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watchmaker

/woch-mey-ker/US // ˈwɒtʃˌmeɪ kər //UK // (ˈwɒtʃˌmeɪkə) //

钟表师,钟表匠,钟表商,制表师

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person whose occupation it is to make and repair watches.

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Examples

  • While not all 86 million maintain positions of governance or public service, the Party's machinery runs on watchmaker precision.

  • Paley goes on to compare the watch to an eye, arguing that if a watch implies a watchmaker, then an eye implies an eye-maker.

  • A Rush novel arrives only once a decade, as the invisible watchmaker puts everything in its right place.

  • The baker and his wife, the grocer, the—the—the—watchmaker—the—shoemaker—the—the druggist with Mrs. Druggist.

  • The old Scots knight next attacked the watchmaker with the same disrespectful familiarity.

  • Thus pondering, she moved forward with hasty strides until she arrived at the watchmaker's habitation.

  • Mary's father, Walter Gray, was employed at a watchmaker's of repute.

  • The inference from a watch to a watchmaker is clearly conclusive.