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。
• 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。
• 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？
• Porcelain and pottery making as a cottage industry is scattered all over China.
  陶瓷制造作为乡村手工业遍及全国。
• 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。
• 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”。
• 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。
• The first part primarily illustrates the analysing for the history origin about agriculture socialism, namely, small agriculture combined with cottage industry is occupying the main position in the whole social economy over a long period of time.
  第一部分主要是阐述党对农业社会主义产生历史渊源的分析，即小农业和家庭手工业相结合的自给自足的自然经济在整个社会经济中长期占主要地位。
• 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。