1. to cause a country, region, or local economy to lose its factories and manufactu
1.動詞及物 / 不及物C1
釋義
去工業化
使國家或地區減少工業生產
to cause a country, region, or local economy to lose its factories and manufacturing ability, so that it depends less on making physical goods for jobs and income
例句
After the mill closed, Eleanor's family left the deindustrialized town to find work elsewhere.
磨坊關閉後，Eleanor 一家人離開這個去工業化的小鎮，到別處找工作。
passive: be deindustrialized + town/region as subject
The trade agreement deindustrialized the English Midlands by making car production too expensive.
這項貿易協定讓英國中部地區去工業化，汽車生產變得過於昂貴。
transitive: deindustrialize + place + by + cause
Kwame's hometown was deindustrialized when the tire plant shut down in 2002.
Kwame 的家鄉在 2002 年輪胎工廠關閉後，就經歷了去工業化。
City official Nadia warned that losing the port would deindustrialize the coastal region.
市政府官員 Nadia 警告，失去港口將使整個沿海地區去工業化。
threat/warning construction: would deindustrialize + place
The Sheffield area was deindustrialized as coal mines and steelworks closed in the 1980s.
the opposite process — building up a region's manufacturing capacity
文法句型
deindustrialize + place/economy
passive: [place] was deindustrialized
be + deindustrialized + by + cause
用法筆記
Often used in the passive voice because deindustrialization is typically described as something that happens to a place, not something people choose. The subject is usually a region, city, or economic sector — not a single company or person.
常見錯誤
The small bakery was deindustrialized by the supermarket.
The small bakery went out of business because of the supermarket.
'deindustrialize' applies to a whole region or economic sector, not a single small business.
They deindustrialized the old factory building.
They deindustrialized the region when they closed the factory.
The verb describes what happens to an area's economy, not what happens to one building.