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typewriter

/tahyp-rahy-ter/US // ˈtaɪpˌraɪ tər //UK // (ˈtaɪpˌraɪtə) //

打字机,打印机,打字员,敲击机

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a machine for writing mechanically in letters and characters like those produced by printers' types.
    • : Printing. a type style that gives the appearance of typewritten copy.
    • : Older Use. a typist.

Examples

  • The lilting melody is interrupted by the clacking of a typewriter, as Dylan hammers out lyrics, smokes a cigarette and chats with manager Albert Grossman.

  • My father had this typewriter when he’s 90, and he always had a ribbon.

  • Arthur Scherbius, Enigma’s inventor, built what looked like a close relative of a typewriter.

  • He used a Braille typewriter early in his career but spent decades working with amanuenses, dictating to them pages that he wrote in his head and revised out loud — millions of words in all, spanning 27 books.

  • Even before he graduated, he took a job at the commissioners’ office, hired in 1889 as a “stenographer and typewriter.”

  • Back when Sam went upstate, job searches required nothing more than a typewriter, some paper, and the classifieds.

  • The most popular gift in Hollywood this Christmas is a typewriter.

  • The boxes are not arranged alphabetically, and a printer learns the case as one learns the typewriter keyboard.

  • Arbor House is paying Leonard $3 million for Freaky Deaky, the one in the typewriter now, and the one after it.

  • Slightly deeper, a man sits alone at a table with a typewriter—The Lost Correspondent.

  • I was here a little while ago and nobody answered my knock, though I could hear that typewriter going rat, tat, tat all the time.

  • As it was vacation week, she let Jess go right ahead to settle things while she stuck to the typewriter.

  • The lieutenants and sergeants flushed; the girl privates jumped their fingers onto typewriter keys.

  • She'd had the clatter of my typewriter dinned into her pretty ears all day, and she knew who I was, even if it was dark.

  • Isal-ub (sal-úba) ang hapin sa makinilya, Put the cover on the typewriter.