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，華裔美國商務部長駱家煇，也是“炎黃子孫”，中國青年想和他拉老鄕關系，套近乎，結果不太好。

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
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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.
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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