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基本解释

He didn't seem to cotton on to me then.
当时他似乎并不喜欢我。
It took her some time to cotton on to what he meant.
她花了一些时间去领会他的意思。
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One day, Tom's father asked him to help him carry some cotton on the donkey to sell on the market.
一天，父亲让汤姆帮他把一些棉花放在驴子上去市场上卖。

They say the population increases are related to drops in insecticide use on the cotton crop.
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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Today,Fasotex only prints designs on fabric, it does not turn the raw cotton into cloth like it used to.

Unless cotton prices fall, many of the apparel retailers in the U.S. are expected to pass the increased cotton costs on to consumers in the form of higher retail prices.
FORBES: Cotton Prices Won't Ground American Eagle Long-Term