1. （通常指大量）制造，生产
    To manufacture something means to make it in a factory, usually in large quantities.

    e.g. They manufacture the class of plastics known as thermoplastic materials...
           他们生产这类被称为热塑材料的塑料制品。
    e.g. The first three models are being manufactured at the factory in Ashton-under-Lyne...
           最初的3种型号在阿什顿安德莱恩的工厂生产。

2. 产品；制造品;工业品
    Manufactures are goods or products which have been made in a factory.

    e.g. ...a long-term rise in the share of manufactures in nonoil exports.
           非石油出口产品中工业品份额的长期增长

3. 虚构;捏造
    If you say that someone manufactures information, you are criticizing them because they invent information that is not true.

    e.g. According to the prosecution, the officers manufactured an elaborate story...
           根据控方意见，官员们精心编造了事情经过。
    e.g. He said the allegations were manufactured on the flimsiest evidence.
           他说这些指控都是凭空捏造的。