As Morgan's personal fortune grew, so did his clout as a Captain of Industry.

随着摩根个人财富的增长，他作为工业巨头的影响力也在增加。

The lesson here, understood by these captains of industry, is that failure equals learning.

此处所讲的这些工业巨头领悟到的教训就是失败等于学习。

But more money may be made serving the captains of industry rather than industry itself.

然而，服务其他行业的巨头们似乎能比从事该行业本身得到更多的利益。

Regardless of where you stand on modern-day captains of industry, the landscape looks nothing like it did 150 years ago.

无论你站在当今工业巨头的哪个位置，现在的情况都与150年前完全不同。

They write of the " romance of invention" and the " captains of industry."

他们写下了“发明的传奇” 和“工业领袖” 。

The chief goal of this effort was high profits for the captains of industry, on the one hand;and high wages for the workers, on the other.

这项努力的主要目标一方面是工业巨头的高利润，另一方面是工人的高工资。

Perhaps if we see fewer hagiographies about male executives and tycoons, we might begin to hold them to the same standards we seem to hold female captains of industry to.

或许，如果我们看到更少的关于男性高管和大亨的传记，我们可能会开始像对待女性工业领袖一样对待他们。

Presidents, prime ministers, military commanders, and even royalty are usually the ones believers point to, though captains of industry, such as billionaire tycoons and well-respected scientists, are also on that list.

总统、总理、军事指挥官，甚至皇室成员通常是信徒所指的人， 尽管工业巨头， 如亿万富翁大亨和备受尊敬的科学家， 也在这个名单上。

As the surplus grew and specialization increased, so did inequality, with factory workers spending 12 hour days on one end, and incredibly wealthy “captains of industry” making enormous profits on the other.

随着盈余的增长和专业化程度的提高， 不平等也在加剧， 工厂工人一方面每天工作 12 小时，另一方面极其富有的“工业领袖” 赚取巨额利润。

Tested by figures of production, King Cotton had shriveled by 1860 to a petty prince in comparison, for each year the captains of industry turned out goods worth nearly twenty times all the bales of cotton picked on Southern plantations.

通过生产数据的检验，相比之下， 棉花大王到 1860 年已经缩水为一个小王子，工业巨头每年生产的商品价值几乎是南方种植园采摘的所有棉花包的 20 倍。