In the distance the clouds resemble great bales of cotton, piled up in picturesque disorder.

远处的云朵就像一大堆棉花， 乱七八糟地堆放着， 风景如画。

Runaways might be called " bundles, " " parcels, " or " packages." " One bale of cotton" might mean one slave.

逃跑可能被称为“捆绑” 、“包裹”或“包裹” 。 “一包棉花” 可能意味着一个奴隶。

The only valuable part of them consisted in some little fillets, bracelets, and other ornaments of gold, and in some bales of cotton.

其中唯一有价值的部分是一些小鱼片、手镯和其他金饰，以及一些棉花包。

After the seeds have been taken out by a machine, the cotton is made into big bundles or bales. These bales of cotton are brought to England in ships.

工人用机器除去棉桃里的棉籽, 然后把棉花捆成大包将这些棉包用船运到英国。

But how —" " Didn't Captain Butler take thousands of bales of cotton to England and Nassau to sell for the Confederate government" ? asked Pitty triumphantly. " Not only his own cotton but government cotton too?

金元？可怎么-—" " 巴特勒船长不是给联盟政府运过好几千包棉花到英国和纳索去卖了吗？" 皮蒂得意地说。" 不只是他自己的棉花，还有政府的棉花呢！而且你知道，战时把棉花运进英国是怎么回事。

Tested by figures of production, King Cotton had shriveled by 1860 to a petty prince in comparison, for each year the captains of industry turned out goods worth nearly twenty times all the bales of cotton picked on Southern plantations.

通过生产数据的检验，相比之下， 棉花大王到 1860 年已经缩水为一个小王子，工业巨头每年生产的商品价值几乎是南方种植园采摘的所有棉花包的 20 倍。