邮递很慢，而电报是昂贵的。

The post was slow, and the telegraph was expensive.

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美国电话电报公司经常被作为一个公司的黄金标准，该公司决定进行大规模的再培训计划，而不是采取裁员和再雇佣的策略。

AT&T is often given as the gold standard of a company who decided to do a massive reskilling program rather than go with a fire and hire strategy.

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可是机器便随着铁路而进入到园圃之中，使世界变小的电报、泾渭分明的道路、规划整齐的农场和工业化的农业。

But the machine quickly moved into the garden with the railway, the world-shrinking telegraph, grid-straight roads, farm boundaries and industrialised agriculture.

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