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单词 carpenter
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carpenter
noun[C]
uk
/ˈkɑː.pɪn.tər/us
/ˈkɑːr.pɪn.t̬ɚ/
apersonwhosejobis making andrepairingwoodenobjectsandstructures
木匠；木工
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joiner(WOOD WORKER)
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(Definition ofcarpenterfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
Examples from literature
  • Ata Owoo was a carpenter who lived in the West African country of Ghana.
  • Once the set designer creates the plan, artists and carpenters make different parts of the set.
  • Stagehands and carpenters put the sets together on stage.
  • The carpenter built a wooden chair for the set of a play.
  • I could see the carpenters, whose hammers I had heard, at work upon the roof of the barn, now destined to do double duty as a stable and garage.
  • Meanwhile, the carpenters hammered and the scenes rose.
  • That shamed the masons and carpenters into giving their Saturday afternoons for repair work.
  • The tools used by the carpenters, as appear from the representations on the monuments, were the axe, the adze, the hand-saw, the chisel, the drill, and the plane.
  • When he became a young man, however, he had sense enough to choose the carpenter's trade, instead of the painter's art.

carpenter| American Dictionary

carpenter
noun[C]
us
/ˈkɑr·pən·tər/
apersonwhosejobis making andrepairingwoodenobjectsandstructures
(Definition ofcarpenterfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

carpenter| Business English

carpenter
noun[C]
uk
/ˈkɑːpəntər/us
apersonwhosejobis making andrepairingwoodenobjectsandstructures:
Aself-employedboatrepairer and carpenter, he haddifficultygetting amortgage.
(Definition ofcarpenterfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcarpenter

carpenter
Each contract is then signed by thecarpenter, with later contracts also being signed by witnesses.
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I briefly toured with them as mastercarpenterand property master.
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They were surprised at their level of success, particularly over the caretakers, and managed to win a week's holiday with pay for the board's carpenters.
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This means that thecarpenterstarted working when the foundations had already been completed more than a month earlier.
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The hearer knows what airplanes are, what carpenter's tools are, and what planar surfaces are.
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Their fathers' occupations, to give three examples, had been a construction worker, acarpenterand a caretaker.
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However, a reference in a carpenter's bill, discussed below, leads us to think that there were other, more substantial dressing rooms.
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The bared teeth of two workmen - acarpenterand a man carrying a bucket - signify their low station.
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A good blacksmith orcarpentercould also probably expect a better standard of living.
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Continuities also exist at the level of individual trades, as carpenters, masons, shoemakers and drapers' assistants were prominent in both periods.
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Various possibilities were explored, but it soon became apparent that the most promising involved working with local blacksmiths and carpenters to produce tools.
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And with good reason, for those carpenters had been in constant conflict with employers for more than two years.
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The military specifications were precise and engineering skills would be needed in conjunction with those of loggers, sawyers, carpenters, fitters, iron smiths, and painters.
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Some of them may have worked on the castles as masons or carpenters.
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At a more prosaic level, what were the instructions to carpenters to achieve the superb timber detail?
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Collocationswithcarpenter

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carpenter ant
It is also the byproduct of certain animals, birds and insects which live in wood, such as the woodpecker andcarpenterant.
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carpenter shop
At the time, there was laundry, sewing, shoe-repair, electrical, clock departments, and thecarpentershop.
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local carpenter
In my constituency some of the most active members in local government circles are self-employed local craftsmen—the local blacksmith and thelocalcarpenter.
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