英:[ˈfæktri]
美:[ˈfæktri]
英:[ˈfæktri]
美:[ˈfæktri]
fac·to·ry
faek tr i [or] faek tri
复数:factories
词根:factor
n.factor 因素;要素;[物] 因数;代理人
factoring [数] 因子分解,[数] 因式分解;保付代理
v.factoring 把…因素包括进去(factor的ing形式)
vi.factor 做代理商
vt.factor 把…作为因素计入;代理经营;把…分解成
noun
a station where factors reside and trade
a colonial factory
a building or set of buildings with facilities for manufacturing
the seat of some kind of production
the vice factories of the slums
hardware factory五金厂
factory building厂房
furniture factory家具厂
pharmaceutical factory药厂;制药厂
electronics factory电子厂,电子工厂;无线电元件厂
factory director厂长;副厂长
garment factory服装厂,成衣工厂
toy factory玩具厂
factory automation工厂自动化
factory area工厂区域
ceramics factory陶瓷厂;照相机厂
clothing factory服装厂;被服厂
factory manager厂长
factory inspection厂内检查;工厂检验
tools factory工具厂
factory price出厂价
textile factory纺织厂
automobile factory汽车厂
electrical appliance factory电工器材厂
factory floor工人工作的场地
这组词都有“工厂”的意思,其区别是:
plant多指电力或机械制造方面的工厂。
mill原义指粮食加工厂。现多指轻工业类的工厂。
factory最普通用词,可泛指任何制造产品的地方。
works多指钢铁等重工业方面的工厂,也指一些特定的厂。
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1550年代,“地产经理办公室”,源自法语 factorie(15世纪),源自晚期拉丁语 factorium “代理人('factors')办公室”,也指“榨油厂,磨坊”,源自拉丁语 factor “做者,制造者”,是 facere 的动名词形式,意为“做”(源自 PIE 词根 *dhe- “设置,放置”)。从1580年代开始用作“商人和代理人在外国地方的机构”。 “制造商品的建筑物”这一意义最早可追溯到1610年代。1890年代开始使用 Factory farm。
制造厂
fact(or) >entry 1 + -ory >entry 1; in sense 1 after Portuguese feitoria; in sense 2 perhaps short for manufactory
The first known use of factory was in 1582
factualadjective
of or relating to facts
a factual error
restricted to or based on fact
a factual statement
factorynoun
a building or set of buildings equipped for manufacturing
1 He then led me into the rear room of the office, which turned out to be a tiny factory filled with many strange machines smeared with red dust.
2 In this instant of its arrival in our atmosphere, everything in the meteor’s path–people, houses, factories, cars–would crinkle and vanish like cellophane in a flame.
3 To my left sunshine poured through a window, lighting up the rouge smears and making the factory look garish, violent, dangerous.
4 It was when I learned about factory farming that I stopped eating meat.
5 Sosie snaked an arm around Jennifer’s waist and bent her side to side as if they were a robot couple taking a turn around some factory dance floor.
6 Retrenchment had begun at the factory—they were firing older employees and hiring younger ones, for less pay.
7 He needed to destroy America's infrastructure by blowing up factories, power plants, water supply systems, and bridges.
8 On the way to the factory, I see two bodies hanging stiff and frozen from the ghetto fence.
9 He ran into one of the other factory workers at the bus stop, who told him with a smirk that Mammachi wanted to see him.
10 By 1814, there were more than three hundred factories in France alone, turning beets into sugar.
11 My father, brother, and I were packed into a cattle car along with other male workers bound for Schindler's new factory.
12 We call it “factory farming” or “intensive farming.”
13 There was obviously a morale problem in the factory.
14 A few nights later Amon Goeth stomped into the factory with his two dogs, Ralf and Rolf, and a squad of his flunkies.
15 My father used to bring scraps from work, but now that the factory was doing so poorly, that luxury ended.
16 I understand that the factory is not working at capacity currently, and I did observe that only one of these devices was operating, burning coal and what looked like one of the cutting tables.
17 How did I think I was going to survive in a factory, where each minute is identical to the next one, and not just each day?
18 For one thing, the various parts of the Gemini and Apollo spacecraft were manufactured in factories as far apart as New York and California, with places in between such as St. Louis, Missouri.
19 Every now and then, Bertha looked dreamily over at Gus like he was a movie star and not some scraggly haired man who worked in a mattress factory over in Cooperville.
20 Then they descended out of the America of factory work and tyrannical foremen into an Arcadian grotto of forgetfulness.