The next few years in farming are going to be about mechanisation.

未来几年农业将转向机械化。

Horses might have fared better had savings from mechanisation stayed in rural areas.

如果机械化带来节余留在了农村，那么马况可能会好一些。

This drop slowed the pace of mechanisation in agriculture, but only by a little.

这减缓了农业机械化，不过作用很小。

The term " automation" first rose to prominence as the adoption of wartime innovations in mechanisation sparked a wave of panic over mass joblessness in the 1950s (see chart 1).

1950 年代，战时机械化创新采用引发了对大规模失业恐慌，“自动化”一词首次受到关注（见图 1）。