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

• Finding animals that engage in the human activity of tool use has become a bit of a cottage industry.
  查找参与使用工具的人类活动的动物已经变得有点属于家庭手工业的范畴了。Bing的结果：查找从事的工具使用的人类活动的动物已成为一间小屋工业一点。
• Industries are well developed at the village and cottage industry levels in most Asian countries where mangroves still abound.
  在亚洲红树林资源依然丰富的地方，村庄工业发达。
• 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？
• 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。
• Such fakes have become a cottage industry in China.
  盗版产业在中国，正成为家庭作坊。
• A veritable cottage industry of comparison-spewing institutions has emerged, this author not excepted.
  一个名副其实的由从事比较的机构组成的作坊式行业已然成形，笔者也不能袖手其外。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Bookbinding is largely a cottage industry.
  装订业主要是一种家庭手工业。