that is, the trains help encourage investment

铁路激发了投资
because people can see trains,

因为人们可以看到火车
they can ride trains,

可以驾驭火车
and they look like something that's going to lead France into this new,

就好像他们能把法国引领到一个全新的
brand new industrial world,

全新的工业世界
and so that helps accentuate the number of people

这使得有钱投资
who have something to invest, investing in railroads.

又把钱投到铁路上的人数激增
As a matter of fact,

事实上
one of the things that probably hurts French industry

在这段时期中
during exactly the period we're talking about,

也就是十九世纪七八十年代和九十年代初期
that is the 1870s, '80s and the early 1890s,

有一件事可能会影响法国的工业发展
is the fact that French capitalists begin investing in railroads,

就是法国资本家们开始投资铁路