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 人们用破布或碎布包裹 在当地纺织很容易得到。

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，这一切都归功于棉纺和矿场。

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

以我们的棉纺、纸浆、和床垫为例。

Four big cotton mills — those are the main ones.

四大棉纺——那些是主要的。

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

基思·德沃hurst出生于奥德姆，一个棉纺工人的家庭。

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

我对兰开夏郡的棉纺织了解多，而他们对此几乎一无所知。

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

我的意思是，我们在约克郡有铁，在威尔士有煤矿，在兰开夏郡有棉纺。

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

距离南卡罗首府哥伦比亚 30 英里的安静的前棉纺社区见证了其沃尔玛于 1998 年开业。

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

yeah, 她12岁就在一家纺织找到了工作，他们称之为织布，也就是棉纺。

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，你就能看到一些曾经是棉纺的破旧建筑。

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.

英国的棉纺正在那里停工待料，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。

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棉纺中飞行。

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岁的年纪买下了一家旧油，并将其改造成了一家棉纺。

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、棉纺、工制度、生产线，是如何波及全球每一个角落的？

London's financial sector may contribute only a few percentage points of Britain's total economic output, but it defines the country, and its sense of prosperity, in much the same way that cotton mills and trading ships once did.

伦敦金融区的贡献或许只占英国经济总量中很小一部分。但是，就像曾经的纺织磨坊与贸易船只一样，它是大英帝国的标志，繁荣的象征。

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，日本在华棉纺支付的工资高于中国棉纺，但日资棉纺每单位产出的劳动力成本较低，因为它们的人均产出较高。