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 人们用破布或碎布包裹 在当地织厂很容易得到。

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，这一切都归功于厂和场。

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

以我们的厂、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，一个厂工人的家庭。

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、厂、工厂制度、生产线，是如何波及全球每一个角落的？

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岁的年买下了一家旧油厂，并将其改造成了一家厂。

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厂飞行。

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

yeah, 她12岁就在一家织厂找到了工作，他们称之为织布厂，也就是厂。

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，你就能看到一些曾经是厂的破旧建筑。

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

我的意思是，我们在约克郡有铁厂，在威尔士有煤，在兰开夏郡有厂。

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.

我对兰开夏郡的织厂了解甚多，而他们对此几乎一无所知。

Four big cotton mills — those are the main ones.

四大厂——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，2030年代，日本在华厂支付的工资高于国厂，但日资厂每单位产出的劳动力成本较低，因为它们的人均产出较高。