Though he was profoundly impressed by his first sight of a Bessemer converter, he had little interest in the every-day process of making steel.

尽管他第一眼看到贝塞麦转炉就给他留下了深刻的印象，但他对炼钢的日常过程却没什么兴趣。

But these, and a hundred other places located along the Atlantic coast, could not have produced ore in quantities sufficient to satisfy the yawning jaws of the Bessemer converters.

但是这些以及位于大西洋沿岸的其他一百个地方不可能生产出足够数量的矿石来满足贝塞麦转换器张开的大嘴。