Artificer
[ɑː'tɪfɪsə] or [ɑr'tɪfəsɚ]
解释:
(n.) An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one whose occupation requires skill or knowledge of a particular kind, as a silversmith.
(n.) One who makes or contrives; a deviser, inventor, or framer.
(n.) A cunning or artful fellow.
(n.) A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory.
乔迪校对
同义词及近义词：
n. Artist (not of the highest grade), manufacturer, superior artisan, skilful mechanic, TRADESMAN.
埃尔温整理
例句:
- Each tradesman or artificer derives his subsistence from the employment, not of one, but of a hundred or a thousand different customers. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- A journeyman blacksmith, though an artificer, seldom earns so much in twelve hours, as a collier, who is only a labourer, does in eight. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- A shepherd has a great deal of leisure; a husbandman, in the rude state of husbandry, has some; an artificer or manufacturer has none at all. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Some part of the capital of every master artificer or manufacturer must be fixed in the instruments of his trade. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- D?dalus (= cunning artificer) was a sort of personified summary of mechanical skill. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- No independent workman, it is evident, whether labourer or artificer, is likely to gain any new settlement, either by apprenticeship or by service. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The civilisation of to-day would not have been possible if the successors of Tubal Cain had not been like him, instructors of every artificer in brass and iron. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- But have you remarked that sight is by far the most costly and complex piece of workmanship which the artificer of the senses ever contrived? 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Almost every class of artificers is subject to some peculiar infirmity occasioned by excessive application to their peculiar species of work. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- But the public would be a gainer, the work of all artificers coming in this way much cheaper to market. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- It is the labour of artificers and manufacturers only of which the free circulation is obstructed by corporation laws. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The condition of artificers is, if possible, still worse. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Neither may they imitate smiths or other artificers, or oarsmen, or boatswains, or the like? 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Secondly, it seems, on this account, altogether improper to consider artificers, manufacturers, and merchants, in the same light as menial servants. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The farmer attempts to make neither the one nor the other, but employs those different artificers. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The labour of artificers and manufacturers never adds any thing to the value of the whole annual amount of the rude produce of the land. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The labour, on the contrary, of artificers, manufacturers, and merchants, naturally does fix and realize itself in some such vendible commodity. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
整理:温弗雷德