He also wanted to create what he called a hit factory, an idea he got from working for the Ford Motor Company.

VOA: special.2009.05.11

That is a way of putting a cloned gene into a micro-organism and then using that micro-organism as sort of a factory for the protein.

这方法把克隆基因植入微生物之后,将其作为某种形式的蛋白质工厂

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Readymade, factory-made cloth for a woman, a housewife, who isn't making her own cloth anymore.

他们向家庭主妇们推销工厂生产的服装,她们再不用手工自制衣服了

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The sociologist says she was looking for individuals who reported becoming jobless for reasons out of their control, such as a factory closing.

VOA: special.2009.06.09

Here's an example of using a large animal by inserting the gene that you're interested in, you can make this animal into a factory for the kind of protein that you would like to make.

这就是一个通过植入你所感兴趣的,基因来利用大型动物的例子,你同样能把这些动物变为,你所需要的目标蛋白的加工厂

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

In this way,he prevented Hershey,Pennsylvania from becoming a factory town in which the workers were forced to pay their employers for a place to live.

VOA: special.2010.12.05