Brindley was known as a very, very fast driver 众所周知,布林德利是个喜欢飞车的人。
Like Brindley, they often had little education, and in fact school education as it then was could only dull an inventive mind. 同布林德雷一样,他们一般都没有受过什么教育。事实上,以后的学校教育也只能窒息人的创造性。
Brindley worked, for example, to improve the grinding of flints, which were used in the rising pottery industry. 例如,布林德雷努力改进燧石的研磨过程,燧石是新兴陶瓷工业使用的材料。
MS Brindley says: "I regard this as public investment in the future economy rather than public expenditure that should be squeezed." 布林德利表示:“我把这视为对未来经济的公共投资,而非应被压缩的公共支出。”
The two institutions have a very friendly rivalry, says Lynne Brindley, the British Library's chief executive, who was in a group that visited SIBL a few years ago before deciding to bring the concept to London. 大英图书馆首席执行官琳内•布林德利(LynneBrindley)表示,两家图书馆是非常友好的竞争对手。布林德利几年前曾随团参观科学、行业和商业图书馆,之后决定将这一理念引入伦敦。
"This is one strand of the institution that has moved on," Ms Brindley says. "It is labouring to be totally relevant to the 21st century." “这是我们工作的一条主线,”布林德利表示,“辛勤工作对于21世纪非常重要。”
James Brindley of Staffordshire started his self-made career in1773 by working at mill wheels, at the age of seventeen, having been born poor in a village. 一七七三年,他十七岁,就着手改良磨坊的车轮,从而开始了他那自我奋斗的生涯。
Brindley had begun on his own account, out of interest, to survey the waterways that he traveled as he went about his engineering projects for mills and mines. 布林斯雷在为他的磨坊和矿井建筑工程到处奔走的时候,出于自愿和兴趣,对沿途经过的河道进行了勘察。
Last year, Chief Executive Dame Brindley attended the centennial celebration of the National Library of China. 双方的交流与互访非常密切,去年下半年,布林德利馆长应邀参加了中国国家图书馆百年馆庆纪念活动。