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

• As such, a cottage industry of inspirational business advice has sprouted online, full of aphorisms that combine self-help and tough love.
  正因为如此，一个致力于提供励志商业建议的作坊式产业已经在网上破土而出，它充满了集自助和严厉之爱于一身的格言警句。
• 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。
• Bookbinding is largely a cottage industry.
  装订业主要是一种家庭手工业。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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？
• Develop a new cottage industry.
  逐渐形成新的家庭手工业。
• 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。