The dried cotton seed pod, or boll, that surrounds the fibers cracks open, unveiling a burst of several thousand fiber cells in a fluffy mass.

包裹纤维的干燥的籽荚，也叫裂开了，露出一簇簇柔软蓬松的纤维细胞。

Self-driving machines carefully harvest these puffs, an industrial cotton gin mechanically separates the fluffy bolls from the seeds, and the cotton lint is pressed into 225-kilogram bales.

自动驾驶机器小心地收割这些泡芙，工业轧机机械地将蓬松的种子分离，并将皮压成 225 公斤重的包。

Clothing items can vary a lot, but a typical t-shirt begins its life on a farm in America, China, or India where cotton seeds are sown, irrigated and grown for the fluffy bolls they produce.

服装项目可能千差万别，但一件典型的 T 恤起源于美国、中国或印度的农场，在那里播种、灌溉和种植花种子， 出蓬松的。

Sometimes the slave picks down one side of a row, and back upon the other, but more usually, there is one on either side, gathering all that has blossomed, leaving the unopened bolls for a succeeding picking.

有时，奴隶摘下一排的一侧，然后再摘下另一侧， 但更常见的是， 两边各有一个，收集所有已开花的花， 留下未开放的供后续采摘。

Scarlett, standing in the sun in the cotton rows, her back breaking from the eternal bending and her hands roughened by the dry bolls, wished she had a sister who combined Suellen's energy and strength with Carreen's sweet disposition.

思嘉站在太阳下的田里，她已累得腰酸背痛，腰都直不起来，两只手也被桃磨粗了，真希望有个能把苏伦的精力和体力跟卡琳的温柔品性结合起来的妹妹埃因为卡琳摘得又卖力又认真，可是劳动一个小时之后就可看出她（不是苏伦）实际上身体还没有全好，还不宜做这种活儿，结果思嘉只得把她也送回家去了。