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基本解释

This district grew cotton on a large scale.
这个地区过赴大量种棉花。
First time I ever realized that was while chopping cotton on a farm.
我第一次意识到是我当时在一个农场砍棉花。
To ensure that eyes remain closed, she was taught to place tiny pieces of cotton on the eye and then draw the eyelid down over it.
为了确保死者闭着眼睛，她被教导将小片的纱布贴在死者眼睛上并沿线画出眼睑。瞧！

In two thousand eight, scientists reported on a study of cotton grown in six provinces in northern China.
And 72 hours by train he found himself on a huge cotton plantation, near Pickensville, Alabama, on the in west central Alabama, on the Mississippi border, at 14-years-old.
在搭乘了七十二小时的火车后,他发现自己身处亚拉巴马的皮肯斯维尔附近,一个巨大的棉花种植园中,在亚拉巴马西部的中心,密西西比的边界,那年他仅仅十四岁
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A number of men, as one historian has written, I think quite effectively, "Mounted from log cabin to mansion" and I quote "On a stairway of cotton bales accumulating slaves as they went."
一些人就像一位历史学家写的那样,我觉得非常犀利,引述一段,"小木屋通往大厦的阶梯正是由,奴隶们用棉花包堆积成的"
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The results indicate a sizeable impact of Bt cotton on the yield and value of output under both irrigated and unirrigated conditions.
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