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What makes it especially English ? Obviously , it began in England. England was already the leading ,manufacturing nation . But the manufacture was cottage industry , and the Industrial Revolution begins in the village . The men who make it are craftsmen:

The country was a place where men worked from dawn to dark , and the labourer lived not in the sun , but in poverty and darkness. What aids there were to lighten labour were immemorial , like the mill, which was already ancient in Chaucer’s time. The Indus

有一次，在拥挤的车厢门口，我听见一位男乘客客客气气地问他前面的一位女乘客：”您下车吗？“女乘客没有理他。”你下车吗 ？“他又问了一遍。女乘客还是没有理他。”下车吗 ？“他耐不住了，发声大问，那位女乘客依然没反应。”你是聋子，还是哑巴 ？“他急了，捅了一下那位女乘客，也引得车厢里的人都往这里看。女乘客这时也急了，瞪起一双眼睛回手给了男乘客一拳。Once I heard a male customer politely ask a female customer who stood before him in

‘This is for you,’ Bill Morrow heard on many occasions he would never forget ——such as when he was taken in a boat down the Grand Canal and every boat that passed sounded its siren in salutation . Or when he was shown over the great Nanjing bridge, built

A number of writers have raised questions about the desirability of faster economic growth as an end itself , at least in the wealthier industrialized countries . Yet faster growth does mean more wealth , and to most people the desirability of wealth is be

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