英語の和訳お願いします。
Their first stop was an upstart city called Manchester.
Early Victorian artists observed it from a safe distance, fascinated but wary, and well they might be.
The safe distance, though, soon disappeared.
Like an invading army, the mills and factories marched across the plain.
The nation was in the grip of the world's first industrial revolution.
It sucked the rural poor into new cities right across the land.
But more than any other, it was Manchester that fired the Victorians' imagination.
It was where you came if you wanted to see the future.
In its dozens of steam-powered cotton mills, the rural immigrants got their first taste of a new world.
The change must have been astonishing - the noise, the energy.
This was a real revolution in the pace of life, a rupture in history.
Places like this would change Britain beyond recognition.
Today, Queen Street Mill is the last of its kind to survive intact.
But the paintings of the time told a quite different story.
Pictures of workers were rare and, frankly, rose-tinted.
These factory girls are having a jolly time buying dresses.
You can hardly see the factory itself.
And here are some workers at a spinning mill on their lunch break.
Unlike some of their real-life counterparts, they all seem to have a full set of fingers.
One does have a bare feet, but look how spotless they are - there's not a speck of dirt on the women, their clothes,
or indeed the entire yard.
Even the chimneys are puttering out genteel little wisps of smoke.
This was art designed to reassure anxious clients.
Wealthy Victorians, the kind who bought paintings, found the new cities deeply unsettling.
Never before had they seen so many people massing together.
Manchester natives must have felt they were being swallowed up by some alien beast.
If you'd been born, say in the 1770s, you began life in a town of about 20,000 people.
By the time you were in your late 20s, the population had trebled.
And if you were lucky enough to make it into your 70s, the city was 15 times larger.
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納得です！fooledの意味と併せて、良く理解できました。ありがとうございます。