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。
• 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。
• '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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Flag sales are not a road corner cottage industry.
  街角也有出售国旗的摊子。
• But its soundtrack centerpiece Let It Go, which also won an Academy Award for Best Original Song, appears to have started its own cottage industry.
  而《冰雪奇缘》的主题曲LetitGo也获得了奥斯卡最佳原创歌曲奖，如今这首歌曲似乎也开启了自己的产业。
• The industrial sector is technologically backward, with most production of the cottage industry type.
  工业部门的技术含量很低，很多产品都出自家庭式的手工作坊。
• 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。
• Such fakes have become a cottage industry in China.
  盗版产业在中国，正成为家庭作坊。