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.
雙語例句
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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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5. He passed the letters to the Department of Trade and Industry.