He first built a navy on rivers using Dutch shipmasters from amsterdam.

他先找荷兰造船师在河流上建了支海军

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But their lives and interests were far, far away from that economic large machine, which was Amsterdam.

但是他们的生活方式和利益,与机器大生产的,阿姆斯特丹相去甚远

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