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下面这段词句比较复杂，同学们要确保自己真正看懂看透，要理解长句的结构，要认识每一个词和词语(我配上译文，以便大家自我检测理解是对还是不对，尤其带色部分和划线部分)。 其实，后面命题者所设计的阅读题就是考查考生们是否能看懂这一部分。 The growth of the limited liability company and municipal business had important consequences. Such large，impersonal manipulation of capital and industry greatly increased the numbers and importance of shareholders as a class，an element in national life representing irresponsible wealth detached from the land and the duties of the landowners; and almost equally detached from the responsible management of business. All through the nineteenth century，America，Africa，India，Australia and parts of Europe were being developed by British capital，and British shareholders were thus enriched by the worlds movement towards industrialization. Towns like Bournemouth and Eastbourne sprang up to house large comfortable classes who had retired on their incomes，and who had no relation to the rest of the community except that of drawing dividends and occasionally attending a shareholders meeting to dictate their orders to the management. On the other hand shareholding meant leisure and freedom which was used by many of the later Victorians for the highest purpose of a great civilization. | 
