1 N-UNCOUNT 工业 Industry is the work and processes involved in collecting raw materials, and making them into products in factories. 工业
SYN business, production, manufacturing, trade
2 N-COUNT [oft n NOUN] 行业 A particular industry consists of all the people and activities involved in making a particular product or providing a particular service. 行业
3 N-COUNT [usually singular] 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. 产业;声势浩大的活动 [disapproval]
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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。
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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。
4 N-UNCOUNT 勤劳;勤奋 Industry is the fact of working very hard. 勤劳;勤奋 [formal]
SYN diligence, effort, labour, hard work
5 See also: captain of industry cottage industry service industry
Quotations
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise Bible: Proverbs
Where there is no desire, there will be no industry John Locke Some Thoughts Concerning Education
Avarice, the spur of industry David Hume Essays, Moral and Political: Of Civil Liberty
If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency Joshua Reynolds Discourses on Art
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