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a building or group of buildings where goods are made, mainly by machine 工厂；制造厂 a car factory 汽车制造厂 The factory closed down ten years ago. 那家工厂十年前倒闭了。 - in/at a factory
She works in the local textile factory. 她在当地的纺织工厂工作。 factory workers 工厂工人
Synonyms factoryfactory- plant
- mill
- works
- yard
- workshop
- foundry
- factory a building or group of buildings where goods are made, mainly by machine:
a chocolate/cigarette/clothing factory 巧克力厂；香烟厂；制衣厂
- plant a factory or place where power is produced or an industrial process takes place:
a nuclear power plant 核电厂 a manufacturing plant 制造厂
- mill a factory that produces a particular type of material:
a cotton/paper/textile/woollen mill 棉纺厂；造纸厂；纺织厂；毛纺厂
- works (often in compounds) a place where things are made or an industrial process takes place:
a brickworks 砖厂 a steelworks 炼钢厂 Raw materials were carried to the works by barge. 原材料由驳船运到工厂。
- yard (usually in compounds) an area of land used for building something:
a shipyard 船坞
- workshop a room or building in which things are made or repaired using hand tools or machinery (usually individual items or small numbers of items):
a car repair workshop 汽车修理厂
- foundry a factory where metal or glass is melted and made into different shapes or objects:
an iron foundry 铸铁厂
- a car/chemical/munitions factory/plant
- an engineering plant/works
- to manage/run a factory/plant/mill/works/yard/workshop/foundry
- to work in/at a factory/plant/mill/yard/workshop/foundry
- factory/mill/foundry owners/managers/workers
Extra ExamplesTopics Buildingsa2, Businessa2He works in a shoe factory. 他在一家鞋厂工作。 They had to close the factory down in the recession. 在经济衰退时期他们不得不关闭工厂。 capital to set up a ceramics factory 开办陶瓷厂所需的资金 a chocolate/cigarette/clothing/soap factory 巧克力厂；香烟厂；服装厂；肥皂厂
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- large
- small
- modern
- …
- build
- open
- set up
- …
- make something
- produce something
- open
- …
- manager
- owner
- worker
- …
- at factory
- in factory
a person or organization that continuously produces a large quantity of a particular thing This record label has become a real hit factory (= one that produces a lot of successful songs). 这张唱片厂牌已经成为真正的热门工厂。 - (disapproving)
These universities are becoming colourless degree factories, with no sense of what higher learning is really about. 这些大学正在成为无色学位工厂，对高校的真正意义一无所知。
Word Originlate 16th cent. (originally referring to a place where traders did business in a foreign country): via Portuguese feitoria. The current sense is based on late Latin factorium, literally ‘oil press’.