No continent, you could argue, had ever been quite made readymade if you want--for railroads quite like North America.

没有哪个大陆,你可以为此争辩,像北美这样,及其适合铁路的发展

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Readymade, factory-made cloth for a woman, a housewife, who isn't making her own cloth anymore.

他们向家庭主妇们推销工厂生产的服装,她们再不用手工自制衣服了

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The vast multitudes were still farmers, but they began to now buy goods, manufactured goods, readymade clothing and shoes, cloth, candles, soap, all kinds of foodstuffs.

他们中的大多数人仍是农民,但是他们开始购买商品,工业制成品,成衣和鞋,布料,蜡烛,肥皂,各种各类的食品

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