cotton

英 ['kɒt(ə)n] 美['kɑtn]

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

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英英释义

1. silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state

2. fabric woven from cotton fibers

3. erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers

4. thread made of cotton fibers

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.

实用场景例句

a cotton mill: 棉纺厂

sewing cotton: 缝纫用棉线

a cotton reel: 棉线轴

Use a cotton ball to apply the lotion.: 用棉球涂外用药水。

I suddenly cottoned on to what he was doing.: 我突然明白了他在做什么。

the cotton industry: 棉纺织业

printed cotton cloth: 印花棉布

a cotton shirt/skirt: 棉布衬衫 / 裙子

The sheets are 100% pure cotton.: 这些被单是100%的纯棉。

cotton fields/plants: 棉田 / 株

bales of cotton: 大包的棉花

...a cotton shirt.: 棉布衬衫

...a large cotton plantation in Tennessee.: 田纳西州大片的棉田

There's a needle and cotton there.: 那儿有针和线。

The general issued an order to capture the hill to all personnel.: 将军对所有人员下达了夺取那个山头的命令.

Gunpowder, dynamite and gun cotton are explosives.: 黑色火药、甘油炸药和强棉药都是炸药.

They are dependent upon importation from foreign countries for cotton and grain.: 他们的粮、棉依赖从国外进口.

Peanuts now outrank cotton as the chief crop.: 如今花生是比棉花更重要的主要产品.

The porcelain vase is enveloped in cotton.: 瓷花瓶用棉花裹着.

You gained in wheat but lost in cotton.: 你们在小麦方面盈利,但在棉花方面却亏损.

She picked cotton much faster than I.: 她摘棉花比我摘得快.

She stuffed her ears up with cotton wool.: 她用脱脂棉塞住了耳朵.

A girl must cotton to somebody.: 女孩子准有一个她喜欢的人.

The per unit area yield of ginned cotton has increased by 10 % over last year.: 皮棉的单位面积产量比去年增加了10%.

The price of cotton improves.: 棉花涨价.

An outsize cotton shoes was mounted on a huge float and paraded through the main street.: 一双特大的布鞋装在大型花车上在大街上通过.

中文词源

cotton 棉，棉花

来自阿拉伯语。

双语例句

1. Some of the food crops failed. However, the cotton did quite well.: 有些粮食作物歉收。但棉花的收成仍相当不错。

2. Because it was warm, David wore only a white cotton shirt.: 因为天气暖和，戴维只穿了一件白色的棉衬衣。

3. Prices start at £13.95 a metre for printed cotton.: 印花棉布以每米13.95英镑的价格起售。

4. He was wearing cotton pants and an open-necked shirt.: 他穿着纯棉裤子和开领衬衫。

5. He wore brown corduroy pants and a white cotton shirt.: 他身着棕色灯芯绒裤子和白色棉衬衫。

英文词源

cotton: cotton: [14] As with knowledge of the plant, its name cotton came to Europe from the Middle East. It originated in Arabic qutn, which passed via Spanish into the other languages of Europe. English acquired it via Old French coton. The verbal idiom cotton (on) to ‘come to understand’ developed in the 20th century from an earlier ‘harmonize, agree’. This in turn has been traced back to a still earlier ‘prosper’, which seems to have originated in the 16th century with the notion of the successful raising of the nap on cotton cloth.
cotton (n.): late 13c., from Old French coton (12c.), ultimately (via Provençal, Italian, or Old Spanish) from Arabic qutn, a word perhaps of Egyptian origin. Philip Miller of the Chelsea Physic Garden sent the first cotton seeds to American colony of Georgia in 1732. Also ultimately from the Arabic word, Dutch katoen, German Kattun, Provençal coton, Italian cotone, Spanish algodon, Portuguese algodão. Cotton gin is recorded from 1794 (see gin (n.2)).
cotton (v.): "to get on with" someone (usually with to), 1560s, perhaps from Welsh cytuno "consent, agree." But perhaps also a metaphor from cloth finishing and thus from cotton (n.). Related: Cottoned; cottoning.

词态变化

复数: cottons;

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