词汇 | smith |
释义 | smith noun[ C ], suffix uk /smɪθ/ us /smɪθ/ someone who makes things out of metal, especially by heating it and hitting it with a hammer: 铁匠,锻工 a goldsmith/silversmith金匠/银匠 See also blacksmith Chemistry: metals & metalworking alloy anti-tarnish bar magnet base metal bimetallic blacksmith brazen brazier bullion ferrous gold leaf lode magnet silver plate swage tarnished tinplated untarnished vermeil wrought iron Examples of smithsmith The smith is the ultimate sorcerer, who - while being visibly forging - is dealing with invisible forces which he masters or manipulates. Hunters have to pay a certain tribute in meat in return for the new arrowheads they receive from the smith. The banks have the unique ability to costlessly smith gold into a single gold consumption good. Finally, banks smith the gold into the gold consumption good, and it is withdrawn and consumed by the depositors-intermediate-goods producers. The smith not only is a kind of obstetrician, helping 'to deliver' the iron, he is also a carnivore. Still, the smiths are very much respected and feared. This smith-without-strength is unable to create, to transform matter, to generate. By the early 1930s, however, the image of the smith had begun to fade or even drop out altogether. The smith is also one of the strongest sorcerers (mologre). The analogy between the poet and smith turned only on the lesson that the fact of each man's labor could provide to others. Changes also occurred in the assemblage, as smiths were able to craft harder and more durable awls and needles from the new alloys. Their fishermen, hunters, and husbandmen, brought in their stores and delicacies : their smiths, carpenters, and weavers, and believe me, there are such among them, displayed their curious manufactures. Yet the knowledge they yield is a far cry from that of, say, the stonemason, smith, potter or carpenter, which comes from a lifetime's experience of working with the material. Binham held a weekly market and annual fair which attracted numerous craftsmen; tanners, carpenters, smiths and tailors, to the parish. Smith argues that industrialization and regular employment only complicate matters. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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