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

• Bookbinding is largely a cottage industry.
  装订业主要是一种家庭手工业。
• 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。
• 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。
• As such, a cottage industry of inspirational business advice has sprouted online, full of aphorisms that combine self-help and tough love.
  正因为如此，一个致力于提供励志商业建议的作坊式产业已经在网上破土而出，它充满了集自助和严厉之爱于一身的格言警句。
• Such fakes have become a cottage industry in China.
  盗版产业在中国，正成为家庭作坊。
• But its soundtrack centerpiece Let It Go, which also won an Academy Award for Best Original Song, appears to have started its own cottage industry.
  而《冰雪奇缘》的主题曲LetitGo也获得了奥斯卡最佳原创歌曲奖，如今这首歌曲似乎也开启了自己的产业。
• 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。
• 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”。
• As service technology matures and more players partake of the market we can expect a rich cottage industry for services to develop with offering available to build most any application imaginable.
  随着技术的成熟，以及更多参与者进入市场，我们可以预期会出现大量的服务作坊，绝大多数可以想象出来的应用都可以使用它们提供的服务来完成。
• 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。