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factory

/fak-tuh-ree, -tree/US // ˈfæk tə ri, -tri //UK // (ˈfæktərɪ) //

工厂,厂房,厂区,厂长

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural fac·to·ries.

    • : a building or group of buildings with facilities for the manufacture of goods.
    • : any place producing a uniform product, without concern for individuality: They call it a law school, but it's just a degree factory.
    • : an establishment for factors and merchants carrying on business in a foreign country.

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Examples

  • Elon Musk called an attempted cyberattack against Tesla “serious,” a comment that confirms the company was the target of a foiled ransomware attempt at its massive factory near Reno, Nevada.

  • Not only replaceable, but guaranteed replaceable—and for reasonably technical end users, user-replaceable—with easily purchased parts from the factory.

  • The lion’s share of the US’s imported exercise equipment comes from China—some 65% in 2019, according to the International Trade Centre—where factories were shutting down at the beginning of 2020 due to Covid-19.

  • Anything could be built in industrial areas – standalone homes, apartments, businesses or factories.

  • The IT sector offers an alternate way forward in an economy still dominated by Soviet-style collective farms and state-run factories.

  • The cameraman was reporting on the factory catching fire when the inevitable happened.

  • A plastic factory, a hardware supplier, and shipping–and-receiving giants like Fed-Ex and DHL are neighboring businesses.

  • Not just a candy factory but a candy store, and everything in it free.

  • By day, she cares for her children in a bombed-out milk factory that hosts her orphanage, Okutiuka.

  • Have we become a nation of Veruca Salts from “Willie Wonka and The Chocolate Factory,” who are unbearably demanding?

  • It was afterwards used as a schoolroom in connection with Winfield's factory.

  • A Lowell factory-girl would consider this entirely out of character, and a New-York milliner would be shocked at the idea of it.

  • Think of this, ye who talk, not always without reason, of "factory slaves" and the meagre rewards of labor in America.

  • Gallinas, the noted slave factory on the west of Africa, purchased by the Liberian republic.

  • Seven o'clock in the morning is too early for any rational human being to be herded into a factory at the call of a steam whistle.