The cotton is harvested by hand or industrial machines and transported to textile factories where it's spun into yarn.

棉花是以手工或机器收割，再运到工成纱。

Marx's father was a Jewish lawyer and turned Christian; Engels's a prosperous Protestant cotton-mill owner.

马克思的父亲是一名犹太人律师，后来改宗，成为基督徒；恩格斯的父亲则是一位信奉新教的成功的工主。

It was weaving, big mills, weaving mills.

那是，大工，。

All of this created increased demand for the uniforms being produced at textile factories such as those run by Boss at Metzingen.

所有这些都增加了对工（例如麦琴根 Boss 经营的工）生产的制服的需求。

But in the past few months it has taken a harder line and pressed on with pollution controls, hitting coalminers, cement-makers, paper mills, chemical factories, textile firms and more.

但在过去几个月里，政府采取了更强硬的手段，坚定实施治污措施，煤矿、水泥、造纸、化工、等都受到了冲击。

In addition to increasing the demand for uniforms produced at textiles factories such as that run by Boss in Metzingen, the changing war situation had a major impact as well on the German economy.

除了增加对麦琴根 Boss 经营的工生产的制服的需求外，不断变化的战争局势也对德国经济产生了重大影响。

What would you say were the key differences between investing in, maybe, a factory that's going to manufacture textiles, versus being one of the investment groups you told us about earlier that are funding these whaling expeditions?

您认为投资一家可能会生产品的工与您之前告诉我们的为这些捕鲸探险提供资金的投资集团之一之间的主要区别是什么？