这件T恤是全棉的，对吗？

This T-shirt is made of cotton, isn’t it?

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它们是100%棉的吗？

Are they 100% cotton?

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我喜欢你的衬衫、是海岛棉的吗？

I like your shirt. Is that Sea Island cotton?

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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

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I'm not talking about tampons.

我说的不是棉塞。

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Then from 1820 to 1860, the forty years before the war, an estimated roughly two million American slaves were sold to satisfy the need of slave labor in the great cotton kingdom of the growing Southwest.

之后从1820年到1860年,这战争前的四十年间,据粗略统计有大约两百万美国奴隶被出售,以满足西南部,这个日益增长的棉业帝国对奴隶劳工的需求

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