By 1800 more than a thousand steamengines were in use in the British Isles, and Britain retained a virtual monopoly on steam engine production until the 1830s.
到了1800年，一千多台蒸汽机在不列颠群岛运行，直到19世纪30年代，英国一直垄断着蒸汽机的生产。
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The Freudian perspective, in a sense: sees us as "steamengines".
从某种意义上说，弗洛伊德的观点视我们为“蒸汽机”。
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The engine helped solve the problem of draining coal mines of groundwater and increased the production of coal needed to power steamengines elsewhere.