mass noun
1- the making of articles on a large scale using machinery(大规模)生产, 制造:
the manufacture of armoured vehicles.
装甲车辆制造。
1.1
- with modifier a specified branch of industry制造业:
the porcelain manufacture for which France became justly renowned.
给法国带来应得名声的瓷器制造业。
1.2
manufactures
manufactured goods or articles制成品, 产品:exports and imports of manufactures.
制成品进出口。
with obj.
1
- make (something) on a large scale using machinery生产, 制造:
firms who manufacture ball bearings
生产滚珠轴承的公司
as adj. manufacturing a manufacturing company.制造公司。
1.1
- (of a living thing) produce (a substance) naturally(生命体)产生(某种物质)。
1.2
- make or produce (something abstract) in a merely mechanical way呆板机械地生产(精神产品):
as adj. manufactured manufactured love songs.大量生产出来的(商业化)爱情歌曲作品。
2
- invent or fabricate (evidence or a story)编造, 捏造(证据, 故事):
claims that the entire row had been manufactured by the press.
关于一切争论都是媒体编造的断言。
派生词
manufacturability
nounmanufacturable
adjectivemanufacturer
noun词源
mid 16th cent. (denoting something made by hand): from French (re-formed by association with Latin manu factum 'made by hand'), from Italian manifattura. Sense 1 dates from the early 17th cent.