if it weren’t for A，B couldn’t have taken place/ happened.如果不是A，B就不会发生
It’s true that the industrial revolution couldn’t have taken place if it weren’t for such new sources of powers as steam engines and coal.
on a large scale大规模地
Before the industrial revolution，people made goods to sell in small workshops，often in their own homes but enormous new machines were being created in the 19th century that could produce goods faster and on a larger scale.
stagecoach驿站马车；cart =carriage马车
stock a place with sth在某处存放某物
My son stocks his study with an assortment of candies.
cutlery餐具，不可数；convenience，便利设施，可数；necessity，必需品，可数
Because of the Industrial Revolution, all sorts of things that had previously been luxuries—from sugar to cutlery—became conveniences and before long they turned into necessities: life without sugar or cutlery was unimaginable.
