Four big cotton mills — those are the main ones.

四大棉纺厂——那些是主要的。

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 在当地纺织厂很容易得到。

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

以我们的棉纺厂、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.

沉睡的中世集镇在棉纺厂和业的推动下，摇身一变成为烟雾缭绕的大都市。

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，在兰开夏郡有棉纺厂。

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

所有这些都是山谷工业历史的遗迹，当时山谷里到处都是棉纺厂。

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 英里的安静的前棉纺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了机械化，直到蒸汽机的出梭真正在这些巨大的棉纺厂中行。

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.

英国的棉纺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，并将其改造成棉纺厂。

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30年代，日本在华棉纺厂支付的工资高于中国棉纺厂，但日资棉纺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。