Tailor
['teɪlə] or ['telɚ]
解释:
(noun.) a person whose occupation is making and altering garments.
(verb.) adjust to a specific need or market; 'a magazine oriented towards young people'; 'tailor your needs to your surroundings'.
手打:梅格--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) One whose occupation is to cut out and make men's garments; also, one who cuts out and makes ladies' outer garments.
(n.) The mattowacca; -- called also tailor herring.
(n.) The silversides.
(n.) The goldfish.
(v. i.) To practice making men's clothes; to follow the business of a tailor.
班森编辑
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Maker of men's clothes.[2]. (Ich.) Blue-fish, ship-jack, snapping mackerel (Temnodon saltator).
编辑:帕特里克
解释:
n. one whose business is to cut out and make men's clothes:—fem. Tail′oress.—v.i. to work as a tailor.—v.t. to make clothes for.—ns. Tail′or-bird one of several Oriental small passerine birds which sew leaves together to form a nest: Tail′oring the business or work of a tailor.—adj. Tail′or-made made by a tailor esp. of plain close-fitting garments for women in imitation of men's.
凯瑟琳整理
娱乐性解释：
To dream of a tailor, denotes that worries will arise on account of some journey to be made. To have a misunderstanding with one, shows that you will be disappointed in the outcome of some scheme. For one to take your measure, denotes that you will have quarrels and disagreements.
贝丝编辑
娱乐性解释：
One who takes your measure on first sight, gives you a fit, sews you up and follows suit until paid.
手打:莎伦
例句:
- He had been a tailor in his time, and had kept a phaeton, he said. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- We have seen that Pasteur was the son of a tanner, Priestley of a cloth-maker, Dalton of a weaver, Lambert of a tailor, Kant of a saddler, Watt of a shipbuilde r, Smith of a farmer. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- The tailor does not attempt to make his own shoes, but buys them of the shoemaker. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- This part, however, is very small in some, and very great in others, A master tailor requires no other instruments of trade but a parcel of needles. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- I even distinguished that one of them was marked with the name of 'Hyams,' who was Oldacres tailor. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- We'll make the coats of some of these soldiers redder than ever the tailor did. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- He's a tailor by trade. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- The tailors of Boston to whom he showed it were willing to admit its efficiency, but told him that he could never secure its general use, as such a proceeding would ruin their business. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- The university of smiths, the university of tailors, etc. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Three hundred tailors were employed in the same manner to make me clothes; but they had another contrivance for taking my measure. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- Edison says: I get a suit that fits me; then I compel the tailors to use that as a jig or pattern or blue-print to make others by. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- The Singer machine met the demands of the tailoring and leather industries for a heavier and more powerful machine. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
编辑:西尔维亚