industry

英 ['?nd?str?] 美['?nd?stri]

CET4TEM4考研CET6高頻詞核心詞匯

復數:?industries;

industry 工業，行業，勤奮

來自拉丁語industria,行動，勤奮，熱情，來自indu-,在內，在里，第二部分詞源不確定，可能來自-stru,建造，建設，詞源同structure,instruct,或來自-ust,燃燒，詞源同combust.引申詞義燃燒的熱情，勤奮，后用來指制造，制造業，工業，行業。

industry: industry: [15] Industry comes, partly via Old French industrie, from Latin industria, which meant ‘quality of being hard-working, diligence’. This was a derivative of the adjective industrius ‘diligent’, which went back to an Old Latin indostruus, formed from the prefix indu- ‘in’ (see INDIGENOUS) and the element -struus (a relative of the verb struere ‘build’, from which English gets construct, destroy, etc).
=> construct, destroy, structure
industry (n.): late 15c., "cleverness, skill," from Old French industrie "activity; aptitude" (14c.) or directly from Latin industria "diligence, activity, zeal," fem. of industrius "industrious, diligent," used as a noun, from early Latin indostruus "diligent," from indu "in, within" + stem of struere "to build" (see structure (n.)). Sense of "diligence, effort" is from 1530s; meaning "trade or manufacture" first recorded 1560s; that of "systematic work" is 1610s.

1. We are becoming one of the market leaders in the fashion industry.: 我們正在成為時裝業的領軍者之一。

2. Recession has simply accelerated changes that have been reshaping the industry anyway.: 經濟蕭條只不過加速了原本就在改變行業狀況的變化。

3. Representatives from across the horse industry will attend the meeting.: 整個賽馬業的代表都將參加這次會議。

4. The drop in travel is bad news for the airline industry.: 旅游熱降溫對航空業來說是個壞消息。

5. He passed the letters to the Department of Trade and Industry.: 他把信交給了貿工部。