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发音：[ɪnˈdʌstriəs]
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例句：
- The word industrious means hardworking, diligent, and productive, often going beyond expectations to achieve goals and complete tasks efficiently.
- Through his industrious efforts, Darwin built a reputation as a capable scientist, publishing works on geology as well as studies of coral reefs and barnacles still considered definitive today.
- On top of that, ever-industrious humans have produced artificial magnetic fields with power lines, transport systems, electrical appliances, and medical equipment.
- From Warren E. Buffett, who says he won the “Ovarian Lottery,” to the venture capitalist Fred Wilson, a lot of smart, industrious and hard-working people admit that luck played a role.
- It is entirely reasonable for every industrious and diligent person in our society to expect access to dignified, important and adequately compensated work.
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解释：
- Industrious这个单词做形容词使用，其表示“hardworking, diligent, and productive”这一含义，即“勤奋的/勤劳的/忙碌的”，与diligent/hardworking/assiduous这些单词构成近义词。
- 具体使用如下：
- The Chinese are intelligent, industrious, products of a superior, disciplined education system.（中国人是聪明、勤奋的，是优越、纪律严明的教育体系的产物。）
—Culture - Lions were regal and courageous; peacocks were proud; ants were industrious; foxes were cunning.（狮子是富丽堂皇和勇敢的;孔雀很自豪;蚂蚁勤劳;狐狸很狡猾。）
—Biology - Asian immigrants face the added burden of the “model minority” stereotype that portrays them as industrious, law-abiding and uncomplaining, and ascribes their achievements to those traits, historians and advocates say.（历史学家和倡导者说，亚洲移民面临着“模范少数族裔”刻板印象的额外负担，这种刻板印象将他们描绘成勤劳、守法和无怨无悔的人，并将他们的成就归因于这些特征。）
—Society - The small European nation is known for its Alps, prosperity, chocolates, lakes, peerless public transport, timepieces and industrious people with Calvinist traditions.（这个欧洲小国以其阿尔卑斯山、繁荣、巧克力、湖泊、无与伦比的公共交通、钟表和具有加尔文主义传统的勤劳人民而闻名。）
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