The genetically engineered cotton is designed to help farmers save money by decreasing the need for poisons.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

And then he makes some comments about how,well, ; he could never pick cotton fast enough; he's just not able to do it as black men are.

于是他对采棉花进行了一些评价，他觉得自己永远没法采摘的够快;,没法像那些黑人一样迅速。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And he was sold for $1000.00 to an Alabama cotton planter who came up to Richmond twice a year to buy slaves.

他被以一千美元的价格卖给了一个每年两次,来里士满收购奴隶的亚拉巴马棉花种植主

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

They say the population increases are related to drops in insecticide use on the cotton crop.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

The slave trade revolving around tobacco or cotton or coffee or sugar would tend to mix slaves and laborers from different language backgrounds, in part deliberately, so as to avoid the possibility of revolt.

为了获得烟草,棉花,咖啡,或糖块的奴隶交易,会将来自不同语言背景的奴隶,和劳动者们混在一起,这也在某种程度上,谨慎地避免了可能的造反

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Bt is used as a pesticide to fight cotton bollworms, corn borers and other pests.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

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

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

It also involved Bt cotton, a plant genetically engineered to resist that threat.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

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

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Then scientists learned how to put a Bt gene into cotton plants.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

The cotton crop nearly doubled every decade from 1820 to 1860.

从1820年到1860年,棉花的产量每十年就翻一倍

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

She even had the album manufactured to smell like cotton candy.

VOA: special.2010.08.27

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

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The study involved bollworms, a major threat to cotton farmers.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

A number of men, as one historian has written, I think quite effectively, "Mounted from log cabin to mansion" and I quote "On a stairway of cotton bales accumulating slaves as they went."

一些人就像一位历史学家写的那样,我觉得非常犀利,引述一段,"小木屋通往大厦的阶梯正是由,奴隶们用棉花包堆积成的"

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Some choices are made for you,". "I didn't want to be a soldier but I didn't want to pick cotton.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

Today,Fasotex only prints designs on fabric, it does not turn the raw cotton into cloth like it used to.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

The U.S.has agreed to establish a $147 million dollar fund to help cotton farmers in Brazil and other countries improve their production.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

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

VOA: standard.2009.12.12

(SPEAKING) National Union of Cotton Producers Coordinator Leonce Sanon says Burkina Faso has a very weak capacity to turn cotton into fabric.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

In 2002,several African countries joined Brazil and took the United States to the WTO over its cotton subsidies.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

(SPEAKING) He goes on to say that with cotton, even if farmers do good work, they will not have anything to show for it.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

Mo Sessions is the Chairman, "my great-grandfather, he heard that peanuts were an alternative to cotton."

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

So it provides export companies with financial help to lower their prices on everything from grains and soybeans to dairy products and,in this case,cotton.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

She says it takes a lot of fuel to grow and harvest all that cotton.

VOA: standard.2009.12.12

U.S.subsidy programs for maize, wheat,and other crops are very similar to the cotton program.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

(SPEAKING) Sanou says that cotton used to be the biggest part of his farm, but now that the price has been dropping, he plants more corn.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

This year,we're going to change our T-shirts and make them from recyclable cotton."

VOA: standard.2009.12.04

Determined to leave the cotton fields of rural Tennessee for the bright lights of Chicago, Koko packed her bags and moved there with her future husband Robert Taylor.

VOA: standard.2009.06.18

But David DeGennaro with the Environmental Working Group puts it this way: "It's really kind of ridiculous that American taxpayers are going to be subsidizing Brazilian cotton farmers just so that we can keep on subsidizing our own cotton farmers.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28