At the age of sixteen, Lena found work as a dancer at the famous Cotton Club in New York City.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

But his older brother, Joseph, went out to Mississippi and struck it rich in cotton.

但他的哥哥约瑟夫,去了密西西比并且依靠棉花种植致富

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Or was it more the 1830s when you've got this booming cotton production happening finally in Alabama and Mississippi and Louisiana?

又或者是从18世纪30年代起,当阿拉巴马,密西西比和路易斯安那州,的棉花产量大范围高产时吗

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At sixteen,Lena began dancing and singing in the famous Cotton Club in the Harlem area of New York.

VOA: special.2010.05.14

And when he goes picking in the cotton fields, he imagines that he could be a slave.

当他去采棉花的时候，他把自己想象成一个奴隶。

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In two thousand eight, scientists reported on a study of cotton grown in six provinces in northern China.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

The slave trade revolving around tobacco or cotton or coffee or sugar would tend to mix slaves and laborers from different language backgrounds, in part deliberately, so as to avoid the possibility of revolt.

为了获得烟草,棉花,咖啡,或糖块的奴隶交易,会将来自不同语言背景的奴隶,和劳动者们混在一起,这也在某种程度上,谨慎地避免了可能的造反

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They had to work. By the time Sarah was five years old, she was picking cotton in the fields with her family.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

Jefferson Davis is, in fact, a classic example of the cotton boom planter.

实际上,杰斐逊·戴维斯,是棉花种植者暴富的典型例子

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The former cotton picker and beauty technician now was the only licensed black woman pilot in the world.

VOA: special.2011.06.12

Already by 1825--that early the South was the world's largest supplier of cotton and fueling now this Industrial Revolution in textile production in Great Britain and other places.

截至1825年,南方是全世界,最大的棉花供应者并且促进着,在英国和其他国家的,纺织工业的发展

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As a result, the study in China found that the cotton plants could also help protect nearby crops against damage by the insects.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

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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Today eighty percent of the cropland for soybeans, maize and cotton in the United States is transgenic.

VOA: special.2010.04.27

Four decades in a row the production of American cotton nearly doubled.

美国棉花产量翻倍的传奇,持续了四十年

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They say the population increases are related to drops in insecticide use on the cotton crop.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

The South had its greatest cotton crop ever in 1860.

860年棉花产量是南方有史以来最高的

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Cotton was a crop that grew well in the rich, dark soil near the river.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

And Thomas Jefferson described the people of the North this was in the 1780s now, this is before the cotton boom and all that he described the people of the North this way.

托马斯杰斐逊描述了北方人民,那时候是十八世纪八十年代,还是在棉花产业兴盛之前,他是这么形容北方人的

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Much of the cotton grown in northern China is a Bt variety made by Monsanto.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

Then from 1820 to 1860, the forty years before the war, an estimated roughly two million American slaves were sold to satisfy the need of slave labor in the great cotton kingdom of the growing Southwest.

之后从1820年到1860年,这战争前的四十年间,据粗略统计有大约两百万美国奴隶被出售,以满足西南部,这个日益增长的棉业帝国对奴隶劳工的需求

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In an empty corner, she replaced her cotton stockings for the new silk ones.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

One of the most famous and one of the most prolific was a man named Charles Colcott Jones who owned a huge rice and partly cotton plantation system in low-country Georgia, just south of Savannah.

其中一位著名的多产农场主名叫,查尔斯·考克特·琼斯,他在乔治亚的低地,拥有大片的良田和一部分棉花种植园,就在乔治亚州东南部一城市

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He took a low-paying job in a factory that produced cotton cloth.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

But if you look at 1860, the bottom map, if you can vaguely see those deep, dark, red areas, you can see where cotton moved, where slavery moved in the domestic slave trade, and then where Southern political power moved.

看看1860年,就在地图的最底部,如果你们能看到这些深红色的区域,你们就能明白棉花种植地的扩大,是如何导致奴隶需求量扩大的,同样变化的还有南方政权力量

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Of the 400,000 tons of cotton it produced last year, far less than one percent actually stayed in the country.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

Sea Island cotton, the kind of cotton grown down there in the Georgia where it was first grown in North America in the Georgia, South Carolina islands, was a kind of long and silky kind of cotton.

乔治亚州,有种海岛棉,最初是生长于美国北部的,在佐治亚州的南卡罗来纳州岛上,最初有一种柔软光洁的棉花

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But some people think cotton producers could make a better profit, if their crops could be used in Burkina Faso.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

They weren't very successful in growing it in huge amounts, but that short stapled cotton that eventually was the form of cotton that the cotton gin made into such a massive, marketable world product, is what made the cotton boom boom.

岛上的居民想大规模种植但没有成功,因而海岛棉,这种粗绒棉,逐渐成为了棉花产业的主流,轧棉机的发明成为了种可大量生产,且有利可图的产品,也因而棉花产业越来越兴盛

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And here in the middle of the page a little ways down: My love's striped black-and-white cotton frock, jaunty blue cap, white socks and brown moccasins were not quite in keeping with the large, beautifully cut aquamarine on a silver chainlet which gemmed her throat, a spring rain gift from me.

在这一页中间偏下的地方：,我的小情人穿着黑白条子的棉布裙，带着鲜艳的蓝色帽子，白袜子和亮皮鞋与她脖子上那条优美的,蓝宝石项链有些不协调,这是由于那场春雨我送给她的礼物。

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