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工业革命改变了英国社会的整体结构。 The industrial revolution modified the whole structure of English society. | ||
麦克法兰早就想知道工业革命是如何发生的。 Macfarlane had wondered for a long time how the Industrial Revolution came about. | ||
几百年前始于欧洲的工业革命现在正向全世界扩散。 The industrial revolution, which started a couple of hundred years ago in Europe, is now spreading across the world. | ||
工业革命初期，荷兰织布机和长袜针织机最先出现在伦敦。 At the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, Dutch looms and the stocking knitting frame were first pioneered in London. | ||
这是在工业革命之前，所以没有诸如此类的纺纱，就不会有织物。 This was before the industrial revolution and so without all that spinning, there would have been no fabric. | ||
我们认为，首次要求彻底改革的呼声直到工业革命时期才出现。 We observe that the first calls for radical transformation did not begin until the period of the industrial revolution. | ||
那么，为什么工业革命发生在英国而不是在中国的长江流域呢？ So why did the industrial revolution begin in Britain and not along the Yangzi river? | ||
棉花在历史上最重要的意义是它在工业革命中所起的作用。 The most important thing about cotton in history is the part that it played in the Industrial Revolution. | ||
主编克里斯·安德森（canderson@wired.com）曾在02年第18期刊物上写过新工业革命方面的文章。 Editor in chief Chris Anderson (canderson@wired.com) wrote about the new industrial revolution in issue 18.02. | ||
如果茶叶是解开密码锁的要素的话，为什么在一次茶叶起着重要作用的工业革命中，日本本身并没有取得进展呢？ If tea is a factor in the combination lock, why didn't Japan forge ahead in a tea-soaked industrial revolution of its own? | ||
