Many people think that the Industrial Revolution was the first time people began to have a major effect on the earth's ecology.

VOA: special.2011.04.26

Already by 1825--that early the South was the world's largest supplier of cotton and fueling now this Industrial Revolution in textile production in Great Britain and other places.

截至1825年,南方是全世界,最大的棉花供应者并且促进着,在英国和其他国家的,纺织工业的发展

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

This is important in terms of political outcomes, and also important in the case of England/Britain in what we've come to call the Industrial Revolution, which I will talk about at another time.

这对于政策制定非常重要,它的重要性还体现在,我们所说的在英国发生的工业革命,我们以后会继续讨论

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

In the eighteen fifties, America's industrial revolution was just beginning.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

Pahvan Sukdhev says that the change called for is in scale similar to the industrial revolution, but with a heightened sense of urgency, because of the threat of climate change.

VOA: standard.2010.02.24