| 单词 | industry |
| 释义 | industry (ɪndəstri ) Word forms: industries 1. uncountable noun B1 Industry is the work and processes involved in collecting raw materials, and making them into products in factories. British industry suffers through insufficient investment in research. ...in countries where industry is developing rapidly. Synonyms: business, production, manufacturing, trade 2. countable noun [oft noun NOUN] B1 A particular industry consists of all the people and activities involved in making a particular product or providing a particular service. ...the motor vehicle and textile industries. ...the Scottish tourist industry. 3. countable noun [usually singular] If you refer to a social or political activity as an industry, you are criticizing it because you think it involves a lot of people in unnecessary or useless work. [disapproval] Some Afro-Caribbeans are rejecting the whole race relations industry. The multibillion-dollar fitness industry rakes in fat profits from our hunger to look good. 4. uncountable noun Industry is the fact of working very hard. [formal] No one doubted his ability, his industry or his integrity. Synonyms: diligence, effort, labour, hard work 5. See also captain of industry, cottage industry, service industry Quotations: Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise Bible: Proverbs Where there is no desire, there will be no industrySome Thoughts Concerning Education Avarice, the spur of industryEssays, Moral and Political: Of Civil Liberty If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiencyDiscourses on Art Collocations: entire industry That is more cars than the entire Italian car industry built last year. The Sun (2013) Besides, an entire tourist industry depends on its existence. Times, Sunday Times (2007) There is an entire industry devoted to bringing classical music to babies. Times, Sunday Times (2014) The global steel industry is running at less than two thirds of its capacity. Times, Sunday Times (2016) The UK is the centre of a global motor sport industry - the majority of cars are designed and manufactured here. Times, Sunday Times (2010) The global mining industry could face a wave of mergers. Times, Sunday Times (2007) The most visible entrepreneurs of the high-tech industry are predominantly liberal. Times, Sunday Times (2012) The first was the wave of entrepreneurship in new, high-tech industries such as information technology and life sciences. Times, Sunday Times (2007) The kind of business in which Britain excels, pharmaceuticals and the high-tech creative industries, also have a high, and growing, pay gap. Times, Sunday Times (2012) Now the industry invests only 2 per cent of its revenues in research and development. Times, Sunday Times The entertainment industry invests heavily to create films and albums. The Sun Ticket prices must rise by at least 1.4 per cent a year even if the industry invests heavily in more efficient aircraft and introduces lower-carbon fuels. Times, Sunday Times They describe themselves as 'the trusted industry leader' but quoted me just 70.84. The Sun Their grant of 2,500 has been transformed into the industry leader in online accounting services. Times, Sunday Times An industry leader said bringing members together would be 'not even like herding cats, because you've got a couple of lions in there as well'. Times, Sunday Times We feel we are an industry leader. Times, Sunday Times After the release of this e-book, she fast became a respected industry leader in driving sales and marketing via email publishing. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A pharmacy industry lobbyist could not have dreamt of better. Times, Sunday Times Ministers gave in to industry lobbyists who swarm around such meetings instead of acting in the public interest. Times, Sunday Times The move was described as a 'sham' by industry lobbyists. Times, Sunday Times The proposal includes making public all meetings between ministers, senior officials and industry lobbyists. Times, Sunday Times Industry lobbyists complain that it takes years to jump regulatory hurdles in getting medicines on to the market, eating into the patent life of medicines. Times, Sunday Times Industry observers have warned that consumers may not benefit from the surge of apparent price-cutting. Times, Sunday Times Freehold will in all likelihood come as the city reaches out more to international investors but industry observers don't expect the floodgates to open. Times, Sunday Times However, business has been picking up in recent months, industry observers said, with financing, capital markets, litigation and regulatory work particularly active. Times, Sunday Times Most industry observers expect only a small number of firms to seek external funding in the short term. Times, Sunday Times Industry observers say that for any deal worth less than $500 million, investment banks usually ask for about 7 per cent. Times, Sunday Times Each attendee may schedule up to 4 song pitching sessions per day with an industry professional. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The performance may hardly satisfy the need of industry professional users in terms of call setup delay, trunking group functionality etc. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The platform uses a proprietary algorithm to analyze user profiles and provide suggestions for potential band members and industry professional connections. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Interviewing a range of writers, publishers and other industry professionals throws up complex and sometimes disturbing answers. The Times Literary Supplement All lecturers are former industry professionals and students receive hands-on education. The Sun Even taking into account new industry regulation, the company looks robust, making this a good long-term buy. Times, Sunday Times Under water industry regulation, the proceeds must be shared 50:50 between shareholders and customers. Times, Sunday Times Second-charge mortgages are covered by some of the industry regulation. Times, Sunday Times Even today's high-tech measuring devices leave room for 'user error', and, without industry regulation or stricter policy guidance, mistakes are made, which people unwittingly pay for. Times, Sunday Times Finding ways to circumvent industry regulations to promote innovation and produce a better customer deal. Times, Sunday Times The industry regulator has ruled it was not visible to people who saw the adverts as the bus drove past. Times, Sunday Times The industry regulator launched a formal investigation after receiving 11 complaints about the one-off programme. Times, Sunday Times Energy companies will have to tell customers their cheapest tariff under proposals from the industry regulator to make bills simpler and fairer. Times, Sunday Times Energy companies seeking to deflect attention from rising bills have received a new year gift from the industry regulator. Times, Sunday Times Broadband and mobile phone customers who lose service will be compensated by their telecoms provider, according to new rules being drawn up by the industry regulator. Times, Sunday Times In order to be profitable, this industry relies on repeat customers who go through a treadmill of periods of bingeing or dieting. Times, Sunday Times The weight-loss industry relies 'on a 95 per cent recidivism rate'. Times, Sunday Times The oil industry relies on cash flow to fund the hundreds of billions it spends every year to find new sources around the world. Times, Sunday Times The fund management industry relies on the inability of its customers to do such calculations to hide the monetary impact of its fees and poor performance. Times, Sunday Times The cotton industry relies on irrigation and has been affected by recent drought with water allocations to farms severely reduced. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Each industry representative will give a short presentation. Times, Sunday Times A construction industry representative condemned the fires. Houston Chronicle The logging industry representative states that they have efficiency and re-seeding efforts. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Industry representatives see that as a reason to oppose a law like this. Houston Chronicle He also has a personal reason for not trusting industry representatives. Houston Chronicle Small businesses can also enter, forming teams based on a supply chain, industry sector or those with the same training provider or college. The Sun Your business can be in almost any industry sector, with one or two exceptions. Times, Sunday Times The possible tie-up would almost certainly presage a fresh wave of consolidation in the industry sector. Times, Sunday Times Adding extra skills or knowledge of your industry sector will ensure you stand out against other candidates. The Sun The industry sector delivering the most warnings was construction, as tight credit, cutbacks and a hiatus in the private finance initiative squeezed building businesses. Times, Sunday Times He has increasingly taken on a role as industry spokesman. Times, Sunday Times But it's a conclusion angrily refuted by a soft-drinks industry spokesman. The Sun An industry spokesman, however, said the symbol isn't a good indicator. Houston Chronicle Some groups, however, have taken a more confrontational approach and an industry spokesman warned it was 'only a matter of time' before a demonstrator or worker was hurt. Times, Sunday Times According to an automotive industry spokesman, the regular use of this type of gasoline results in improved engine life. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 That amounts to 0.015 per cent of all its mortgages, bucking an industry trend. The Sun Indeed, customers usually replace their bikes after five years, the time it takes for the next big industry trend to emerge. Times,Sunday Times The assignment of a single company was contrary to the industry trend of hiring multiple vendors to work on a film's effects. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Recently the software industry trend has been to move all software applications online. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Projects fit with the industry trend of implementing green initiatives. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 His son, a 10-year industry veteran, was a floor hand on the rig. Houston Chronicle An industry veteran, he will inject upstream savvy. Times, Sunday Times His reasoning became clear yesterday as the 48-year-old insurance industry veteran reported a 43 per cent leap in annual operating profits. Times, Sunday Times However, the respected industry veteran insisted that the company was strong enough to survive. The Sun But one senior mobile industry veteran was relieved of a more surprising item after throwing off his footwear for a stint on the dancefloor. Times, Sunday Times Some industry watchers have claimed that it's $297 million. Times,Sunday Times Industry watchers put her departure down to office politics. The Sun It could be, industry watchers are wagering, a new step in the evolution of the five global leviathans whose tentacles stretch across all continents. Times, Sunday Times The financial hit was greeted with some dismay by the media, but industry watchers believe the short-term pain will be worth it. Times, Sunday Times Industry watchers say that de-stocking has now run its course. Times, Sunday Times Government had hoped that the insurance industry would take up the slack. Times, Sunday Times (2006) The insurance industry was built by actuaries, really smart mathematical people, highly paid. The Sun (2017) He worked for five years in the insurance industry before switching to installing playground equipment. Times, Sunday Times (2016) The outlook for the insurance industry and asset managers is mixed. Times, Sunday Times (2016) Today he will meet representatives of the insurance industry. Times, Sunday Times (2014) There are millions in its middleincome demographic desperate for advice and hand-holding as they grapple with the traditional investment industry. Times, Sunday Times They have instead become caught in one of the biggest debacles to hit the investment industry in recent years. Times,Sunday Times Until their creation, the collective investment industry attracted only investors comfortable in investing in equity and bond markets. ST The investigation caused an outcry in the investment industry and among customers. Times, Sunday Times Summers, 39, who has worked in the investment industry for more than 17 years, believes that the gap may narrow. Times, Sunday Times This huge and lucrative industry has changed the face of rural Argentina. Times, Sunday Times (2014) The lucrative tourist industry was becoming increasingly cut-throat. Times, Sunday Times (2015) The port and its lucrative charcoal industry were a vital source of income. Times, Sunday Times (2013) For, in these cash-strapped times for the music industry, venues often change their names to incorporate that of their corporate sponsor. Times, Sunday Times (2013) Teaching includes seven specialist modules including the role of the record producer, planning and budgeting for recording sessions plus technology and the music industry. The Sun (2010) The mobster-turned-movie-maker enters the music industry - but things do not go to plan. The Sun (2009) Concert promoters have previously been steadfastly against the secondary ticketing companies, which they accuse of promoting touting and depriving the live music industry of income. Times, Sunday Times (2009) Now, though, it appears that the music industry is setting out to make amends for its many syntactical sins. Times, Sunday Times (2013) Most mainstream collective funds which invest in commodities focus on companies associated with mining and the petrochemical industry. Times, Sunday Times The only weak point was sales to the petrochemical industry, where it supplies multimillion-dollar expansion joints. Times, Sunday Times But the petrochemical industry changed all that. Times, Sunday Times I am 59 years old and have spent most of my working life installing and servicing computer-controlled machines and electrical/control equipment in the petrochemical industry worldwide. Times, Sunday Times It also provided no tax relief for the petrochemical industry. Houston Chronicle The pharmaceutical industry has flourished in no small part because of the strength of the UK's research base in biomedical science. Times, Sunday Times (2009) Health charities have been bombarded recently with criticism for their close links with the world of commerce, particularly the pharmaceutical industry. Times, Sunday Times (2006) He is carving himself a niche in the pharmaceutical industry, something which the company has given him free rein to do. Times, Sunday Times (2006) I had spent five years in the chemical and pharmaceutical industry and needed a new challenge. Times, Sunday Times (2014) The pharmaceutical industry had provided only limited investment because few applications were considered to be nearly ready for clinical use. Times, Sunday Times (2009) Private industry may do the actual construction of mass-transit public transport links, but government alone can knock heads together to initiate. Times, Sunday Times Do they have any idea what it's like in private industry when you negotiate an employee's salary package? The Sun He urged private industry, telecoms and software firms to work with government to fight the threat. The Sun The mistake of an agent might work in private industry. Chicago Sun-Times Certainly advanced societies require cutting-edge research and development undertaken at our universities as well as in private industry. Times, Sunday Times The rebooting of cherished fictional characters of the past has become a profitable industry for publishers, authors and estates in recent years. Times, Sunday Times Tourism was a very profitable industry in the pre-independence period. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Also, natural resource extraction can be a very profitable industry (high value added), e.g., oil extraction. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This has proved a profitable industry where blinds can now be controlled from electronic hand-held devices. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Fish farming became a new, profitable industry along the coast. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 As a sector, that makes it four times as big as the comic publishing industry. Times, Sunday Times We have a thriving publishing industry and some great authors. Times, Sunday Times I didn't know anything about how the publishing industry worked. Times, Sunday Times Longer than you might think, according to well-placed sources in the publishing industry. Times, Sunday Times Though she has achieved dominance in her own corner of the publishing industry, she was not thought to be seeking global hegemony. Times, Sunday Times Illegal file-sharing costs the recording industry tens of millions of pounds a year. The Sun The recording industry may be sinking, but it's not the only ship on the ocean. Times, Sunday Times His brilliant understanding of the recording industry proved invaluable. Times, Sunday Times The recording industry has long fought music piracy, which enables fans to download tracks for free or virtually no cost from illegal or overseas web-sites. Times, Sunday Times It's a consequence of a globalised recording industry and the expectations that come from international touring, but it's a loss nonetheless. Times, Sunday Times There are moves afoot, backed behind the scenes by concerned education ministers, to regulate the industry. Times, Sunday Times It rejected claims that the staff shortage was affecting its ability to regulate the industry effectively. Times, Sunday Times A new law to regulate the industry was almost ready to be published. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This controversy has led some state legislatures to propose bills to regulate the industry. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The colonial government decided to regulate the industry with guilds and standards. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The retail industry is in constant flux. Times, Sunday Times (2011) Gaming zones have become a major part of the retail industry. Times, Sunday Times (2010) The retail industry has accepted the inevitable. Times, Sunday Times (2013) However, one innovation promises to revolutionize the industry: ropeless traps. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Some publications even claiming it would revolutionize the industry. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This invention improved log retrieval in difficult terrain and revolutionized the industry. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It revolutionized the industry by completely automating the operation of pool-spa combinations. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Digital photography revolutionized the industry by eliminating the delay and cost. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In the local media, however, the legal battle is being characterised as another outbreak of class conflict stoked by the boom in the technology industry. Times, Sunday Times (2014) Backers of one former darling of the fleetingly fashionable green technology industry stood fast. Times, Sunday Times (2013) Another former darling of the fleetingly fashionable green technology industry teetered on the edge of collapse yesterday. Times, Sunday Times (2012) Bangalore is the main centre of India's booming high technology industry. Times, Sunday Times (2008) But he fears that his adopted country and homeland do not and argues that this holds back the technology industry and their economies. Times, Sunday Times (2013) The coalition now includes the steel and textile industries, the sugar industry, citrus growers, cattlemen and cotton producers. Globe and Mail (2003) As well as yielding such a nutritious oil, flax is a major force in the textile industry. Fats, Nutrition and Health (1991) The textile industry employed as many women as men and contributed a substantial number of female officers. Christianity Today (2000) The northern French city was down, out and flattened when its textile industry collapsed. Times, Sunday Times (2015) And it was India that was forced to absorb the goods produced while its flourishing textile industry was destroyed. Times, Sunday Times (2016) Along the way you will spot the pit of a collapsed tin mine - evidence of the area's thriving industry during the 18th century. Times, Sunday Times Do we want a thriving industry? Times, Sunday Times There's a thriving industry too. The Sun Payday lenders have flourished during the recession, creating a thriving industry that has trebled in size in only four years to 2.2bn. Times, Sunday Times The city has turned ghost-hunting into a thriving industry. Times, Sunday Times The tourism industry is the biggest earner of foreign currency and was expected to make 500 million this year. Times, Sunday Times (2008) The great whites are critically endangered and the tourism industry props up their protection, so it's a great thing to do. The Sun (2016) They warn that the destruction of the tourism industry could radicalise unemployed workers. Times, Sunday Times (2016) The tourism industry has also reported a Brexit boom, with the weak pound helping the industry. Times, Sunday Times (2016) The figures reflect the importance of the tourism industry in both areas. Times, Sunday Times (2010) Digital music players for three-year-olds are the new battleground in the 20 billion toy industry. Times, Sunday Times It would be easy for the toy industry to react to these difficult times by trying to cut costs at every single corner. Times, Sunday Times In the past few years, the toy industry has been waking up to the fact that it makes good financial sense to cater for overlooked consumer groups. Times, Sunday Times However, toy industry experts have said that the closure of some factories could help others to survive the downturn, with the biggest and most sophisticated likely to benefit. Times, Sunday Times These new austerity measures, coupled with the general decline in deals globally, resulted in further contraction within the deal toy industry and its individual firms. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Shame, then, that only a lucky few will get to make the journey, because the announcement seems to have caught the travel industry by surprise. Times,Sunday Times The travel industry welcomed the establishment of the taskforce yesterday but there was frustration that the process was only just starting. Times,Sunday Times The travel industry has said that it may lose more than $700 million. Times, Sunday Times The travel industry has been hit hard by the coronavirus outbreak over the past month, with investors worried that fewer people will holiday abroad. Times,Sunday Times The moves rule out the possibility of a price war in the travel industry. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 工业 Japanese: 産業 |
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