The steel automobile has long since supplanted the wooden carriage; the steel ship has displaced the iron and wooden vessel.
钢制汽车早已取代了木头马车。钢船取代了铁木船。
大商业时代
The man who first suggested that so commonplace a substance as air, blown upon molten pig iron, would produce the intensest heat and destroy its impurities, made possible our steel railroads, our steel ships, and our steel cities.