The world faces a future with little meat and no cotton because of acatastrophic collapse in bee colonies, experts have warned.

专家们警告说，由于蜂群灾难性的崩溃，世界所面临的未来是几乎没有肉，也没有棉花。

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Uzbekistan is now the world "s third largest cotton exporter, a major producer of gold and natural gas, and a regionally significant producer of chemicals and machinery."

目前乌兹别克斯坦是世界第三大棉花出口国，黄金和天然气的主要生产者和化学药品和武器的重要地域性生产者。

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It's as true in today's world as it was in the antebellum South: cotton is king.

在今日世界，有条真理和美国内战前的南方地区一样：棉花为王。

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

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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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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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China is the largest producer of cotton in the world.

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Brazil, also a competing cotton producer, believes that this combination of US agricultural subsidies and over-production has resulted in the dumping of American cotton on the world markets, depressing world prices.

BBC: South Africans cut their cloth

America has ruled world cotton for about 200 years.

NPR: After 200 Years, U.S. Remains King of Cotton