British farmers have also cut back on sheep production since the 2001 hoof-and-mouth scare. In Australia, falling wool prices in the 1990s and crippling droughts hit the industry hard.

英国自从2001年的口蹄疫之后也有大部分人退出绵羊养殖业，澳大利亚自从上世界90年代干旱之后羊毛价格都下降了。

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Textile fabrics otherwise impregnated, coated or covered, of wool; studio back-cloths and the like, of wool.

以其它方法浸渍、涂布或被覆之毛制纺织物；摄影场用绘画背景及类似品，毛制。

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The old man's wits, once gone a-wool-gathering, rarely came back in a hurry.

那老人的头脑一犯起糊涂来，仓促之间是很难复原的。

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For fall, she gets a black-and-oyster lame dress, a metallic tweed suit and a jet-black silk and wool gown with a beaded back, cutout bodice and mermaid hemline.

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The room was uncluttered, considering how small it was, but everything in it was striking and eccentric: the faded rugs, the pictures on the walls, a wool blanket woven in bright colors flung over the back of the sofa, collections of stones and twisted weathered deadwood from the moors.

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The sight of those airy florals and lightweight colorful leather bomber jackets makes it hard to go back into the closet and pile on the same old layers of wool we have been wearing since last Fall.

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