manufacture
verbVerb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they manufacture | |
| he / she / it manufactures | |
| past simple manufactured | |
| past participle manufactured | |
| -ing form manufacturing |
- manufacture something
to make goods in large quantities, using machines （用機器）大量生産，成批制造 manufactured goods 工業品 This company manufactures the equipment used to make contact lenses. 這家公司生産用以制造隐形眼鏡片的設備。
- manufacture something
to invent a story, an excuse, etc. 編造；捏造 a news story manufactured by an unscrupulous journalist 一個不道德的記者編造的一篇新聞報道
Extra ExamplesThe evidence against him had been largely manufactured. 對他不利的證據大部分是僞造的。 There were claims that the entire row had been manufactured by the press. 有人聲稱整排都是由新聞界制造的。
- manufacture something (specialist)
to produce a substance 生成，産生（一種物質）
Word Originmid 16th cent. (as noun, denoting something made by hand): from French (re-formed by association with Latin manu factum ‘made by hand’), from Italian manifattura. The verb dates from the mid 17th cent.