In an essay entitled “Making It in America,” the author Adam Davidson relates a joke from cotton country about just how much a modern textile mill has been automated: The average mill has only two employees today, “a man and a dog.
在一篇题为《在美国立足》的文章中，作者亚当·戴维森讲述了一个来自棉花产区的笑话，说明现代纺织厂的自动化程度有多高：如今一家平均的纺织厂只有两名员工，‘一个人和一条狗’。
the shrinkage of textile mills
纺织厂的缩减
Excavations revealed a large number of Minoan-style loom weights, 19 Pavlopetri was a thriving trade center with a 20 textile industry.
发掘揭示了大量米诺斯风格的织布机配重物，19帕夫洛皮特里是一个繁荣的贸易中心，拥有20纺织业。
例句取自历年考研英语真题，翻译为机器生成，仅供学习参考。