Until recently, each of these giant industries was comfortable continuing on its familiar and comfortable nineteenth-century path into the twenty-first century. Each had also succeeded in getting government to insulate it against any need to make fundamental changes.
直到不久前，这三大工业仍然在二十一世纪继续心安理得地沿用十九世纪熟悉的老套路。三大工业也成功获得政府的保护，因此无需进行任何实质性的变革。