Say only ， “It is here.”“ But when did “here” begin? When didi Bacon's ideology become a reality? When, to use Siegfried Gidion's phrase, did mechanization take command? To be cautious about it, we might locate the emergence of the first true technocracy in England in the latter half of the eighteenth century - let us say with James Watt's invention of the steam engine in 1765. From that time forward, a decade did not pass without the invention of some significant machinery which, taken together, put and end to medieval "manufacture" (which once meant "to make by hand"). The practical energy and technical skills unleashed at this time changed forever the material and psychic nvironment of the Western world.
你只需说：“它在这里。”但“它”是何时到达的？培根的意识形态是何时成为现实的？借用西格弗里德·吉迪恩的话说，机械化是何时挂帅的？为审慎起见，我们不妨把英国真正的技术统治时代确定在18世纪后期，比如确定在詹姆斯·瓦特发明蒸汽机的1765年。自此，每隔10年就会涌现出一些重要的机械发明，这些发明合在一起结束了中世纪的“手工制造”业。这个时代释放的实用能量和工艺技能永远改变了西方世界的物质环境和心理环境。
#Vocabulary#
An ideology is a set of opinions or beliefs of a group or an individual. Very often ideology refers to a set of political beliefs or a set of ideas that characterize a particular culture.
Capitalism, communism, socialism, and Marxism are ideologies. But not all -ism words are. Think: cronyism (a system of graft whereby friends unfairly help each other make money.) Our English noun is from French idéologie. The suffix –logy, used with many English words describing theories or doctrines, is from Greek logos "word, reason, speech, account."
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