cotton up to

基本解釋

He's very friendly and will cotton up to anyone easily.
他是一位非常友好的人，跟任何人都容易処得好。
The plantation clearings and miles of cotton fields smiled up to a warm sun, placid , complacent .
尚待種植的空地和緜延數(shù)英裡的棉花田微笑著袒露在陽光之中。
Third, the US secretary of commerce, Gary Locke, is also of Chinese descent. But Chinese youth's intention to cotton up to him did not result well.
其三，華裔美國商務(wù)部長駱家煇，也是“炎黃子孫”，中國青年想和他拉老鄕關(guān)系，套近乎，結(jié)果不太好。

And he was sold for $1000.00 to an Alabama cotton planter who came up to Richmond twice a year to buy slaves.
他被以一千美元的價格賣給了一個每年兩次,來裡士滿收購奴隸的亞拉巴馬棉花種植主
耶魯公開課 - 美國內(nèi)戰(zhàn)與重建課程節(jié)選

Once a year at harvest time, the local cotton company sends a four-wheel-drive truck to pick up his sacks of cotton.
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The big Kewalram Chanrai Group out of Singapore hired him away in 1986 to set up a cotton farm and processing operation in Nigeria.
FORBES: Magazine Article
Last September, the New York brokerage Cantor Fitzgerald teamed up with the New York Cotton Exchange to develop an electronic exchange to trade American government-bond futures, striking at the core of the Board of Trade's franchise.
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