| 单词 | factory |
| 释义 | factory (fæktri ) Word forms: factories countable noun [oft noun NOUN] A1 A factory is a large building where machines are used to make large quantities of goods. He owned furniture factories in New York State. Synonyms: works, plant, mill, workshop Collocations: factory complex By 1929, this factory complex had 102,811 workers. The Times Literary Supplement By 1954 the site was a factory complex. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The factory complex also included a building with residences for the employees. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This factory complex comprised a number of chemical plants and manufactured a range of fertilisers from basic raw materials. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The factory complex was constructed between about 1910 and 1915 and consists of six primary structures and five contributory additions. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Additional evidence of slowing inflation emerged yesterday as factory gate prices fell for the second month in a row. Times, Sunday Times Shell-shocked staff walked out of the factory gate last night expressing their anger. The Sun This cut the annual factory gate inflation rate to 9.7 per cent, from 10.3 per cent the month before. Times, Sunday Times Output inflation, which measures the price of goods leaving the factory gate, rose from 0.9 per cent to 1.1 per cent. Times,Sunday Times Factory gate prices dipped by 1.2 per cent, their smallest decline in a year. Times, Sunday Times The company's canning operations originally began with laborious, manual processes, then expanding with steam powered engines, and eventually evolving on into electric powered factory machinery. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Industrial chillers are used for controlled cooling of products, mechanisms and factory machinery in a wide range of industries. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Watt proceeded to develop his engine further, modifying it to provide a rotary motion suitable for driving factory machinery. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The workers dress became tangled in factory machinery, and money she had sewn into her hem spilled onto the floor. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Commodities paid in kind included coal, timber, chemical dyes, pharmaceuticals, livestock, agricultural machines, construction materials, and factory machinery. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In his overcoat and with a briefcase in his hand he could be taken for a factory manager leaving early for work. The Times Literary Supplement The most important staff members, including the party committee secretary, factory manager, and chief engineer, make up its membership. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He worked variously as a builder, industrial chemist, and factory manager, and in later life, as a caretaker and maintenance supervisor. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Outside politics, he worked as a marketing executive, factory manager and company director. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In the central kitchen, chefs are formed in assembly lines to prepare for different dishes, and a factory manager supervises for quality control. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The data suggested that the continuing revival in the euro-zone had boosted factory order books. Times, Sunday Times Current factory order books also fell at the fastest rate in a year, with a balance of 18 per cent saying that orders were down. Times, Sunday Times With factory order books deteriorating at an increased rate, the rate of contraction in the goods-producing sector will likely worsen in coming months. Times, Sunday Times Factory orders are a key measure of the economic recovery. Houston Chronicle Industrial demand for gold rose by 9.2 per cent to 762 tonnes last year as factory orders rebounded from the economic downturn. Times, Sunday Times Factory output was down 3% in the second quarter, compared to the previous three months. ST Steep jumps in oil and food prices last month sent factory output price inflation to a 12-year high, data published yesterday showed. Times, Sunday Times Factory output, retail sales and electricity demand have all undershot expectations. Times, Sunday Times Employment, new orders and factory output all fell to record lows as demand collapsed. Times,Sunday Times But factory output has slowed in recent months. Houston Chronicle The factory owner took a bite of his digestive biscuit. Times, Sunday Times The idea came to him in 2009 when he met a shoe factory owner who wanted to make footwear that mimicked a natural walking movement. The Sun A factory owner stood on the roof of her home, lit a match and was engulfed in flames while police watched below. Times, Sunday Times Twenty years later, a cigarette factory owner pays for the return of his idol. Times, Sunday Times Poverty proved useful to the factory owner because a desperate underclass meant that wages and prices could be kept low. Times, Sunday Times The laborious work of the skilled gunsmith was replaced by factory processes. Times,Sunday Times She rose quickly to executive director of manufacturing engineering, developing factory processes and machinery. Times, Sunday Times In the first season, the factory processed 18,900 tons of sugar beets into 1523 tons of sugar. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In the 1906 season, the three factories processed 200,000 tons of sugar beets into 23,500 tons of sugar, with $300,000 in net profits. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Moreover, many of the industrial corporations are themselves major energy producers as in a number of factories process wastes are used as fuels. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Today, the factory produces 70 tonnes of biscuits a day, and has ambitions to expand. Times, Sunday Times The factory produces 'valve actuators', which are linked to the flow of fuel through sections of the aircraft. Times, Sunday Times The factory produces about ten paintings and ten sculptures a year, he says as we walk through the workspace. Times, Sunday Times Every day this factory produces 42 huge bales, 3m (10ft) high, which are cut into 7,200 individual loo rolls. Times, Sunday Times Each year, the factory produces about 38 million spheres, 26 million of which are exported. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Its sales have proved sensitive to reduced spending on capital equipment and lower factory production volumes. Times, Sunday Times (2009) It was there for more than 20 years Lawless churned out champion after champion with the regularity of a factory production line. The Sun (2009) It is rather like a factory production line. Times, Sunday Times (2008) The economic impact of engineering also stretches far beyond the measurable output of factory production lines. Times, Sunday Times (2010) Now it fills the 3½ acre site on all five storeys, complete with factory shop, café and decorating studio. Times, Sunday Times Before you pay full price, check whether the label you love has a factory shop, or a section of a particular showroom devoted to cutprice goodies. Times, Sunday Times This serves as a factory shop as well as a distribution depot for merchandise being sent out across the country. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A small factory shop stayed open for another year selling all its goods off cheaply. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The network of shops - even the factory shop - had closed by 1996. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It said factory shutdowns and high street collapses would wash 4million from sales over the first half of its financial year. The Sun It has also had to contend with extended factory shutdowns. Times,Sunday Times Tribulations over bumpy product launches and factory shutdowns? Times,Sunday Times Economists have cautioned that the global spread of the virus could trigger a recession as consumers cut spending and companies' supply chains struggle to cope with factory shutdowns. Times,Sunday Times In addition to the factory shutdowns, three distribution centres will be closed and customer service functions will be consolidated. Globe and Mail There are tasting sessions and a chocolate-making workshop, but it's not a factory tour - more the story of the city and names that made it. The Sun The factory tour takes visitors inside the factory and covers history, harvesting, and production. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The app has tips on must-do factory tours, restaurants that serve the best millet, and where to rest your head after curfew. Times, Sunday Times Free factory tours of the plant are offered to the public. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Manufacturing companies offer factory tours as public relations. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He even developed a factory town in which he sold homes to his workers at favorable rates. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The glass works here folded in 1815, ending the hopes of this place becoming a major factory town. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The intentional community was converted into a textile factory town. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A factory town was built and opened in 1939. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The city was once a factory town. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 She also worked in call centres, a furniture factory and as a postwoman before becoming a solicitor. Times, Sunday Times By 1885 he had added a general store, a planing mill, a furniture factory and a flour and feed mill. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He was the fourth son of a carpenter who worked at a local furniture factory. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There also were plans for the construction of a foundry and a furniture factory. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In the 1930s, he worked in a furniture factory by day. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He has worked in a garment factory and sells things as a street hawker. Christianity Today A stool with a tripod iron foot and a patchwork wooden seat comes from a garment factory. Times, Sunday Times The department store closed in 1986 and the building was turned into retail on the ground floors and a garment factory on the upper floors. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 So the problems are not the intensity and burnout and pressure-cooker environment you have in a garment factory. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 She started working in a garment factory to support her family. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The huge factory - its smokestacks have belched fumes since 1919 - will close. Times, Sunday Times With hindsight, it appears that poultry in backyard flocks were markedly more resistant to a virus that has been traced directly to huge factory farms. Times, Sunday Times No lights, just deep potholes, and lorries piling out of a huge factory and sending up clouds of dust. Times, Sunday Times Fish are the last hunted food, in some cases hunted to near extinction, while the huge factory boats do enormous damage to their environment. Times, Sunday Times With peace in 1945, this huge factory then stood empty. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 My grandfather was a steelmaker and my dad had a plastics factory. Times, Sunday Times I worked in a wood factory making furniture, in a plastics factory and as a bricklayer. The Sun The economy was based on a plastics factory, a fabric factory, and agriculture, including a nursery and a dairy farm. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This enterprise maintains a plastics factory in which plastic palettes and containers are made. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A plastics factory manufactures irrigation equipment. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The gym enthusiast and martial arts fan works alongside 14 other people on his production line at a meat processing factory. The Sun Four dilapidated sheds housed 56,000 birds which, when they were eight weeks old, were stuffed into crates and transported live in open lorries to the processing factory. Times, Sunday Times They have set up a six-mile protection zone around the infected farm and processing factory. Times, Sunday Times Often, the carcinogenic chemicals we ingest from meat were added by a processing factory, but they also exist in freshly cooked meat. Times, Sunday Times The first a machine building and metal processing factory capable of producing high-voltage apparatus, tractor spare parts and others. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The idea came to him in 2009 when he met a shoe factory owner who wanted to make footwear that mimicked a natural walking movement. The Sun Another friend found him a job as a clipboard-wielding time-andmotion clerk in a shoe factory, which he soon abandoned. Times, Sunday Times If it's a shoe factory, then we take something to make shoes at home and sell them. Times, Sunday Times She worked in a shoe factory for 20 years. Times, Sunday Times It's in an old shoe factory. Times, Sunday Times He embarked on a protracted, and only minimally successful, attempt to gain restitution for the confiscation of his family's textile factory. Times, Sunday Times An 18th-century textile factory with ten period rooms looking out across the valley and a pool fed by a stream that cascades through the extensive grounds. Times, Sunday Times A strain of this species isolated from effluent from a textile factory was found to be able to degrade azo dyes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The cultivation and processing of coffee, the production of flour, and the textile factory are their main industrial activities. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It no longer exists, having been demolished to make way for a textile factory. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There was at one time a tobacco factory in the place, and a large quantity of hemp was shipped from there. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The original roof was destroyed by a fire in the tobacco factory era. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He came to own numerous properties, a tobacco factory, several sawmills and large forests. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The opening of a spinning mill in 1854, which became two years later a tobacco factory, gradually changed, the socio-economic structure of the municipality. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He was also involved in the local tobacco factory as part of the management. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 工厂 Japanese: 工場 |
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