Cartwright
['kɑːtraɪt] or ['kɑrt,raɪt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a workman who makes and repairs carts and wagons.
(noun.) English clergyman who invented the power loom (1743-1823).
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解釋/意思:
(n.) An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Well, now, Sir Humphry Davy; I dined with him years ago at Cartwright's, and Wordsworth was there too--the poet Wordsworth, you know. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Five men were in it--these four and a fifth called Cartwright. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Cartwright, of England, foresaw and met this demand in his _power loom_, in which all of the intricate operations were performed by power-driven machinery. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Edward Cartwright, who, turning his attention to _looms_, invented the first loom run by machinery, the _first power loom_, 1784-85. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- I was at Cambridge when Wordsworth was there, and I never met him--and I dined with him twenty years afterwards at Cartwright's. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- On his evidence Cartwright was hanged and the other three got fifteen years apiece. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
編輯:珀西