名词

1. 工业
Industry is the work and processes involved in collecting raw materials, and making them into products in factories.

2. 行业
A particular industry consists of all the people and activities involved in making a particular product or providing a particular service.

3. 产业;声势浩大的活动
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.

4. 勤劳;勤奋
Industry is the fact of working very hard.

5. see also: captain of industry;cottage industry;service industry

1. the organized action of making of goods and services for sale

e.g. American industry is making increased use of computers to control production

Synonym: manufacture

2. persevering determination to perform a task

e.g. his diligence won him quick promotions
frugality and industry are still regarded as virtues

Synonym: diligenceindustriousness

3. the people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise

e.g. each industry has its own trade publications