In a few years the small workshop had become a large factory which employed seven hundred and twenty-eight people.
几年之后，小铺子已经发展成了一个雇有728人的大工厂。
新概念英语第二册
Lesson 31 Success story
📚 句中词汇解析
从本句中提取的重要词汇
n. 工厂，制造厂;<古>代理店;
💡 fact做+ory场所 → 做东西的场所 → 工厂
"Before you start to work, I'll show you around the factory."
开始工作前, 我要先领你参观工厂.
近义：industry, installation, mill, plant, works
n. 人，人类;居民;人民;种族;
vt. 居住于，布满;使住满人，在…殖民;把动物放养在;
💡 popul, publ 表”人民”
"I can't abide people with no sense of humour."
我讨厌和没有幽默感的人打交道。
近义：populate, settle, crowd, individuals, persons, folks
反义：person, single, subject, dude, bleeder, bloke
n. 二十，二十个;二十多岁;二十年代;许多，大量;
num. 二十;
adj. 二十的;
💡 twen=two二+ty十 → 二十
"The farmer picked twenty pears."
农民摘掉了二十个梨子。
vi. 变为，成为;变得;变成;
vt. 适合，适宜;相称，相当;变成;发生;
💡 be(upon)+come→变为；成为(=to come upon）
"In a world that had suddenly become alien and dangerous, he was her only security."
在一个突然变得陌生而危险的世界里，他是她唯一的守护神。
近义：turn, wax, get, go, grow, suit
反义：remain, keep, stay, get
adj. 小的;难为情的;低级的，卑劣的;细微的，微弱的;
adv. 小小地;卑鄙地;
n. 细小部分，腰部;琐碎东西;身份低的人;矮小的人;
"These small particles agglomerate together to form larger clusters."
这些颗粒聚结形成较大的团。
近义：little, meager, meagre, minute, reduced, scanty
反义：large, major, sizeable, sizable, some, capital