2N-COUNT [oft n NOUN]行业 A particular industry consists of all the people and activities involved in making a particular product or providing a particular service. 行业
...the motor vehicle and textile industries.
汽车业与纺织业
...the Scottish tourist industry.
苏格兰旅游业
3N-COUNT [usually singular]产业;声势浩大的活动 If you refer to a social or political activity as an industry, you are criticizing it because you think it involves a lot of people in unnecessary or useless work. 产业;声势浩大的活动 [disapproval]
Some Afro-Caribbeans are rejecting the whole race relations industry.
一些加勒比黑人在抵制整个种族关系运动。
The multibillion-dollar fitness industry rakes in fat profits from our hunger to look good.
数十亿美元的健身产业利用我们的爱美之心赚取巨额利润。
4N-UNCOUNT 勤劳;勤奋Industry is the fact of working very hard. 勤劳;勤奋 [formal]
No one doubted his ability, his industry or his integrity.
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wiseBible: Proverbs
Where there is no desire, there will be no industryJohn LockeSome Thoughts Concerning Education
Avarice, the spur of industryDavid HumeEssays, Moral and Political: Of Civil Liberty
If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiencyJoshua ReynoldsDiscourses on Art