industrializing

/ɪnˈdʌs.tri.ə.laɪz/ (bre, ipa) · [ˌɪndˈʌstriəlˌaɪzɪŋ] /ɪnˈdʌs.tri.ə.laɪz/ (ame, ipa)

industrializing — 動詞

  • industrializingpresent simple I / you / we / they
  • industrializings3rd person singular
  • industrializinging-ing form
  • industrializingedpast simple

1. to bring more factories and large-scale production into a place or activity, or

1.動詞及物 / 不及物C1
釋義

工業化

發展工業或轉向工業生產

to bring more factories and large-scale production into a place or activity, or to change so that industry becomes more important there.

例句

The government is industrializing the coastal region with new steel and shipbuilding plants.

政府正藉由新建鋼鐵廠和造船廠，推動沿海地區工業化。

transitive: industrializing + object (region)

Devika's hometown is industrializing quickly as textile mills replace old rice fields.

隨著紡織廠取代舊稻田，Devika 的家鄉正迅速工業化。

intransitive: place + be industrializing

同義詞
  • modernize

    broader and can include transport, education, or systems without adding heavy industry

  • mechanize

    focuses on replacing manual work with machines, not on wider economic change

  • develop

    much broader and does not specifically suggest factory-based growth

反義詞
  • deindustrialize

    describes losing factories or industrial jobs rather than building them up

文法句型

industrializing + object (region, economy, workshop)

place/economy + be industrializing

用法筆記

Subject is often a country, region, government, port, or business. In transitive use, someone actively pushes a place or activity toward factory production; in intransitive use, the place itself is changing in that direction.

常見錯誤

❌The city is industrializing many factories.
✅The city is industrializing rapidly.' / 'The government is industrializing the city.
💡Use the transitive pattern with a place, region, or economy, not with the factories themselves.