The cotton mills of England were standing idle and the workers were starving, and any blockader who could outwit the Yankee fleet could command his own price in Liverpool.

英国的纺厂正在那里停工待料，工人在挨饿，所以每个穿过了北方佬舰队的封锁线商人都可以随心所欲地要高价呢。

Traditionally wrapped in scraps of cloth... Or as they're called up there, rags...That were easily available from the region's cotton mills.

传统上 人布或碎布包裹 在当地纺织厂很容易得到。

Sleepy medieval market towns found themselves transformed into smoggy metropolises  by cotton mills and mining.

那些昏昏欲睡的中世纪市场小镇发现自己变成了烟雾弥漫的大都市，这切都归功于纺厂和矿场。

Take our cotton mills, our pulp mills, our harness factories, our mattress factories.

以我的纺厂、纸浆厂、马具厂和床垫厂为例。

Keith Dewhurst was born in Oldham to a family of cotton mill workers.

基思·德沃hurst出生于奥德姆，个纺厂工人的家庭。

How did the inventions and the upheavals here, the coal mines, the cotton mills, the factory systems, the production lines, how did those ripple out to touch every corner of the globe?

这里的发明与动荡，煤矿、纺厂、工厂制度、生产线，是如何波及全球每个角落的？

In 1868, after learning from his time working in his father's banking firm, a 29-year-old TATA bought an old oil mill and converted it into a cotton mill.

1868年，贾姆谢特吉·塔塔在父亲的银行工作后，以29岁的年纪买下了家旧油厂，并将其改造成了家纺厂。

Soon these processes were mechanized using water power, until the steam engine came along to make flying shuttles really fly in these huge cotton mills.

很快这些过程就通过水力实现了机械化，直到蒸汽机的出现让飞梭真正在这些巨大的纺厂中飞行。

Yeah, she got a job at 12 at a fabric factory, textile mill, that's what they call it, cotton mill.

yeah, 她12岁就在家纺织厂找到了工作，他称之为织布厂，也就是纺厂。

If you drive around enough, you can actually see some of these dilapidated buildings that used to be cotton mills.

如果你开车四处转转，你就能看到些曾经是纺厂的旧建筑。

I mean, we had iron works in Yorkshire and then coal mines in Wales and cotton mills in Lancashire.

我的意思是，我在约克郡有铁厂，在威尔士有煤矿，在兰开夏郡有纺厂。

The quiet, former cotton mill community 30 miles from South Carolina's capital, Columbia, saw its Walmart open in 1998.

距离南卡罗来纳州首府哥伦比亚 30 英里的安静的前纺厂社区见证了其沃尔玛于 1998 年开业。

I knew more about the cotton mills of Lancashire than they even began to understand and about.

我对兰开夏郡的纺织厂了解甚多，而他对此几乎无所知。

Four big cotton mills — those are the main ones.

四大纺厂——那些是主要的。

For example, Japanese-owned cotton mills in China during the 1930s paid higher wages than Chinese-owned cotton mills there, but the Japanese-run mills had lower labor costs per unit of output because they had higher output per worker.

例如，20世纪30年代，日本在华纺厂支付的工资高于中国纺厂，但日资纺厂每单位产出的劳动力成本较低，因为它的人均产出较高。