英国最长的人造水道，利兹-利物浦运河，构建于1770年和1816年之间，曾为运输煤炭，石灰石，羊毛，棉花，谷物和其他农产品的干道。
The Leeds and Liverpool Canal, Britain's longest man-made waterway, was constructed between 1770 and 1816 and carried coal, limestone, wool, cotton, grain and other farm produce.
马铃薯导致了英国《谷物法》的废除，从而推动了自由贸易—而这也促成了1843年《经济学家》的创立。
The potato promoted free trade by contributing to the abolition of Britain's Corn Laws—the cause which prompted the founding of The Economist in 1843.
《谷物法》限制粮食进口到英国以保护国内的小麦生产商。
The Corn Laws restricted imports of grain into the United Kingdom in order to protect domestic wheat producers.
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