He didn't seem to cotton on to me then.

当时他似乎并不喜欢我。

It took her some time to cotton on to what he meant.

她花了一些时间去领会他的意思。

The cotton grows on the plant as long hairs attached to the seeds inside the boll .

棉花长在植物上，就像长毛附着在棉铃里的种子上一样。

But in warm climates, cotton, flax and other fibrous materials that grow on plants have also been used from ancient times to shade people's bodies from the Sun.

但是在温暖的气候，在植物上生长出的棉布，亚麻和其它纤维原料自远古时代，也同样被人们用于遮阳庇荫。

The cotton industry has carried on travelling: its technology moves easily to wherever labour costs are low.

棉纺织工业不断扩展版图，其技术传播迅速，劳动成本也比较低。