Weaver
['wiːvə] or ['wivɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) finch-like African and Asian colonial birds noted for their elaborately woven nests.
(noun.) a craftsman who weaves cloth.
校對:杜鲁门--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) One who weaves, or whose occupation is to weave.
(n.) A weaver bird.
(n.) An aquatic beetle of the genus Gyrinus. See Whirling.
手打:奥利
例句/造句/用法:
- The Antinomian weaver? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- 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. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- But the greatest curiosity, upon which the fate of the island depends, is a loadstone of a prodigious size, in shape resembling a weaver's shuttle. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- There must be first a husbandman, secondly a builder, thirdly a weaver, to which may be added a cobbler. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- This gave a much more rapid action than could be obtained by hand-throwing, and enabled one weaver to do the work of two or three. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- A country weaver, who cultivates a small farm, must loose a good deal of time in passing from his loom to the field, and from the field to his loom. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- A journeyman weaver earns less than a journeyman smith. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- He was a good power-loom weaver, and a man of perfect integrity. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- In the price of linen we must add to this price the wages of the flax-dresser, of the spinner, of the weaver, of the bleacher, etc. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Neither will the builder make his tools--and he too needs many; and in like manner the weaver and shoemaker. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- For instance, how would you like to meet Michael Hartley, that mad Calvinist and Jacobin weaver? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- That's what folk call fine and honourable in a soldier, and why not in a poor weaver-chap? 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- The smith erects some sort of iron, the weaver some sort of linen or woollen manufactory. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- In Norfolk and Norwich, no master weaver can have more than two apprentices, under pain of forfeiting five pounds a-month to the king. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Thus in most places, take the year round, a journeyman tailor earns less than a journeyman weaver. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- This improvement put weaving ahead of spinning, and the weavers were continually calling on the spindlers for more weft yarns. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- If we was not in a muddle among ourseln, I should'n ha' been, by my own fellow weavers and workin' brothers, so mistook. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- What a comparison between the work of the virtuous Penelopes and the weavers of a century ago and to-day! 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- And the employer of the weavers would require alike five per cent. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- It is not by the sale of their work, but by that of the complete work of the weavers, that our great master manufacturers make their profits. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- If, in the linen manufacture, for example, the wages of the different working people, the flax-dressers, the spinners, the weavers, etc. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- He fell into suspicion,' said Louisa, 'with his fellow-weavers, because—he had made a promise not to be one of them. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- It had crossed the Atlantic on a voyage of 4,000 miles in extent, laden with dyestuffs to supply the needs of American weavers. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Half-a-dozen wool-combers, perhaps, are necessary to keep a thousand spinners and weavers at work. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- I see nothing to succeed us but a race of weavers. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- He was studying hard how to get up a machine to meet the weavers' demands for cotton yarns. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- But the same number of spinners or weavers will every year produce the same, or very nearly the same, quantity of linen and woollen cloth. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
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