筛米法案
1680年曼哈顿出台的一个法案,旨在垄断当地面粉生产权利。
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不知道LZ为什么想起来这样一个词,呵呵,着实难为了一阵子。不过我想这跟范老师的跑跑事件没有多大关系。
Andros did many things for the general good. When he had been Governor
four years, and when the most important product of trade was flour, a
law was made by which no one was permitted to make flour outside of the
city. This was called the Bolting Act. Flour cannot be made unless it
is "bolted"--or has the bran taken from it--and so the act came by its
name. The right to grind all the grain into flour may not now seem very
important, but it really was, for it brought all the trade to the city.
So you see the Bolting Act was a very good thing for the city, and very
bad for the people who did not live in the city. The city folks became
very prosperous indeed, but the others, because they could not make or
sell flour, became poorer day by day.