They use it for insulation in the walls at the colonial alehouse.

在殖民地酒他们用这个做墙内的隔离层。

It's a usage that still survives in a term like alehouse and steakhouse.

这种用法至今仍存在于“alehouse”（小酒）和“steakhouse”（牛排）词汇中。

It is a losing trade, it is said, which a workman carries on with the alehouse; and the trade which a manufacturing nation would naturally carry on with a wine country, may be considered as a trade of the same nature.

据说，这是一个工人在酒里做的亏本买卖；一个制造业国家自然会与一个葡萄酒国家进行的贸易，可以被认是一种性质相同的贸易。

It is not the multitude of alehouses, to give the must suspicious example, that occasions a general disposition to drunkenness among the common people; but that disposition, arising from other causes, necessarily gives employment to a multitude of alehouses.

举个值得怀疑的例子，并不是酒众多，是引起普通民众普遍酗酒的倾向；但是，由于其他产生的这种倾向，必然会大量的酒提供就业机会。

Mr. Purnell, the miserly magistrate, who was all for cutting down the allowance paid to the poor, or Hicks the Overseer, who was notoriously harsh, or the alehouses, or the Methodists, or what?

珀内尔先生，那个吝啬的地方法官，他全力削减支付给穷人的津贴，或者希克斯监督者，他是出了名的严厉，或者酒，或者卫理公会，或者什么？

I answer, that the trade with the alehouse is not necessarily a losing trade.

我的回答是， 与啤酒屋的交易不一定是亏损交易。

The marriage-bed of James I. of Great Britain, which his queen brought with her from Denmark, as a present fit for a sovereign to make to a sovereign, was, a few years ago, the ornament of an alehouse at Dunfermline.

英国詹姆士一世的婚床是他的女王从丹麦带来的，作适合君主送给君主的礼物，几年前，它还是邓弗姆林一家酒的装饰品。