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
  1. Weaving and knitting are traditional cottage industries.
     编织和针织是传统的家庭手工业。

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.
  1. Bookbinding is largely a cottage industry.
     装订业主要是一种家庭手工业。

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

• Develop a new cottage industry.
  逐渐形成新的家庭手工业。
• 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。
• A veritable cottage industry of comparison-spewing institutions has emerged, this author not excepted.
  一个名副其实的由从事比较的机构组成的作坊式行业已然成形，笔者也不能袖手其外。
• Finding animals that engage in the human activity of tool use has become a bit of a cottage industry.
  查找参与使用工具的人类活动的动物已经变得有点属于家庭手工业的范畴了。Bing的结果：查找从事的工具使用的人类活动的动物已成为一间小屋工业一点。
• The industrial sector is technologically backward, with most production of the cottage industry type.
  工业部门的技术含量很低，很多产品都出自家庭式的手工作坊。
• 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？
• Espensen's father ran a cottage industry making model planes, and when she was a student she reluctantly helped out, packing the kits and posting them out.
  埃斯佩森的爸爸管理着制作飞机模型的家庭手工业。当她还是学生的时候，她很勉强地帮忙，打包装备，再邮寄出去。
• Such is the power of music over consumer behaviour, claim the advertising executives, academics, music consultants and market researchers who are all part of a cottage industry springing up around retailers using music to attract and keep clientele.
  这就是广告主管、学者、音乐咨询师以及市场研究人员宣称的音乐对消费者行为的影响力他们都是新涌现出来的针对零售商利用音乐吸引和留住顾客的小行业中的一员。
• She is beginning a cottage industry with her handmade necklaces.
  她正以自己手工制作的项链来开启自己的家庭手工生意。