逐日单词：manufacture

manufacture /?m?nju?f?kt??(r)/

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外刊例句

The industry boasts no giants comparable to those in aircraftmanufacture or pharmaceuticals, let alone computing; no solar company has a market capitalisation of more than $10bn, and no solar ceo is in danger of being recognised on the street.

该行业没有能与飞机制造或制药行业相提并论的巨头，更不必说盘算机行业了。没有一家太阳能公司的市值凌驾100亿美元，也没有哪位太阳能公司的首席实行官能容易被群众记取。

——《经济学人》

基本释义

manufacture: To manufacture something means to make it in a factory, usually in large quantities. In economics, manufactures are goods or products which have been made in a factory.

v/n. 制造（业）；加工；产业品

追根溯源

单词manufacture里的词根manu，泉源于拉丁语manus，表现“手”。以是，在英语里包含man/manu的单词，多与“手、利用”干系：

manual /?m?nju?l/ n.分析书；小册子

maneuver /m?'n?v?/ vt.练习；调遣

manicure /?m?n?kj??(r)/ v.修剪，美甲

manipulate /m??n?pjule?t/ vt.利用，利用

manuscript /?m?njuskr?pt/ n.手稿

词根fact表现“做”，ure是稀有的名词或动词后缀，以是，manu（手，利用）+fact（做）+ure（名词或动词）=手工做出来的东西、制造→产物、产业品，制造。