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

• 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。
• The international demand for more shows has given rise to a cottage industry in Israel dedicated to creating television concepts for export.
  国际上对更多节目的需求促使以色列出现了一个致力于创作出口电视节目的行业。
• Hedge fund administration is part of a burgeoning cottage industry that attempts to make funds more transparent to investors.
  对冲基金行政管理服务是一个正在蓬勃发展的作坊式行业的组成部分，目的是增加基金对投资者的透明度。
• Develop a new cottage industry.
  逐渐形成新的家庭手工业。
• '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。
• 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。
• 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。
• From them they run their cottage industry, growing seaweed on monofilament lines strung over shallow coral reefs and selling it for use in canned pet food.
  之后他们在这样的房子里运作起养殖业，在浅浅的珊瑚礁上拉起长串的单丝线来养殖海藻，然后卖掉它们，这些海藻可用来制作罐头宠物食品。
• Bookbinding is largely a cottage industry.
  装订业主要是一种家庭手工业。
• 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。