They're not like other immigrants, who can be pretty thick,” said Riccardo Marini, a textile manufacturer and the head of the Prato branch of Confindustria, the Italian industrialists' organization.

说这话的是里卡多•马里尼，一位纺织品厂家的老板，兼意大利实业家组织(Confindustria)在普拉多分部的头。

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Joseph Marie Jacquard created a device which could be affixed to looms, which used a pattern of holes, much like early computer punched CARDS, to direct the textile design.

Joseph Marie Jacquard创造了一种可以附加在织布机上的设备，它使用一个打孔模式(很像早期计算机的穿孔卡片)编织图案。

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But textile technologists like Kevin Flurry, have found a way of layering conductive and insulating fabrics to do the same job.

但是纺织技术专家凯文·弗来瑞，已经找到了一种方法来把布纤维按导电的和绝缘的进行分层来完成同一个工作。

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Moreover, the global marketplace has displaced once steady jobs like seamstresses and textile workers.

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Tom Quantrill(ph) says there are tens of thousands of people just like Jennings, former textile workers now making more in high-tech factories.

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There's something like 600, 000 American textile workers looking for jobs.

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