cotton up to

基本解释

He's very friendly and will cotton up to anyone easily.
他是一位非常友好的人，跟任何人都容易处得好。
The plantation clearings and miles of cotton fields smiled up to a warm sun, placid , complacent .
尚待种植的空地和绵延数英里的棉花田微笑着袒露在阳光之中。
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，华裔美国商务部长骆家辉，也是“炎黄子孙”，中国青年想和他拉老乡关系，套近乎，结果不太好。

And he was sold for $1000.00 to an Alabama cotton planter who came up to Richmond twice a year to buy slaves.
他被以一千美元的价格卖给了一个每年两次,来里士满收购奴隶的亚拉巴马棉花种植主
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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.
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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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