industry的意思是什么

1. 工业
2. 行业，业，（有利可图的）行当
3. 企业，产业
4. 勤劳，勤奋，勤勉
5. 工业企业的资方人员，资方
6. 工业界，制造业
7. 生产制造

1. the people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise;

   "each industry has its own trade publications"
   

2. the organized action of making of goods and services for sale;

   "American industry is making increased use of computers to control production"
   

3. persevering determination to perform a task;

   "his diligence won him quick promotions"
   "frugality and industry are still regarded as virtues"
   

1.工业
Industry is the work and processes involved in collecting raw materials, and making them into products in factories.

e.g. Britishindustry suffers through insufficient investment in research.
研究投入不足让英国工业深受其害。
e.g. ...in countries whereindustry is developing rapidly.
在工业迅速发展的国家

2.行业
A particularindustry consists of all the people and activities involved in making a particular product or providing a particular service.

e.g. ...the motor vehicle and textile industries.
汽车业与纺织业
e.g. ...the Scottish touristindustry.
苏格兰旅游业

3.产业;声势浩大的活动
If you refer to a social or political activity as anindustry, you are criticizing it because you think it involves a lot of people in unnecessary or useless work.

industry的意思

e.g. Some Afro-Caribbeans are rejecting the whole race relationsindustry...
一些加勒比黑人在抵制整个种族关系运动。
e.g. The multibillion-dollar fitnessindustry 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.勤劳;勤奋
Industry is the fact of working very hard.

e.g. No one doubted his ability, hisindustry or his integrity.
没人怀疑他的能力、勤奋和正直。

5. see also: captain of industry;cottage industry;service industry

gain through〔by〕 industry

靠勤奋获得… get sth by continual hard work

key industry

基本工业; 主要工业 industrial activity that is important

with industry

勤劳地 industriously

• A climax towards which she has climbed, with unflourished industry.

  出自：K. Tynan

• ☆ 15世纪晚期进入英语，直接源自古法语的industrie；最初源自拉丁语的industria，意为勤劳的。