industry

英 ['ɪndəstrɪ] 美['ɪndəstri]

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复数: industries;

industry 工业，行业，勤奋

来自拉丁语industria,行动，勤奋，热情，来自indu-,在内，在里，第二部分词源不确定，可能来自-stru,建造，建设，词源同structure,instruct,或来自-ust,燃烧，词源同combust.引申词义燃烧的热情，勤奋，后用来指制造，制造业，工业，行业。

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.: 我们正在成为时装业的领军者之一。

2. Recession has simply accelerated changes that have been reshaping the industry anyway.: 经济萧条只不过加速了原本就在改变行业状况的变化。

3. Representatives from across the horse industry will attend the meeting.: 整个赛马业的代表都将参加这次会议。

4. The drop in travel is bad news for the airline industry.: 旅游热降温对航空业来说是个坏消息。

5. He passed the letters to the Department of Trade and Industry.: 他把信交给了贸工部。