Making and installing them was the business of the Detroit workshop that he joined at the age of sixteen.
当他十六岁在底特律的工作间做事时,制造和安装发动机就成了他的工作。
A chance meeting with an old co-worker led to a job for Henry as an engineer at the Edison Detroit Electricity Company, the leading force in another new industry.
由于一次偶然的机会,亨利遇到了一位原来的同事,这得以使他在爱迪生底特律电力公司谋到一份工程师的工作,该公司属另一新兴行业的中坚。
The man on the radio says that much of the east coast is destroyed, along with Detroit and Chicago.
收音机上的男人说,东海岸的很多地方遭到破坏,连同底特律和芝加哥。
It was near dusk, and she and her husband, Steve, were trucking through northern Kentucky hauling auto parts from Louisville to Detroit for a freight company.
已近黄昏,她和她丈夫史蒂夫的卡车正穿越北肯塔基州,他们为一个货运公司用卡车将汽车零件从路易斯维尔市运至底特律。
Mr Moroun has grown quite wealthy thanks to the bridge, which he has owned through the Detroit International bridge Company since 1979.
莫罗恩的底特律国际桥梁公司自1979年拥有了这座桥梁,这让他成了一个非常富有的人。
He came back to seat 19a on the flight from Amsterdam, Netherlands, to Detroit just minutes before landing, complaining of a stomachache and asking for a blanket.
从荷兰阿姆斯特丹起飞前往底特律的航班上,他在飞机降落前几分钟回到19a座,边抱怨着胃痛边要了一条毛毯。
In Washington itself, the percentage of notes with cocaine residue reached 93%, a prevalence almost matched by other urban areas such as Boston, Detroit and Baltimore.
在华盛顿,沾染可卡因的美钞比例达到93%,而其它城区如波士顿、底特律和巴尔的摩大,也几乎与之并驾齐驱。
After seeing photos of the formerly prosperous North American town of Detroit in 2005, they realised it would be a perfect place to work.
在看了2005年曾经繁荣过的北美城市底特律的许多照片后,他们认为这将是个绝妙的工作地点。
She grew up in a wealthy suburb of Detroit in Michigan and did well at school.
她在密歇根底特律一个富裕的郊区长大,在学校表现也很好。
But the question that keeps Detroit workers and executives up at night is: What do we do next?
但底特律工人和管理人员夜不能寐的问题是:我们究竟接下来该怎么办?
The UAW has been on the right side of the Detroit bankruptcy drama all along.
汽车工人联合会自始至终站在底特律破产这场戏剧的正确一边。
So Detroit today is announcing a big plan, shutting down more than 40 of its schools.
所以,今天底特律宣布了一个很大的计划,关闭超过40所学校。
Detroit is the book's prime example of decline.
底特律是书中主要的城市衰弱的例子。