核心畫面

Picture a factory line turning out the same thing over and over: raw material in, finished goods out, at scale. The word keeps that industrial feel wherever it goes — a body producing a substance inside itself, and, with a sharper edge, someone producing a story that never happened.

可以想成:工廠的生產線一件接一件地做出同樣的東西——原料進去,成品出來,而且量很大。這股「工業化生產」的味道跟著這個更多收起可以想成:工廠的生產線一件接一件地做出同樣的東西——原料進去,成品出來,而且量很大。這股「工業化生產」的味道跟著這個字到處走:身體在體內製造某種物質是它,某人「生產」出一個根本沒發生過的說法也是它,只是後者帶著批評的意思。

From the picture

身體自己製造出來

把工廠的畫面搬進生物體內:細胞就是那條生產線,一樣是把原料變成成品。

produce (in the body) · verb · B2

if a living thing manufactures a substance, its body makes that substance by itself.

生成;製造(體內)

編造出一套說法

生產的對象換成理由或故事:不是自然發生的,是有人刻意做出來的。正因為借用了工廠的畫面,這個用法本身就帶著「人工、假造」的評價。

invent; fabricate (a story) · verb · B2

to invent a story or reason that is not true, so that other people will believe it.

捏造;編造

Also in this word

manufacture (make goods) · verb · B1

to make goods in large amounts in a factory, using machines.

製造;生產

manufacturing (process) · noun · B1

the making of goods in large amounts in a factory.

製造(過程)

manufactured goods · noun · C1

goods that have been made in factories, especially when writing about trade between countries.

製成品;工業產品

原始詞典資料7 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,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。

manufacturenoun/ˌmænjuˈfækt͡ʃɚ/

  • 1

    The action or process of making goods systematically or on a large scale.

    • After years of exporting the gum base to be used as an ingredient in the manufacture of regular chewing gum, the cooperative recently decided to start making its own gum using only chicle gum base and natural flavorings and sweeteners, Chicza said.
  • 2

    Anything made, formed or produced; product.

    • The roads [are] crowded with carriers, laden with rich manufactures.
    • Thus, a patented manufacture should be either better in quality or cheaper in cost than that which it is intended to supplant.
  • 3

    The process of such production; generation, creation.

    • Our lawgivers take special pride in the ever active manufacture of new bills and laws.
  • 4

    hobbieshorologylifestyleA watch manufacturer that makes its own parts, rather than assembling watches from parts obtained from other firms.

manufactureverb/ˌmænjuˈfækt͡ʃɚ/

  • 1

    To make things, usually on a large scale, with tools and either physical labor or machinery.

    • Scientists are learning how to manufacture sperm and egg cells from other types of cell; others are developing "alternative" wombs
    • An effort was made to fit the flexible tube at least 3 mm deep onto the vasculature; (2) for the remaining systems, 3D-printed polyethylene terephthalate (PET) reservoir blocks were manufactured by PrintPlace using FDM technology. The additively manufactured PET reservoir blocks were previously applied and proven to effectively circulate the agent through the healing network [6].
  • 2

    To work (raw or partly wrought materials) into suitable forms for use.

    • to manufacture wool into blankets
    • The instrument of this dumbing down in Nineteen Eighty-Four was Newspeak, the official language of the English Socialist Party (Ingsoc). Newspeak was a sort of Totalitarian Esperanto that sought gradually to diminish the range of what was thinkable by eliminating, contracting and manufacturing words.
  • 3

    derogatoryTo fabricate; to create false evidence to support a point.

    • The collegian keeps manufacturing new excuses for their tardiness.
    • Digital technology has made it so easy to manufacture lies that it's become difficult to separate fact from fiction.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。