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cotton

英 ['kɒt(ə)n] 美['kɑtn]

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n. 棉花；棉布；棉线
vi. 一致；理解；和谐；亲近
adj. 棉的；棉制的
n. (Cotton)人名；(英、西、葡)科顿；(法)戈登

考试真题

You may have heard some of the fashion industry horror stories: models eating tissues or cotton balls to hold off hunger, and models collapsing from hunger-induced heart attacks just seconds after they step off the runway.

Oh, actually grey is my favorite color, but I prefer something made from cotton, 100% cotton I mean.

Grey pants made from pure cotton

Ease of care was most important: summer dresses and outfits, in particular, were chiefly cotton, readily capable of being washed and pressed at home.

Visit a different store for a silk or cotton shirt.

Maybe we can find something in cotton or silk

So I think in the future, materials will evolve, and they will look and feel like fabrics we know today, like cotton or silk.

On the third Monday of April, the holiday sechselauten is kicked off when a cotton snowman called the boogg is stuffed with explosive and paraded through town by bakers and other tradesmen who throw bread to the crowds.

One study found that a cotton bag must be used at least 131 times to be better for the planet than plastic.

Thinking about his children's clothes, he started growing cotton too.

When harvest came around, he was already selling herbs, vegetables and cotton in the market which people from the towns met regularly.

In an essay entitled "Making it in America", the author Adam Davidson relates a joke from cotton country about just how much a modern textile mill has been automated: The average mill has only two employees today, "a man and a dog".

In October the Department of Justice filed a brief in the Myriad case, arguing that an isolated DNA molecule "is no less a product of nature... than are cotton fibres that have been separated from cotton seeds."

Parts of the ceremony involve ritual hair cutting, tying cotton threads soaked in holy water around the bride's and groom's wrists, and passing a candle around a circle of happily married and respected couples to bless the union.

Production of corn, cotton, rice, soybeans, and wheat has been largely mechanized, but many high-value, labor-intensive corps, such as strawberries, need labor.