Democracy survived the Civil War and the developing industrial leviathan and struggled on into the twentieth century.
民主经历了内战和发展着的庞大工业体系而幸存下来并挣扎进入20世纪。
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Industrial production fell by 2.8% in the year to March, the worst slide since the Second World War.
截至今年3月，过去一年的工业产量下滑了2.8%。这是二战以来最严重的一次下滑。
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In Victorian times, London alone could fulfill this function. (the city funded enterprises all over the world, including much of the industrial development of the U.S. after the Civil War.)