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

• 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。
• 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。
• But is there science to back up this idea, which has brought about a cottage industry of books, CDs and videos?
  这个观点催生了一大批粗制滥造的书籍、CD和视频节目，但它是否有科学依据呢？
• Porcelain and pottery making as a cottage industry is scattered all over China.
  陶瓷制造作为乡村手工业遍及全国。
• 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。
• The international demand for more shows has given rise to a cottage industry in Israel dedicated to creating television concepts for export.
  国际上对更多节目的需求促使以色列出现了一个致力于创作出口电视节目的行业。
• Cat Videos Are a Cottage Industry
  猫咪视频成了家庭工业
• Economic relations between the US and China have become so mutually dependent and potentially destructive that a cottage industry has built up to give them a name.
  美国与中国之间的经济关系已变得如此相互依赖和极具潜在破坏性，以至于一个小行业应运而生，竞相为这一关系取名。
• 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。
• Today's cottage industry of China doubters is a case in point.
  对中国当今家庭手工业持怀疑态度的人就是一个典型的例子。