Four big cotton mills — those are the main ones.

四大棉厂——那些主要的。

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 在当地织厂很容易得到。

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

以我们的棉厂、纸浆厂、马具厂和床垫厂为例。

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

沉睡的中世纪集镇发现自己因棉厂和采矿业而变成了烟雾弥漫的大都市。

These cotton mills were big and flourishing and most of the workers in the town were very poor.

这些棉厂很大而且很繁荣，镇上的大多数工人都很穷。

All of them are remnants of the industrial past of the valley when it was full of cotton mills.

所有这些都山谷工业历史的遗迹，当时山谷里到处都棉厂。

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 英里的安静的前棉厂社区见证了其沃尔玛于 1998 年开业。

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，直到蒸汽机的出现真正在这些巨大的棉厂中行。

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。

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，29 岁的 TATA 吸取了他在父亲银行公司工作的经历后，买下了一家旧油厂，并将其改造成棉厂。

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，就像曾经的织磨坊与贸易船只一样，它大英帝国的标志，繁荣的象征。