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Industry Tourist Success Group Textile Refer Food N Uncount

英语单词 industry
英美音标 英 ['ɪndəstri] 美 ['ɪndəstri]
中文释义 n.工业;产业;行业;勤勉;勤劳
英语例句 (1) Since the advent of atomic power, there have been great changes in industry.
(2) The tourist trade has become a real industry.
(3) The information industry is an infant industry in our country.
(4) He wants to widen his knowledge of the industry.
(5) Success comes with industry.
(6) Industry sometimes compensates for lack of ability.
(7) His success was due to his industry.
中文例句 (1) 自从原子动力问世以后,工业发生了巨大的变化。
(2) 旅游业已经成为真正的产业。
(3) 信息产业在我国是新兴产业。
(4) 他想扩充自己在这一行业的知识。
(5) 成功来自勤奋。
(6) 勤勉有时可以弥补能力之不足。
(7) 他由于勤劳而获得成功。
vocabulary简明 An industry is a group of manufacturers or businesses that produce a particular kind of goods or services. Workers in the textile industry design, fabricate, and sell cloth. The tourist industry includes all the commercial aspects of tourism.
vocabulary扩展 You can use industry to refer to a group of similar businesses: The automobile industry makes cars and car parts. The food service industry prepares food and delivers it to hotels, schools, and other big facilities. Industry comes from the Latin industria, which means "diligence, hard work," and the word is still used with that meaning. If you build a house in three weeks, when the same job takes everyone else three months, you're showing impressive industry.
柯林斯解释
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[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]工业 Industry is the work and processes involved in collecting raw materials, and making them into products in factories.
  • British industry suffers through insufficient investment in research.

    研究投入不足让英国工业深受其害。

  • ...in countries where industry is developing rapidly.

    在工业迅速发展的国家

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[N-COUNT 可数名词]行业 A particular industry consists of all the people and activities involved in making a particular product or providing a particular service.
  [oft n N]
  • ...the motor vehicle and textile industries.

    汽车业与纺织业

  • ...the Scottish tourist industry.

    苏格兰旅游业

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[N-COUNT 可数名词]产业;声势浩大的活动 If you refer to a social or political activity as an industry, you are criticizing it because you think it involves a lot of people in unnecessary or useless work.
  [usu sing]
  [disapproval]
  • Some Afro-Caribbeans are rejecting the whole race relations industry...

    一些加勒比黑人在抵制整个种族关系运动。

  • The multibillion-dollar fitness industry rakes in fat profits from our hunger to look good.

    数十亿美元的健身产业利用我们的爱美之心赚取巨额利润。

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[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]勤劳;勤奋 Industry is the fact of working very hard.
  [FORMAL 正式]
  • No one doubted his ability, his industry or his integrity.

    没人怀疑他的能力、勤奋和正直。

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See also:
captain of industry
cottage industry
service industry

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