She had cleaned under her fingernails, twirled the wax out of her ears with a cotton bud.

她清洁了她指甲的下方，用棉花棒掏出她耳中的耳垢。

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His older brother, Joseph, went out to Mississippi and struck it rich in cotton.

他的哥哥约瑟夫去了密西西比，并且依靠棉花致富。

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Do you recall how he said the Yankee fleet could bottle us up so tightly we could not ship out our cotton?

他还说，北方佬的军舰会把我们严密封锁起来，不让棉花运出国境。

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"We have found out that most of our cotton here in eastern North Carolina goes to make jeans,"

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But his older brother, Joseph, went out to Mississippi and struck it rich in cotton.

但他的哥哥约瑟夫,去了密西西比并且依靠棉花种植致富

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There are a few efforts to do that. At the Fasotex factory, General Manager Grand is working on getting a new fleet of machines that would begin weaving cloth out of local cotton by next year.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

We sold out cotton down in Little Rock.

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Cotton growers have also shown an astounding ability to coax value out of cotton production by throwing nothing away and finding somebody, anybody, to eat it or buy it.

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Beekeepers, meantime, are shaking out their white cotton coveralls, netted veils and gauntlet-style gloves.

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