这一产业和初期铁路的建造相伴而生。
The industry is coeval with the construction of the first railways.
维多利亚时代的人是恰当投资铁路的最后一代人。
The Victorians were the last people to invest properly in the railways.
欧洲铁路的生产率也有了显著提高,尽管程度较小。
Europe's railways have also shown marked, albeit smaller, productivity improvements.
The great American railroads were built by and large, for decades, by government subsidies, and a tremendous amount of corruption.
这几十年间,美国伟大铁路建起来了,这当然是是通过政府的支助,以及伴随着数不清的行贿受贿
They were the same size in the 1850s, but Brive gets the railroad and not Tulle, the railroad from Paris.
它们在十九世纪五十年代还是一样大的,但是布瑞福修了铁路,而不是图勒,通往巴黎的铁路
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
应用推荐