cottage industry
英 [ˌkɒtɪdʒ ˈɪndəstri]
美 [ˌkɑːtɪdʒ ˈɪndəstri]
n. 家庭手工业
牛津词典
noun
- 家庭手工业
a small business in which the work is done by people in their homes- Weaving and knitting are traditional cottage industries.
编织和针织是传统的家庭手工业。
- Weaving and knitting are traditional cottage industries.
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT (尤以编织或陶器等为主的)家庭手工业，作坊式小工业
Acottage industryis a small business that is run from someone's home, especially one that involves a craft such as knitting or pottery.- Bookbinding is largely a cottage industry.
装订业主要是一种家庭手工业。
- Bookbinding is largely a cottage industry.
英英释义
noun
- small-scale industry that can be carried on at home by family members using their own equipment
双语例句
- 'I feel that same energy here that was about back then,' he explained. 'It's not a big corporate culture, mainly a cottage industry.'
如今在这里我感觉到和当年一样的活力，他解释道，这并不是一种大企业文化，它关乎的是小企业小作坊。 - Economic relations between the US and China have become so mutually dependent and potentially destructive that a cottage industry has built up to give them a name.
美国与中国之间的经济关系已变得如此相互依赖和极具潜在破坏性，以至于一个小行业应运而生，竞相为这一关系取名。 - Then, in cottage industry fashion, the individual parts are delivered to small communities where the puzzles are assembled on a per-piece compensation basis by family groups working in their homes.
然后，以一种类似于手工作坊的形式，各种零件集中到一个小社区进行组装。组装是由计件付酬方式由一些家庭在他们家里面完成的。 - Industries are well developed at the village and cottage industry levels in most Asian countries where mangroves still abound.
在亚洲红树林资源依然丰富的地方，村庄工业发达。 - In this fluid situation, one thing is predictable: The crisis will produce a cottage industry of academics, journalists, pundits, politicians and bloggers to assess blame.
在这种变幻莫测的形势下，有一样事情是可以预计到的：这次危机会产生学者，记者，专家，政客以及博客撰写人评估指责这样一种“家庭手工业”。 - The cottage industry of Fed-watchers will pick two things in particular out of this book, one of which is not even really the province of central bankers.
美联储观察人士会从这本著作里挑出两件事，其中一件甚至并不属于央行行长的管辖范围。 - Such fakes have become a cottage industry in China.
盗版产业在中国，正成为家庭作坊。 - Here at Hotan, on the ancient Silk Road, silk weaving is still a cottage industry, done the old-fashioned way on wooden looms.
和稹就位于古老的丝路上，纺丝仍是一项家庭工业，用木制的织布机，以古老的方法纺织。 - Today's cottage industry of China doubters is a case in point.
对中国当今家庭手工业持怀疑态度的人就是一个典型的例子。 - But is there science to back up this idea, which has brought about a cottage industry of books, CDs and videos?
这个观点催生了一大批粗制滥造的书籍、CD和视频节目，但它是否有科学依据呢？