It's about a wife and mother who discovers that her mill owner husband Philip has fathered an illegitimate child.

讲的是一个妻子 也是一个母亲 发现自己的磨坊主丈夫菲利普有一个私生子。

The tariff, they contended, raised the price of the goods they had to buy and was thus in fact a tribute laid on them for the benefit of the Northern mill owners.

他们争辩说，关税提高了他们必须购买的商品的价格， 因此实际上是为了北方工厂所有者的利益而对他们征收的关税。

In 1832, the year of Jackson's second triumph, the British Parliament passed its first reform bill, which conferred the ballot—not on workingmen as yet—but on mill owners and shopkeepers whom the landlords regarded with genuine horror.

1832 年， 即杰克逊第二次获胜的那一年，英国议会通过了第一项改革法案，该法案将投票权授予了——当时还不是工人——而是地主们真正恐惧的磨坊主和店主。