Claudia's father,Thomas Jefferson Taylor, owned two stores as well as thousands of hectares for cotton production.

VOA: special.2010.09.26

And then he makes some comments about how,well, ; he could never pick cotton fast enough; he's just not able to do it as black men are.

于是他对采棉花进行了一些评价，他觉得自己永远没法采摘的够快;,没法像那些黑人一样迅速。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

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

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

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

On a sunny afternoon in the southern U.S.state of North Carolina, Gwen Pitt is supervising the cotton harvest.

VOA: standard.2009.12.12

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

The U.S.has agreed to establish a $147 million dollar fund to help cotton farmers in Brazil and other countries improve their production.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

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

U.S.subsidy programs for maize, wheat,and other crops are very similar to the cotton program.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

For years,cotton growers in developing countries have complained about U.S.farm subsidies.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

Until then, cotton had been the region's largest crop.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

But David DeGennaro with the Environmental Working Group puts it this way: "It's really kind of ridiculous that American taxpayers are going to be subsidizing Brazilian cotton farmers just so that we can keep on subsidizing our own cotton farmers.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28