Today, a tulip bulb sells for about 50 cents.

今天 一株郁金香球茎售价约为五十美分。

On their dead father's small collection of tulip bulbs.

他们已逝父亲收藏的几株郁金香球茎上。

As weeks of deprivation stretched into months, some resorted to eating tulip bulbs.

随着几周的紧缺变成了几个月，一些人开始吃郁金香的球茎。

And that brought in even more people, desperate to get their hands on a tulip bulb.

而这种行为带来了更多人，他们孤注一掷地想要得到一个郁金香球茎。

Sorry. What am I talking about? The bubble burst and tulip bulbs are now less than a dollar.

抱歉，我在说什么？泡沫破裂，郁金香球茎现在不到一美元。

Today's trade grew from tulip mania, the 17th century economic bubble, when tulip bulbs sold for more than a year's wages.

今天的贸易起源于17世纪经济泡沫时期的郁金香热，当时郁金香球茎的售价超过一年的工资。

I mean, could a single tulip bulb really be worth $50,000?

我的意思是，一个郁金香球茎真的值 50,000 美元吗？

It is estimated that the Dutch produce 4.3 billion tulip bulbs every year.

据估计， 荷兰每年生产 43 亿个郁金香球茎。

You're happy enough to look at tulip bulbs.

你很喜欢看郁金香鳞茎啊。

By some accounts, the price for a single rare type of tulip bulb was equivalent to $50,000.

据一些统计，一株稀有郁金香球茎的价格相当于 50,000 美元。

At one point, a single tulip bulb sold for more than ten times the annual salary of a skilled craftsman.

有一次，一个郁金香球茎的售价是一个熟练工匠年薪的十倍以上。

This is when everyone realizes how crazy it is that they had paid as much for a tulip bulb as, say, a house in Amsterdam.

这时候每个人都意识到他们为郁金香球茎支付的费用与阿姆斯特丹的一所房子一样多是多么疯狂。