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单词 smokestack industry
释义
smokestack industry
noun[C]
mainlyUS
uk
/ˈsməʊk.stæk ˌɪn.də.stri/us
/ˈsmoʊk.stæk ˌɪn.də.stri/
atraditionalindustrythatproduceslargemachinesormaterialsused in otherindustriesandcreatespollutionin doing so:
烟囱工业，（传统的污染严重的）重工业
There's been asteadydeclineinsmokestackindustriessuch asshipbuildingandsteel.造船和钢铁等重污染工业正在稳步减少。
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(Definition ofsmokestack industryfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

smokestack industry| Business English

smokestack industry
noun[C]
uk
us
PRODUCTION,NATURAL RESOURCES
anindustryinvolvedin making things usingprocessesthatburna lot ofcoaloroilandproducea lot ofpollution:
Unlikeoldsmokestackindustriesthatstagnatedin the 1970s and 1980s, thetechfieldisstronganddiverse.
Thetransitionfrom thesmokestackindustriesof the past has beenpainful, butnecessary.
(Definition ofsmokestack industryfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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That fight was not a fight for asmokestackindustry.
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This is not asmokestackindustryto be decently buried; it is not a lame duck industry producing an unwanted product at an unacceptable price.
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The shipping industry is emphatically not asmokestackindustrythat is simply looking for handouts.
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It is not asmokestackindustrythat has been gradually run down.
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We need a new maritime policy which should recognised that shipbuilding is not asmokestackindustryor a thing of the past.
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So is the fact that local air and water quality tends to improve with the expansion of the service sector and the relocation of smokestack industries.
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But this increase in scale brought coal mining into the same economic sphere as the other smokestack industries of the time, including the railroads and iron manufacturing.
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We were often told that changes were inevitable as old outdated smokestack industries declined.
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I said that our labour-intensive, smokestack industries had been replaced by modern industry.
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It is no longer viable for smokestack industries to operate under outdated practices.
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Work used to be in the old smokestack industries, which were not conducive to women.
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The north-west has a proud record in new industries and new technologies, but too often it is linked with the smokestack industries of the past.
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They always look back to the old smokestack industries.
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Some people talk about some of our older established industries almost with contempt, calling them the smokestack industries.
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It is not an answer simply to say that it is the old smokestack industries that are in decline.
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