rival, War Admiral, in a full-field race at Boston’s Suffolk Downs.
旁白：1938 年春天，Seabiscuit 几乎每天都成为头条新闻，体育记者们气喘吁吁地爆出消息，霍华德湾终于将在波士顿萨福克唐斯的一场全场比赛中遇到他的主要竞争对手战争海军上将。
All over the country, magazines and newspapers featured side-by-side photographs of the celebrity horses, offering endless comparisons of their relative size and speed and merits.
全国各地的杂志和报纸都刊登了名人马匹的并排照片，对它们的相对大小、速度和优点进行了无尽的比较。
Sportswriters furiously polled fans for their predictions, and composed lengthy editorials on the likely outcome of the race.
体育记者疯狂地调查球迷的预测，并就比赛可能的结果撰写长篇社论。
“I am one of the narrow-minded group which has seen War Admiral run too often,” one columnist wrote, “to concede Seabiscuit a chance for anything better than a seat in Congress this year.”
一位专栏作家写道：“我属于心胸狭隘的群体之一，因为战争海军上将的竞选太过频繁，所以我不会承认海饼干今年有机会获得比国会席位更好的机会。”
Gene Smith, Writer: : People looking at War Admiral saw a magnificent horse.
吉恩·史密斯（Gene Smith），编剧：：人们看到《海军上将》时看到的是一匹雄伟的马。
Good-looking.
好看。
Came from an illustrious background.
出身显赫。
He came from an aristocratic barn.
他来自贵族谷仓。
Seabiscuit doesn’t have that long, elegant, aristocratic, wide-eyed look of eagles.
Seabiscuit没有老鹰那种修长、优雅、贵族、睁大眼睛的样子。
He looked like he ought to be drawing a cart with ice behind it some place.
他看起来应该在某个地方拉一辆车，车后备有冰块。
Narrator: : Seabiscuit’s fans hailed him as a plain working man, a proletarian, a modern Horatio Alger.
旁白：：Seabiscuit 的粉丝称赞他是一个普通的工人、一个无产阶级、一个现代的霍雷肖·阿尔杰。
“He’ll take that fancy little War Admiral,” one predicted, “and curl him into a pretzel.”
“他会带走那位奇特的小陆军上将，”一位预测说，“然后把他卷成椒盐卷饼。”
Six days before the race, a fully-recovered Pollard did an old friend a favor and agreed to work his green two-year-old colt.
比赛前六天，完全康复的波拉德帮了一位老朋友一个忙，同意让他的两岁小马驹继续训练。
Halfway around the oval, the horse spooked, crashed through the rail, and tore off in the direction of the barns.
绕到椭圆形跑道的一半时，那匹马受到惊吓，冲破栏杆，朝谷仓的方向飞奔而去。
As he tried to cut between two sheds, he skidded sideways, smashed into a corner, then crumpled in a heap.
当他试图从两个棚屋之间切入时，他侧滑了，撞到了一个角落，然后摔成了一堆。
At the far end of the shed row, they heard the screams.
在棚屋的尽头，他们听到了尖叫声。
Pollard’s right leg had been nearly severed just below the knee.
波拉德的右腿膝盖以下几乎被切断。
Norah Christianson, Red Pollard’s Daughter: : The pain was excruciating, excruciating.
诺拉·克里斯蒂安森（Norah Christianson），雷德·波拉德（Red Pollard）的女儿：：痛苦非常难以忍受。
He had such a lot of bad luck with regards to spills.
他在泄漏方面运气很差。
And my father would get so enraged if you ever said, if anyone ever said, you know that he fell off a horse.
如果你说，如果有人说，你知道他从马上摔下来，我父亲会非常生气。
He would say, I don’t fall off horses.
他会说，我不会从马上摔下来。
I was thrown!
我被扔了！
Helen Luther, Red Pollard’s Friend: : I don’t know how he held himself together.
海伦·路德，雷德·波拉德的朋友：我不知道他是如何保持镇定的。
Especially when they tore his leg open — when the bones were fractured.
尤其是当他们把他的腿撕开时——骨头骨折了。
Oh, I don’t know how he stood it.
哦，我不知道他是怎么忍受的。
Narrator: : All through that summer, Pollard lay in bed in a Boston hospital, reading Emerson while surgeons fretted over his leg.
旁白：整个夏天，波拉德躺在波士顿一家医院的病床上，一边阅读爱默生的著作，一边听外科医生为他的腿操心。
They twice rebroke and reset it, but the splintered bones would not heal.
他们两次重新折断并重置它，但破碎的骨头无法愈合。
His body shriveled to a scant eighty-six pounds.
他的身体萎缩到不足八十六磅。
The doctors told Pollard he would never ride again.
医生告诉波拉德他再也不会骑马了。
Norah Christianson, Red Pollard’s Daughter: : I think he was immensely, deeply disappointed, like one of the great disappointments in his life, but I think he had a perspective on all that, through philosophies of the writers that he read.
诺拉·克里斯蒂安森，雷德·波拉德的女儿：：我认为他感到非常、深深的失望，就像他一生中最大的失望之一，但我认为通过他读过的作家的哲学，他对这一切有自己的看法。
He would always say — this comes from Shakespeare, — “sweet are the uses of adversity.”
他总是说——这句话来自莎士比亚——“逆境的好处是甜蜜的。”
Narrator: : As summer turned to fall, adversity’s uses took shape in the person of Agnes Conlon, Pollard’s private duty nurse.
旁白：随着夏秋交替，波拉德的私人值班护士艾格尼丝·康伦 (Agnes Conlon) 身上逐渐显现出逆境的用途。
The daughter of a well-to-do Boston antique dealer, she was educated, refined, reserved — Red’s opposite in almost every way.
她是波士顿一位富裕古董商的女儿，受过良好教育，举止文雅，内向——几乎在各方面都与雷德相反。
She was also already spoken for.
她也已经被代言了。
Pollard was smitten enough not to care.
波拉德完全被迷住了，根本不在乎。
One afternoon, he looked up from his poetry and asked Nurse Conlon to marry him.
一天下午，他从诗歌中抬起头，向康伦护士求婚。
To the horror of her status-conscious family, Agnes said yes.
艾格尼丝答应了，这令她注重地位的家人感到恐惧。
Norah Christianson, Red Pollard’s Daughter: : Her parents looked askance at her going to marry my father, as if he were out of the circus or something strange like that.
诺拉·克里斯蒂安森（Norah Christianson），雷德·波拉德（Red Pollard）的女儿：：她的父母斜视着她要嫁给我的父亲，就好像他是从马戏团出来的或者类似的奇怪的东西。
And ah, a long time later, I learned from an aunt, she said, “You know, none of us wanted her to marry him.
啊，很久以后，我从一位阿姨那里得知，她说，“你知道，我们谁都不希望她嫁给他。
We just didn’t think that he was worthy of her.”
我们只是觉得他配不上她。”
Newsreel (archival): : Millions of racing fans in America and abroad look anxiously toward the richest match race in the history of the sport of kings…
新闻片（档案）：：美国和国外数以百万计的赛车迷焦急地期待着国王运动历史上最丰富的比赛……
Narrator: : By the fall of 1938, the Seabiscuit-War Admiral match-up had been rescheduled.
旁白： ： 1938 年秋天，海饼干与战争海军上将的比赛被重新安排。
They would meet, one-on-one, November 1st at Maryland’s Pimlico Racecourse.
他们将于 11 月 1 日在马里兰州皮姆利科赛马场进行一对一的会面。
“The whole country is divided in two camps,” the San Francisco Chronicle observed.
“整个国家分为两个阵营，”《旧金山纪事报》评论道。
“People who never saw a horserace in their lives are taking sides.”
“那些一生中从未见过赛马的人正在站在一边。”
Newsreel (archival): : The crowd makes War Admiral an odds-on favorite.
新闻影片（档案）：：观众们使《战争海军上将》成为最受欢迎的影片。
Narrator: : George Woolf had signed on to ride Seabiscuit — and for the first time in his career, he wasn’t sure he would win.
旁白：乔治·伍尔夫已经签约骑乘“Seabiscuit”——这是他职业生涯中第一次，他不确定自己是否会获胜。
The night before the race, he’d even called Pollard for advice.
比赛前一天晚上，他甚至打电话给波拉德寻求建议。
His instructions had been simple, if highly unorthodox.
他的指示很简单，尽管非常不正统。
Gun Seabiscuit at the start, he told Woolf, and then let War Admiral catch up.
他告诉伍尔夫，一开始就用海饼干开枪，然后让海军上将赶上来。
“Once a horse gives Seabiscuit the old look-in-the-eye,” Pollard said, “he begins to run to parts unknown…”
波拉德说：“一旦一匹马以旧日的眼神注视着海饼干，它就会开始跑向未知的地方……”
Thirty thousand people filled the grandstand that afternoon.
那天下午，看台上挤满了三万人。
Another ten thousand jammed into the infield.
又有一万人涌入内场。
Outside the track, ten thousand more gathered ten-deep around the fence, and scrambled up tree limbs and telephone poles as far as a mile from the start.
在赛道外，还有一万人聚集在栅栏周围十层深处，爬上树枝和电线杆，最远距离起点有一英里。
Gelo Hall, Jockey Agent: : I was in the Grandstand.
Gelo Hall，赛马经纪人： ：我在看台上。
And if I can recollect, distinctly, I was squeezed in, because that’s how many people were there.
如果我记得很清楚的话，我是被挤进去的，因为那里有那么多人。
I was squeezed in just around the 3/16 pole, where the horses broke.
我被挤在 3/16 杆附近，马匹就在那里崩溃了。
It was so enthralling.
真是令人着迷。
It was a two-horse extravaganza.
这是一场两匹马的盛宴。
I mean, they had built the race to an outstanding pitch.
我的意思是，他们将比赛打造成出色的表现。
Everybody knew what was coming…
每个人都知道接下来会发生什么……
that…
那……
particular…
特别是……
day.
一天。
Everybody knew.
每个人都知道。
East Coast.
东海岸。
West Coast.
西海岸。
I mean it was in the air.
我的意思是它在空气中。
It engulfed you, I mean, it was just like, man it’s about to happen.
它吞没了你，我的意思是，就像，伙计，它即将发生。
Waiting for the bell to ring.
等待铃声响起。
Narrator: : Down at the paddock gate, the announcer Clem McCarthy began to make his way to the radio booth, but the crowd was so thick he couldn’t get through.
旁白：：在围场门口，播音员克莱姆·麦卡锡开始走向广播亭，但人群太拥挤了，他无法通过。
Newsreel (archival): : Ladies and Gentlemen I found it impossible to get through this enormous throng at Pimlico today — the first time I’ve ever failed to do that from the paddock…
新闻片（档案）：：女士们先生们，我发现今天不可能穿过皮姆利科这么多的人群——这是我第一次在围场里无法做到这一点……
Narrator: : So he climbed up on the track’s outer rail, down by the wire, and settled in to call the race from there.
旁白：：于是他爬上赛道的外栏杆，沿着电线向下爬，然后在那里宣布比赛。
Across the country, forty million listeners — one out of every three Americans — tuned in to the broadcast.
全国各地有四千万听众（每三个美国人中就有一个）收听了广播。
Clem McCarthy (Archival): : And they’re off!
克莱姆·麦卡锡（档案）：：他们出发了！
It’s a go, Georgie Woolf is at the whip on Seabiscuit to key him up and they’re coming to me head and head.
这是一次尝试，乔吉·伍尔夫正在鞭打“海饼干”，让他兴奋不已，他们正朝我迎面而来。
War Admiral on the inside.
里面是战争海军上将。
Woolf is fighting Seabiscuit and Seabiscuit is outrunning him.
伍尔夫正在与海饼干战斗，而海饼干却跑得比他快。
Seabiscuit is coming to me one length – two lengths in the lead.
“海饼干”正在向我逼近一杆——领先两杆。
And he came right over two lengths, he goes by me.
他走了两米远，从我身边经过。
Seabiscuit by two lengths, War Admiral right on his heels.
海饼干领先两截，海军上将紧随其后。
War Admiral is trailing him around the turn.
战争海军上将在转弯处落后于他。
Seabiscuit on the lead by two lengths .
Seabiscuit 领先了两个长度。
War Admiral is second to him and Kurtsinger is sitting still.
海军上将排在他的第二位，而库尔辛格则一动不动地坐着。
Now War Admiral is trying to move to him.
现在，海军上将正试图向他移动。
They’re going into the backstretch.
他们即将进入后伸展阶段。
Seabiscuit by a length and a half.
海饼干长了一半。
Now Seabiscuit by two lengths , War Admiral second.
现在Seabiscuit领先两倍，战争海军上将第二。
Seabiscuit by two lengths – they’re going up 3/4 of a mile to come.
Seabiscuit 两倍的长度——它们将上升 3/4 英里。
And it’s Seabiscuit by a length and a half, down the backstretch.
后面的一段距离是 Seabiscuit 的一半。
They’re halfway down that backstretch and there goes War Admiral after him.
他们已经走到了后路的中间，陆军上将跟在他后面。
Now the horse race is on!
现在赛马比赛开始了！
And I’m losing them…
而我正在失去他们……
they’re head and head, but I’ll catch them in about 50 yards.
他们是头和头，但我会在大约 50 码内抓住他们。
They’re head and head and now War Admiral has a head advantage and Seabiscuit’s got a head advantage.
他们处于领先地位，现在海军上将拥有领先优势，而海饼干则拥有领先优势。
They’re going into that far turn, head and head, and it is either one – take your choice…
他们正要进入那个大转弯，头又头，而且要么是一个——选择你的选择……
as they head for that home lane.
当他们走向那条本车道时。
This is a real horse race, just what we had hoped we’d get.
这是一场真正的赛马，正是我们所希望的。
They’re head and head and both jockeys driving.
他们都是头头，都是骑师在驾驶。
It’s the best horse from here in.
这是这里最好的马。
They’ve 200 yards to come.
他们还有 200 码。
It’s horse against horse.
这是马对马。
Both of them driving.
两人都开车。
Seabiscuit leads by a length.
海饼干领先一段距离。
Now Seabiscuit by a length and a half.
现在海饼干增加了一半长度。
Woolf has put away his whip.
伍尔夫收起了鞭子。
Seabiscuit by three; Seabiscuit by three.
海饼干三份；三块海饼干。
Seabiscuit is the winner!
海饼干是胜利者！
By four lengths!
四个长度！
And you never saw such a wild crowd.
你从来没有见过如此狂野的人群。
Seabiscuit’s the winner!
海饼干是赢家！
By four lengths.
四个长度。
Trying to drown this crowd out here.
试图淹没这里的人群。
They’re roaring around me.
他们在我周围咆哮。
Seabiscuit was the winner from end to end.
Seabiscuit 从头到尾都是赢家。
By four lengths.
四个长度。
Narrator: : Seabiscuit’s final time blazed across the tote board.
旁白：：Seabiscuit 的最后一次在赌盘上大放异彩。
No horse in Pimlico’s history had ever run the distance so fast.
皮姆利科历史上还没有哪匹马能跑得这么快。
“Speed of that kind,” one turf scribe said, “is what is known as kissing the boys good-bye.”
“这种速度，”一位草皮抄写员说，“就是所谓的与男孩们吻别。”
Newsreel (archival): : It’s a hero’s reception.
新闻片（档案）：：这是英雄的招待会。
Seabiscuit, undisputed king of thoroughbreds.
Seabiscuit，无可争议的纯种马之王。
He rewards his backers with six dollars and forty cents for each two dollars, and that’s certainly worth a blanket of flowers….
他奖励他的支持者六美元，每两美元奖励四十美分，这当然值得一床鲜花……。
Narrator: : “Seabiscuit did just what I thought he’d do,” Pollard told a columnist the next day, “He made a rear admiral out of War Admiral.”
旁白：“Seabiscuit 做了我认为他会做的事情，”波拉德第二天对一位专栏作家说，“他把战争海军上将提拔为海军少将。”
When it came time, a few weeks later, for reporters to cast their ballots for Horse of the Year, there was no debate over which one deserved the honor.
几周后，当记者投票选出年度最佳马时，没有人争论哪一匹马应该获得这一荣誉。
“The Biscuit,” sportswriter Bill Corum wrote, “turn[s] out to be the kind that Momma used to make.”
“饼干，”体育记者比尔·科勒姆写道，“原来是妈妈以前做的那种。”
Just six weeks later, Seabiscuit’s career seemed over.
仅仅六周后，Seabiscuit 的职业生涯似乎就结束了。
On February 14th, 1939, as he swung around the final turn of a prep race at Santa Anita, Seabiscuit stumbled.
1939 年 2 月 14 日，当他在圣塔安妮塔举行的一场预赛比赛的最后一个转弯时，Seabiscuit 绊倒了。
His left foreleg suddenly giving way.
他的左前腿突然屈服了。
His suspensory ligament had been ruptured.
他的悬韧带断裂了。
It was likely that he would never run again.
很可能他再也不会竞选了。
Howard was crushed.
霍华德崩溃了。
But he refused to use the word “retirement.” He took his horse home to his California ranch for what he called “a nice, long rest.”
但他拒绝使用“退休”这个词。他把他的马带回了他的加州牧场，他称之为“一次愉快的、长时间的休息”。
In April, Pollard arrived with Agnes.
四月，波拉德和艾格尼丝一起抵达。
He was flat broke, and had no home to offer his new wife.
他身无分文，也没有家可以容纳他的新婚妻子。
Graciously, the Howards took them in.
霍华德夫妇慷慨地收留了他们。
For a third time, his leg had been broken and reset.
他的腿第三次骨折并重新复位。
He hobbled along now, and drank to dull the pain.
他现在一瘸一拐地走着，并喝酒来减轻疼痛。
“[Seabiscuit and I] were a couple of old cripples together,” Pollard later said, “all washed up.”
“（Seabiscuit 和我）都是一对老瘸子，”波拉德后来说，“都被洗劫一空了。”
Throughout the summer of 1939, horse and jockey convalesced together — taking long, limping walks, pushing a little farther each day.
1939 年的整个夏天，马匹和骑师一起疗养——进行长距离、一瘸一拐的散步，每天走得更远一点。
By September, they were up to five miles.
到了九月，他们的行程达到了五英里。
“Out there among the hooting owls,” Pollard later remembered, “we both got sound again.”
“在猫头鹰的叫声中，”波拉德后来回忆道，“我们都再次听到了声音。”
Norah Christianson, Red Pollard’s Daughter: : I think that my father found a solace in watching this horse come back and grow strong, and I think in some ways, well Seabiscuit became his role model in a way.
诺拉·克里斯蒂安森（Red Pollard 的女儿）：我认为我的父亲在看着这匹马回归并变得强壮时找到了安慰，我认为在某些方面，Seabiscuit 在某种程度上成为了他的榜样。
If he can do it, I can kind of thing.
如果他能做到，我也能做到。
Narrator: : Late that fall, Charles Howard made an extraordinary announcement.
旁白： 那年秋末，查尔斯·霍华德发表了一项非同寻常的声明。
On March 2nd, 1940, seven-year-old Seabiscuit would take one last stab at the race that had so far eluded him, Santa Anita’s hundred-grander.
1940 年 3 月 2 日，七岁的海饼干 (Seabiscuit) 将在他迄今为止未能参加的桑塔·安妮塔 (Santa Anita) 百强赛中进行最后一次尝试。
But there was no mention of who would be in the saddle.
但没有提及谁将担任马鞍。
“If Red breaks that leg again,” Howard said, “he’ll be crippled for life.”
“如果雷德再次摔断那条腿，”霍华德说，“他将终身残疾。”
Still, Pollard insisted he was fit enough to ride.
尽管如此，波拉德坚称他的身体状况足以骑行。
“Old Pops and I have four good legs between us,” he told a close friend.
“老波普斯和我之间有四条好腿，”他告诉一位亲密的朋友。
“Maybe that’s enough.”
“也许这就足够了。”
Norah Christianson, Red Pollard’s Daughter: : He didn’t go to Howard and say “Please let me ride Seabiscuit in this handicap.” But Howard had doubts about the condition of his leg and a friend of my father’s said, “Maybe it’s better to have a man break his leg, than to break a man’s heart.”
诺拉·克里斯蒂安森 (Norah Christianson)，红波拉德 (Red Pollard) 的女儿：：他没有去找霍华德说“请让我在这种障碍下骑乘 Seabiscuit”。但霍华德对他的腿的状况感到怀疑，我父亲的一个朋友说：“也许让一个人打断他的腿，比让一个人伤透心更好。”
Narrator: : Finally, Howard made his decision.
旁白：：霍华德终于做出了决定。
Pollard would ride Seabiscuit in the Santa Anita Handicap.
波拉德将在圣塔安妮塔障碍赛中骑乘Seabiscuit。
On race day, Red came into the paddock just before four o’clock.
比赛当天，雷德在四点前进入围场。
Around his neck hung a medal of St. Christopher that Agnes had given him for luck.
他脖子上挂着一枚圣克里斯托弗勋章，是艾格尼丝送给他的，以求好运。
He wasn’t too proud to admit he needed it.
他并不太骄傲地承认自己需要它。
Newsreel (archival): : Eyes of the turf world are on Santa Anita and the comeback of the great Seabiscuit.
新闻片（档案）： ： 草坪界的目光都集中在圣塔安妮塔和伟大的 Seabiscuit 的复出上。
Twice, he’s lost the $100,000 handicap by a nose.
他两次以微弱优势输掉了 10 万美元的让分。
Now, if those valuable pins can stand the gaff today, he’ll try again.
现在，如果这些有价值的别针今天能经受住考验，他会再试一次。
Narrator: : As Smith hoisted him into the saddle, Pollard felt his confidence return.
旁白：：当史密斯把他扶上马鞍时，波拉德感到他的信心又回来了。
“You know the horse and the horse knows you,” Smith whispered.
“你了解马，马也了解你，”史密斯低声说道。
“Bring him home.”
“带他回家吧。”
For Pollard, it would all come down to that.
对于波拉德来说，一切都归结于此。
Exactly one minute and thirty-six seconds after the bell rang, he found himself bottled up at the top of the homestretch, with Seabiscuit straining at the reigns.
铃声响起后整整一分三十六秒，他发现自己被困在冲刺终点，而Seabiscuit则在紧张地掌控着局面。
There was no way around the front-runners.
没有办法绕过领先者。
Finally, at the far turn, a lane opened barely wide enough for the horse to get through.
最后，在最远的转弯处，一条小路的宽度勉强够马匹通过。
Pollard leaned forward in the saddle and shouted, “Now, Pop!”
波拉德在马鞍上向前倾身，喊道：“现在，爸爸！”
At the touch of the whip, Seabiscuit broke through and exploded into the lead.
鞭子一触，“海饼干”突破并取得领先。
He and Pollard scorched down the stretch and under the wire all alone.
他和波拉德独自一人在跑道上和铁丝网下奔跑。
Seabiscuit had clocked the fastest mile-and-a-quarter in Santa Anita’s history, the second-fastest ever run on an American track, and had surpassed the world money-winning record by more than 60,000 dollars.
Seabiscuit 创下了圣塔安妮塔历史上最快的一英里四分之一的成绩，是美国赛道上第二快的成绩，并且比世界奖金纪录高出了 60,000 多美元。
Some called it the greatest comeback in the history of American sports.
有人称这是美国体育史上最伟大的逆转。
“Oh,” wrote columnist Jolly Roger, “that I have lived to see this day.”
“哦，”专栏作家乔利·罗杰写道，“我能活着看到这一天。”
In the winner’s circle, Pollard sat straight-backed on his horse, his red hair matted with sweat.
在获胜者的圈子里，波拉德笔直地坐在马上，红发上满是汗水。
Beneath him, Seabiscuit was still, calmly munching the flowers from his victory wreath as dozens of camera bulbs flashed.
在他身下，海饼干一动不动，平静地咀嚼着胜利花环上的花朵，数十个相机灯泡在闪烁。
“Don’t think,” Pollard said later, “he didn’t know he was the hero.”
“别以为，”波拉德后来说，“他不知道自己是英雄。”
Gene Smith, Writer: : He suffered career-ending injuries and surmounted them, he ran until a very advanced age, and he was ridden by a jockey who suffered calamitous accidents, who somehow pulled himself together…two crippled old men who go out in a blaze of glory and do great things and to a depression-ridden, anxious, frightened nation, it must have come like a great sunrise.
作家吉恩·史密斯：他遭受了结束职业生涯的伤病，但克服了这些伤病，他一直跑到了很高的年纪，骑着他的骑师经历了灾难性的事故，但不知何故，他又振作起来……两个瘸腿的老人在光荣的火焰中走出去，做了伟大的事情，对于一个充满抑郁、焦虑、恐惧的国家来说，这一定像一个伟大的日出一样到来。
Norah Christianson, Red Pollard’s Daughter: : I think that my father understood that it was just by chance that he became famous.
诺拉·克里斯蒂安森，雷德·波拉德的女儿：我认为我的父亲明白他的成名只是偶然。
So many millions have talent or beauty, and they haven’t been in the right place at the right time, they haven’t drifted into an arena where they could be appreciated.
数以百万计的人拥有才华或美貌，但他们没有在正确的时间出现在正确的地点，他们没有进入一个可以被欣赏的舞台。
I think he knew that very deeply.
我认为他对此了解得很深。
That it was all luck.
这全是运气。
I think that together Seabiscuit and he made a whole, a comet, a star, a ball of light.
我认为海饼干和他一起创造了一个整体，一颗彗星，一颗星星，一个光球。
Laura Hillenbrand, Author: : There is something quintessentially American about everyone in this story.
劳拉·希伦布兰德（Laura Hillenbrand），作者：：这个故事中的每个人都有典型的美国特色。
About the ability to triumph over hardship—that’s the journey, that’s the journey toward the American dream.
关于战胜困难的能力——这就是旅程，这就是实现美国梦的旅程。
This country was built on that.
这个国家就是建立在这个基础上的。
And he embodies that more than anybody else.
他比任何人都更能体现这一点。
He is an extraordinary story that way.
从这一点来看，他是一个非凡的故事。
Seabiscuit's unlikely career illuminates the precarious economic conditions that defined America in the 1930s and explores the behind-the-scenes world of thoroughbred racing.
Seabiscuit 不可思议的职业生涯揭示了 1930 年代美国不稳定的经济状况，并探索了纯种赛马的幕后世界。
The unlikely horse that became a champion of endorsements.
这匹不太可能成为代言冠军的马。
America’s favorite underdog died young, succumbing to a heart attack at age 14.
这位美国最受欢迎的失败者英年早逝，14 岁时因心脏病去世。
Many of Seabiscuit's fans listened to his races on the radio, the revolutionary technology that came of age just as Seabiscuit did.
Seabiscuit 的许多粉丝在广播中收听他的比赛，这项革命性技术就像 Seabiscuit 一样成熟。
Most modern-day racehorses are thoroughbreds.
大多数现代赛马都是纯种马。
The name accurately describes this breed of horse: they all have been very thoroughly bred.
这个名字准确地描述了这个品种的马：它们都经过了非常彻底的培育。
Between 1935 and 1939 – when jockeys did not wear flak jackets, goggles, and helmets – 19 jockeys were killed in racing accidents.
1935 年至 1939 年间，当骑师没有穿防弹衣、护目镜和头盔时，有 19 名骑师在比赛事故中丧生。
The spirited rivalry between Seabiscuit and War Admiral was also a battle between the era’s dominant Eastern racing establishment and the upstart Western one.
《Seabiscuit》和《War Admiral》之间的激烈竞争也是当时东方占主导地位的赛车机构与西方新贵赛车机构之间的一场战斗。
As the Depression hovered persistently over the nation, Americans turned to one newsmaker with joyous devotion – Seabiscuit.
当大萧条持续笼罩全国时，美国人满怀喜悦地转向一位新闻人物——Seabiscuit。
In the 1930s, impoverished state governments returned to the potential honey pot of horse racing to increase revenues.
20 世纪 30 年代，贫困的州政府又重新利用赛马这个潜在的蜜罐来增加收入。
Learn about American horse racing from 1750 through the 20th century.
了解从 1750 年到 20 世纪的美国赛马运动。
Woolf earned his spurs riding in Montana and soon became a phenomenon in the minor leagues of racing.
伍尔夫在蒙大拿州赢得了马刺队的参赛资格，并很快成为小赛车联盟中的现象级人物。
For as much attention as Seabiscuit received, the horse was not considered the fastest for most of his career.
尽管“海饼干”受到了如此多的关注，但在他职业生涯的大部分时间里，这匹马并不被认为是最快的。
That distinction went to War Admiral.
这一殊荣颁给了陆军上将。