That evening, as he walked by the docks, a slip of a boy came up and asked where he was stabling his horse.

那天晚上，他正走在码头边，一个瘦得像纸片的男孩走上前来，问他把马放在哪个马厩。

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The expansion of colonial shipping in turn accelerated urbanization by creating a need for centralized docks, warehouses, and repair shops in the colonies.

殖民地航运业的扩张反过来又加速了城市化进程，因为殖民地需要集中的码头、仓库和修理铺。

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By 1981 the docks had, to all intents and purposes, closed.

到1981年，这些码头几乎等于关闭了。

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When the Erie Canal connected the Great Lakes to the shores of Red Hook via the Hudson River in 1825, a new shipping centre was born, and by 1848 more than 800 homes, workers' boarding houses and warehouses had sprung up by the bustling docks.

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John Cory was one of the coal owners responsible for the opening of the Barry docks in 1889 - a direct rival of the nearby Cardiff docks which by the outbreak of World War I had surpassed Cardiff as the county's largest coal exporting port.

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It is also one of the largest container ports in the country, but is not dominated by its docks, and the town has its attractive areas with wide, tree-lined roads leading to the centre.

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