来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：美国内战与重建1845-1877 第2集 第2集》

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  Now think of another product in American history
  思考下在美国历史中有没有另一种产品曾
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  that doubled every decade for four decades,
  有如此辉煌的成就
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  and then imagine that that product became the country's,
  那么这个产品将毫无疑问地
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  without question, absolute largest export.
  成为美国最大的出口产品
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  General Motors at its height,
  即使是通用汽车鼎盛时期
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  when I was growing up in Flint, Michigan, in boom times,
  那时我还是个孩子生活在密歇根的弗林特
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  would've wished it could've said that.
  也没能有如此辉煌的成绩
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  Already by 1825--that early
  截至1825年
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  the South was the world's
  南方是全世界
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  largest supplier of cotton and fueling now
  最大的棉花供应者并且促进着
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  this Industrial Revolution in textile production
  在英国和其他国家的
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  in Great Britain and other places.
  纺织工业的发展