Industrial Revolution, agricultural Revolution, and the growth of cities,

工业革命农业革命和城市发展
are very much tied together.

紧紧联系在一起
Let me give you an example, which you certainly don't have to remember.

我给你们举个例子用不着记下来
Think of Manchester.

想想曼彻斯特
I describe the statistics in there,

我讲过那里的统计数字
that the growth of Manchester is a prodigious, scary thing.

曼彻斯特的发展是惊人的恐怖的
I'll talk more about how rural and urban elites

我后面会谈到农村和城市里的上层人士
are frightened by the growth of cities, particularly in Germany,

被城市扩张吓得要死特别是在德国
but in France, England, and in the United States, later.

还有法国英国以及后来的美国
What the growth of Manchester does is it really changes

曼彻斯特的发展真正改变了
the countryside around and helps bring the Agricultural revolution.

周边农村的面貌引起了农业革命
What do I mean by that?

我说这话的意思是什么呢