Andrew, who had never before failed to be at the school door before the first tap of the bell, began to despair.

从来都是在第一遍钟声响起前踏进校门的安德鲁现在开始感到绝望了。

If the spirit of enterprise that first tapped the power of fossil fuels in the Industrial Revolution is to survive, the states in which it has most prospered must prove those attitudes wrong.

如果在工业革命中率先利用化石燃料的企业精神要生存下去，那么，在化石燃料最繁荣的国家，必须证明这些态度是错误的。