He was a hardened soldier who "dressed simply in a plain cotton uniform with straw sandals," Ms. Pakula writes, and neither drank nor smoked.

Pakula女士写道，他是一个“身穿简朴的棉军装，打着草鞋”的坚毅士兵，既不喝酒，也不抽烟。

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Nor did he soften much in his disdain for the fruits of commercial society: cheaper cotton and swifter railways meant nothing to him;

他也没有削弱自己对商品社会成果的鄙视：更便宜的棉花、更快捷的铁路对他来说毫无价值；

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In our cotton fabric business, we usually pay 3% commission and never 5% nor any percentage of discount.

在棉布交易中我们通常支付3%而不是5%佣金，也无任何折扣。

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Many are not cognizant of the African designers working for the coveted Italian, French or even American branded lines using African leather and organic cotton, nor is there a realization of the state of the art manufacturing facilities all over the continent.

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Shelley, though he read accounts of the northern cotton mills, and was horrified by them, boycotted neither the coal nor the shirts.

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