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The industrial age turns Britain Into a world power.
工业时代将英国 变成了世界强国
It produces half of the world's coal,Four-fifths of the cotton goods.
它出产全球一半的煤炭 五分之四的棉纺织品
London's banks hold more money Than all the other financial centers of the world combined.
伦敦银行所拥有的资产超过 世界上其他所有金融中心的总和
Britain dominates global trade.It becomes an empire.
英国主宰着世界贸易它成为了帝国
powerful enough to challenge a nation 40 times its size.
足以和一个领土面积是它四十倍的国家抗衡
A nation that's shunned the advances Of the industrial age.
那是一个与工业时代的进步 失之交臂的国家
China. Population: 300 million.
中国 有着三亿人口
A third of the people on earth.An ancient culture.
占世界总人口数的三分之一 它有着古老的文化
The world's largest economy.
是世界上最大的经济体
Yet closed to outsiders for centuries.
闭关锁国的政策已持续了几个世纪
Those barriers will soon be brought down by a flower.
这些障碍即将被一种花所摧毁
December 12th, 1838.Canton, Southern China.A dead man walking.
1838年十二月十二日 在中国南部的城市 广州 一个死刑犯正走向刑场
Sentenced to die by strangulation.British merchants look on.
他被判处绞刑 几个英国商人看到了
What they do next will help trigger a war.
随后他们所做的事情将会引发一场战争
and bring a seismic shift in the balance of power From east to west.
带来东西方均势上的 巨变
A war fought over the most lucrative commodity On the planet:Opium.
这场战争事关争夺地球上最具暴利的商品: 鸦片
