习惯上，这种转变被称为“产业革命”。

This transformation is customarily called the Industrial Revolution.

的确，英国曾经是“产业革命”的诞生地、号称“世界的制造车间”、殖民地遍布全球的雄伟帝国。

Britain was, of course, the birthplace of the industrial revolution, "the workshop of the world" and an imperial power whose colonies stretched around the globe.