After global cotton prices fell in 2008, China's cotton farmers have become sceptical that high prices can last, he added.

他接着表示，在全球棉价于2008年下跌后，中国棉农对高棉价是否能持续产生了疑虑。

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After testing hundreds of materials, they baked a piece of coiled cotton thread until it was all carbon.

在测试了数以百计的材料之后，他们把一块缠在一起的棉线烘烤到碳化状态。

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By 1914, however, after buying automated cotton spinners, the country sold half of its yarn production abroad, which accounted for one-quarter of the world's cotton yarn exports.

然而，及至1914年，在购买自动化棉纺织机械后，这个国家把自己生产的一半纺织产品销往海外，这相当于全世界棉纺织产品出口总额的四分之一。

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The report says the bugs invaded after farmers decreased their use of insecticides by planting Bt cotton.

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But after Tekele Cotton hit a 3-pointer with 2:20 left, VanVleet scored on a shot that bounced all over the rim before dropping.

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After their cotton had been ginned, farmers would keep some of the seed for next year's planting, plow some into the ground as fertilizer, and use the rest to feed their cows.

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Moreover, America remains the world's second-largest grower of cotton (after China), and in many cases it still makes sense to weave near the farms, most of which are in such southern states as North Carolina and Mississippi, rather than to ship cotton abroad.

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