Was it how you invented the cotton gin?

你发明轧棉机的过程？

I got it caught in a cotton gin when I was 12 years old.

我 12 岁的时候左手卡到了轧棉机里。

Whitney got a patent for his cotton gin in 1794.

1794 年，惠特尼的轧棉机获得了专利。

Whitney and Miller started their own business making these cotton gins.

惠特尼和米勒开始了自己的生意，生产这些轧棉机。

What were you gonna tell us? - Was it how you invented the cotton gin?

你要跟我们说什么？ - 你怎么发明轧棉机的？

Yeah. Oh! Was how you invented the cotton gin? ! Ross: Okay, good bye!

你发明轧棉机的过程? 好的，再见！

Whitney and Miller had to close their cotton gin business after only three years because they weren't making any money.

惠特尼和米勒仅在三年后就不得不关闭他们的轧棉机业务，因为他们没有赚到钱。

The invention of the cotton gin and textile machinery created a market for cotton which the planters, with all their skill and energy, could hardly supply.

轧棉机和纺织机械的发明创造了一个棉花市场，种植者用他们所有的技能和精力都难以供应。

It was just a horrible, horrible system made possible by the way the cotton gin interacted with the institutions of slavery and oppression of African-American people.

这是一个非常非常可怕的系统，是由于轧棉机与奴隶制和压迫非裔美国人的制度相互作用而形成的。

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，工业轧棉机机械地将蓬松的棉铃与种子分离，并将皮棉压成 225 公斤重的棉包。

So the cotton gin allowed the development of, and the commercial cultivation of upland cotton, for which there was increasing demand from British industry as industrialization grew.

因此，轧棉机使得陆地棉得以发展和商业化种植，随着工业化的发展，英国工业对陆地棉的需求不断增加。

The locations were changed but the settings were alike — a strip of wasteland bordered by rows of rotted shacks, and somewhere near a mill, a cotton gin, or a bottling plant.

地点变了，但环境是一样的——一片荒地， 旁边是一排排破烂的棚屋， 靠近一家磨坊、一家轧棉机或一家装瓶厂。