Employers have cottoned on to this and now often mention a “social purpose” in their recruitment advertisements.

雇主喜欢这一现象，现在常常在招聘面试中提到“社会使命”。

As the financial markets cottoned on to what was happening, investors began to distrust the central bank's weekly reserves figures.

随着金融市场逐渐意识到发生了什么，投资者开始不信任央行的每周外汇储备数据。

It takes about 0.7 kilograms of cotton to produce a single pair of pants.

生产一件牛仔裤需要大约 0.7 公斤的棉花。

Some companies are working on solutions here, from using organic cotton to recycling and reusing denim.

有些公司在寻找解决问题的方法，像是使用有机棉花、回收和重复利用丹宁布。

During the summers, she was forced to work all day picking cotton to help her family make ends meet.

夏季，她被迫整天摘棉花，以帮助家人维持生计。

GAP became big when it cottoned on to the fashion for pastel colours in the 1980s, but it has struggled recently, announcing more store closures.

上世纪80年代，GAP主打的色泽柔和的服装畅销，因此业务不断扩大，而最近却举步维艰，宣布关闭更多门店。

Sarah soon cottoned on to what he was trying to do.

【cotton】萨拉马上明白了他想干什么。

The People Fixing the World programme visited a company where old jeans were mixed with new organic cotton to make new ones.

People Fixing the World节目参观了一家公司，在该公司，旧牛仔裤和新的有机棉混合制成新的牛仔裤。

100% cotton to make the sheet.

100% 棉制成床单。

Mind you I...I didn't cotton on to his technique until after I'd been there a year and then there was the election.

我整整一年才摸透了他的战术，然后就到了选举的时间了。

I didn’t cotton to her at first, but she’s really nice.

【cotton】我一开始并不喜欢她，但是她真的很好。

Cotton grows on farms. People use cotton to make clothing. Shirts, pants, and socks are made from cotton.

棉花生长在农场里，人们用棉花做衣服，衬衫，裤子和袜子都是棉制的。

So when they sit there and they're looking at actors doing that, they cotton to those actors that make that connection, make that connection with them.

所以当他们坐在那里，看着演员们进行表演的时候，他们会代入理解演员们的角色，而这就建立了联系，同演员角色们建立了某种联系。

And when you expose cellulose, like in wood pulp or cotton, to nitric acid, it forms cellulose nitrate -- which is highly flammable.

当你将纤维素（ 如木浆或棉花）暴露在硝酸中时， 它会形成高度易燃的硝酸纤维素。

However, the southern states, although they did grow cotton and sent some of that cotton to England, didn't have enough to meet the demand.

然而，南部各州虽然种植棉花并将部分棉花运往英格兰，但仍不足以满足需求。

In the 1990s a new material was added to the cotton to make it stretch and give an even tighter fit over the bottom and legs.

在 1990 年代，一种新材料被添加到棉布中，使其具有弹性，并使底部和腿部更加贴合。

Northern states favored high tariffs as it protected their industries from European competition while Southern states hated them because it impeded their exports of cotton to attack star mills of Great Britain.

北方各州支持高关税，因为这可以保护他们的工业免受欧洲的竞争，而南方各州则讨厌高关税，因为这阻碍了他们出口棉花以攻击英国的明星纺织厂。

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。

You find it hard to watch the embalmer stuff your nose and throat with cotton to prevent any smells or fluids from leaking out, but even worse is watching them dry out your eyeballs!

你会发现很难看着防腐剂用棉花塞住你的鼻子和喉咙以防止任何气味或液体泄漏，但更糟糕的是看着它们弄干你的眼球！

Step 1 Wear layers of loose, lightweight clothing to avoid perspiration that can bring chills while running around the city. Start with one snug layer, made of cotton, to wick moisture away from your skin to evaporate through the fabric.

在城市中穿梭的时候，多穿几层宽松，轻便的服装，避免汗水让你感到寒冷。首先穿一层棉质紧身打底层，可以让皮肤表层的水分通过布料散发掉。