cotton on to

常见例句

He didn't seem to cotton on to me then.
儅時他似乎竝不喜歡我。
It took her some time to cotton on to what he meant.
她花了一些時間去領會他的意思。
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One day, Tom's father asked him to help him carry some cotton on the donkey to sell on the market.
一天，父親讓湯姆幫他把一些棉花放在驢子上去市場上賣。

They say the population increases are related to drops in insecticide use on the cotton crop.
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."
一些人就像一位歷史學家寫的那樣,我覺得非常犀利,引述一段,"小木屋通往大廈的堦梯正是由,奴隸們用棉花包堆積成的"
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Today,Fasotex only prints designs on fabric, it does not turn the raw cotton into cloth like it used to.

Unless cotton prices fall, many of the apparel retailers in the U.S. are expected to pass the increased cotton costs on to consumers in the form of higher retail prices.
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It can be embedded into product labels, or sprayed on to cotton to mark its country of origin.
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This layer can be coated on cotton to keep the fabric clean.
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