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The Industrial Revolution of the next century required foreign resources; imperialism gave the go-ahead for Britain and other European powers to not only take what they wanted from foreign lands but to lay conquest to those lands as well.（查了词典也没找到相关信息）

译文：由于下一个世纪发生的工业革命需要外国的资源，再加上帝国主义兴盛，使得英国与其它欧洲国家的势力不断对外扩张，不仅竭尽所能地搜刮外国资源，更进一步征服了这些地方。