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

VOA: special.2010.05.25

How successful was the cotton boom, how important was the cotton boom, what is the relationship between the spread of slavery, the spread of cotton, and power?

棉花业的兴盛是如何的成功,如何的重要,奴隶制的传播,与棉花业的兴盛,以及权利的扩散之间有什么关系

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

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

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

It was a low,dull, quick sound like a watch makes when inside a piece of cotton.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

As part of the project, Mister Teie studied recorded calls of cotton-top tamarin monkeys.

VOA: special.2009.09.29

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"

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The United States navy had blocked southern exports of cotton.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

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

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Underneath the designs, the fabric itself is imported from Benin, even though Burkina Faso is Africa's largest producer of cotton.

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

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

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

By the 1820s, already, within a decade of the War of 1812 and the opening of the frontier, cotton's future seemed limitless.

截至十九世纪二十年代,这其中包括了1812年开战的十年战争,以及边疆的开拓,棉花产业的未来似乎无限

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

(SPEAKING) National Union of Cotton Producers Coordinator Leonce Sanon says Burkina Faso has a very weak capacity to turn cotton into fabric.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

Not entirely accurate about that either, from what we now know about the profitability of slavery and the profitability of the cotton crop.

这点其实也不完全正确,因为我们已经讲到过,奴隶制和棉花作物能产生巨大的经济利益

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

That pushes down the global market price of cotton.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

Good old Eli Whitney, it's his fault we had the cotton boom and slavery grew, and you get sort of Eli Whitney to the Civil War.

伊莱·惠特尼发明的轧棉机,促使了棉花产业兴盛和奴隶需求量猛增,可以说惠特尼在某种程度上导致了内战的爆发

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Professor Moseley said Malian farmers had planted more sorghum because the price of their cotton, a cash crop,had dropped.

VOA: special.2010.03.30

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

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Knitting is a way of creating clothing by looping together long thin pieces of material such as cotton or wool.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

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

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Supporters of one kind of G.M.cotton, for example,note evidence that it can help a plant resist insects and viruses.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

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

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

But they also found something else. They say another kind of bug is now attacking the cotton and other crops.

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

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

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

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

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

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

VOA: special.2010.05.14

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

VOA: special.2010.05.25

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

VOA: special.2010.04.27