It started, as we have said, on September 4, 1882, supplying about four hundred lights to a comparatively small number of customers. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
We had customers in all the little towns in south-west Wisconsin, south-east Minnesota and north-east Iowa. 尤利西斯·格兰特.U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
So well had the work been planned and executed, however, that nothing happened to hinder the continuous working of the station and the supply of light to customers. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
Think of what I have to provide for calling customers, my dear! 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
Each tradesman or artificer derives his subsistence from the employment, not of one, but of a hundred or a thousand different customers. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
Seeing the need for some means of increasing the demand for honey, a small honey business was started to dispose of the product of customers who had no market. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
I do; especially when I've customers like you to deal with. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.简·爱.
The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman, is not that of his corporation, but that of his customers. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
It was a blessing for a commerce-loving country to be overrun by such an army of customers: and to have such creditable warriors to feed. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
A particular banker lends among his customers his own promissory notes, to the extent, we shall suppose, of a hundred thousand pounds. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
In requiring frequent and regular repayments from all their customers, the banking companies of Scotland had probably this advantage in view. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
He cannot be their merchant, nor they his customers; and they are all of them thus mutually less serviceable to one another. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
The moment Madame Defarge took up the rose, the customers ceased talking, and began gradually to drop out of the wine-shop. 查尔斯·狄更斯.双城记.
Morgan, whose firm was one of the first customers, expressed to Mr. Edison some doubt as to the accuracy of the meter. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
And so much time was saved on this one application that customers soon began applying it to other kinds of work in their offices. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
If he attempts to sell them much dearer, he is likely to have so few customers, that his circumstances will not be much mended. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
Our customers over there, seem not to be able to confide their property to us fast enough. 查尔斯·狄更斯.双城记.
Again: Tellson's was a munificent house, and extended great liberality to old customers who had fallen from their high estate. 查尔斯·狄更斯.双城记.
We put many customers on, but did not make out many bills. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
This free competition, too, obliges all bankers to be more liberal in their dealings with their customers, lest their rivals should carry them away. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
He did not want his customers to count the heart-beats of the engine in the flicker of the lamp. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
There were a few customers, drinking or not drinking, standing or seated, sprinkled about. 查尔斯·狄更斯.双城记.
The banks, when their customers apply to them for money, generally advance it to them in their own promissory notes. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
Current at first was supplied free to customers for approximately five months, which speaks quite as much for Edison’s Scotch canniness as for his inventive genius. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
I'll be able to talk art with your customers. 欧内斯特·海明威.永别了,武器.
The Bell Company was panic-stricken, for their customers demanded a telephone as good as Edison’s. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
Our waste goes into the best of company, sir, on her rosy-cheeked little customers. 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
A tradesman in London is obliged to hire a whole house in that part of the town where his customers live. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
We have already mentioned how an electrical engineer, shortly after placing irons in the homes of his customers, followed them with a number of small stoves and ovens. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
I know of no way at present; but I will hang them on the wall of the shop, and perhaps some of my customers will see them and ask about them. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.