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

• Then, in cottage industry fashion, the individual parts are delivered to small communities where the puzzles are assembled on a per-piece compensation basis by family groups working in their homes.
  然后，以一种类似于手工作坊的形式，各种零件集中到一个小社区进行组装。组装是由计件付酬方式由一些家庭在他们家里面完成的。
• 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”。
• Township-village enterprises broke through the form of collective ownership of Commune-brigade enterprises, formal inclusion of cottage industry development.
  乡镇企业突破了社队企业的集体所有制形式，正式将家庭工业列入发展范畴。
• Here at Hotan, on the ancient Silk Road, silk weaving is still a cottage industry, done the old-fashioned way on wooden looms.
  和稹就位于古老的丝路上，纺丝仍是一项家庭工业，用木制的织布机，以古老的方法纺织。
• From them they run their cottage industry, growing seaweed on monofilament lines strung over shallow coral reefs and selling it for use in canned pet food.
  之后他们在这样的房子里运作起养殖业，在浅浅的珊瑚礁上拉起长串的单丝线来养殖海藻，然后卖掉它们，这些海藻可用来制作罐头宠物食品。
• Bookbinding is largely a cottage industry.
  装订业主要是一种家庭手工业。
• Develop a new cottage industry.
  逐渐形成新的家庭手工业。
• 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。
• 'I feel that same energy here that was about back then,' he explained. 'It's not a big corporate culture, mainly a cottage industry.'
  如今在这里我感觉到和当年一样的活力，他解释道，这并不是一种大企业文化，它关乎的是小企业小作坊。
• Such fakes have become a cottage industry in China.
  盗版产业在中国，正成为家庭作坊。