People have a little more fondness for the old ties to Russia.

人们更喜欢往日与俄罗斯的关系。

In the development of the corporation there was to be observed a distinct severing of the old ties between master and workmen, which existed in the days of small industries.

——在公司的发展过程中，可以观察到在小工业时代存在的师傅和工人之间旧有的纽带明显断裂。