The Factory
工廠
Do you know where people make crackers, cloth, pencils, cell phones or cars? In factories.
你知道人們在哪兒生產餅干,衣服,鉛筆,手機或汽車嗎?在工廠。
A factory is a place where people make things with machines.
工廠是人們用機器生產物品的地方。
For example, car factories make cars using hundreds of machines.
例如,汽車廠用成千上萬臺機器生產汽車。
Hundreds of workers work in factories, too.
很多工人也在工廠工作。
Are all factories big? No, they are not.
所有的工廠都很大嗎?不是的。
Some small factories only have one machine and one person.
有的小工廠只有一臺機器和一個工人。
Factories are very important for our lives.
工廠對我們的生活非常重要。
If there were no factories, things would be too expensive.
如果沒有工廠,東西會很貴。
Also, a lot of factory workers would lose their jobs.
很多工人也會失業。