- 1nA1/ˈfæktəri/工廠
A large building or set of buildings where workers use machines to make goods in large numbers.
A large building or set of buildings一棟大型建築物或一組建築物 where workers use machines工人在那裡使用機器 to make goods in large numbers大量製造商品
示範例句 · Example
My uncle works in a car factory near the harbour.
逐字我叔叔在港口附近的一間汽車工廠工作。
「factory」是「用機器大量生產東西的地方」，重點在「機器」和「大量」——手工小店不算 factory。像是汽車、玩具、巧克力都在 factory 裡做出來。跟 workshop（小工作坊）比，factory 規模更大、也更自動化。
常見搭配
car factory
汽車工廠
a factory that makes cars
There is a big car factory just outside the city.
factory worker
工廠工人
someone who works in a factory
The factory workers get a short break at noon.
open/close a factory
開／關工廠
to start or shut down a factory
The company had to close the old factory last year.
work in a factory
在工廠上班
to have a job in a factory
Grandpa worked in a factory for thirty years.
core核心畫面
Picture a large building with machines running in rows and workers along them, turning out the same thing again and again in big numbers. A factory is that place — the point is not just that things are made there, but that they are made in quantity, by machine.
原始詞典資料10 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
factorynoun/ˈfæk.tə.ɹi/
- 1
A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.
- […] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.
- The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.
- 2
slangA police station.
- The guys all knew each other and we were having a jolly old chinwag as we marched them out of the house in front of their stunned neighbours and into a van we had called to take them all to the Factory (police station).
- 3
A device or process that produces or manufactures something.
- Radio became a star factory for journalists.
- 4
A factory farm.
- chicken factory; pig factory
- 5
computingengineeringmathematicsIn a computer program or library, a function, method, etc. which creates an object.
- The task factory […] is the object that is responsible for creating instances of those tasks dynamically.
- 6
The original state of an electronic device, as it was when it came from the manufacturer.
- factory settings; factory defaults; a factory reset
- 7
archaicThe position or state of being a factor.
- 8
historicalA trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country.
- We had here his curate, Mr. Furley, who had been nine years chaplain to the English factory at St. Petersburg […] .
另外 1 個記錄的用法
- 9
obsoleteAn invoice or inventory.
- A short factory of goods sent to Janggamay by Thomas Samuell as principal, Tho. Dryver, and another named Cheque as assistants, anno 1613 in Sciam, the which amounteth as in a long factory at large appeareth, in Sciam money unto T. 2,025 2 2½, collected into this brief as followeth: […]
- What Sterl. is Mr. Lawſon to charge himſelf with, on Account of this Factory, […]
factoryadj/ˈfæk.tə.ɹi/
- 1
Having come from the factory in the state it is currently in; original, stock.
- See how there's another layer of metal there? That's not factory.
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