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。