Artificer

(n.) An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one whose occupation requires skill or knowledge of a particular kind, as a silversmith.

(n.) One who makes or contrives; a deviser, inventor, or framer.

(n.) A cunning or artful fellow.

(n.) A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory.

乔迪校对

• Each tradesman or artificer derives his subsistence from the employment, not of one, but of a hundred or a thousand different customers. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• A journeyman blacksmith, though an artificer, seldom earns so much in twelve hours, as a collier, who is only a labourer, does in eight. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• A shepherd has a great deal of leisure; a husbandman, in the rude state of husbandry, has some; an artificer or manufacturer has none at all. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Some part of the capital of every master artificer or manufacturer must be fixed in the instruments of his trade. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• D?dalus (= cunning artificer) was a sort of personified summary of mechanical skill. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• No independent workman, it is evident, whether labourer or artificer, is likely to gain any new settlement, either by apprenticeship or by service. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The civilisation of to-day would not have been possible if the successors of Tubal Cain had not been like him, instructors of every artificer in brass and iron. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• But have you remarked that sight is by far the most costly and complex piece of workmanship which the artificer of the senses ever contrived? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Almost every class of artificers is subject to some peculiar infirmity occasioned by excessive application to their peculiar species of work. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• But the public would be a gainer, the work of all artificers coming in this way much cheaper to market. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• It is the labour of artificers and manufacturers only of which the free circulation is obstructed by corporation laws. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The condition of artificers is, if possible, still worse. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Neither may they imitate smiths or other artificers, or oarsmen, or boatswains, or the like? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Secondly, it seems, on this account, altogether improper to consider artificers, manufacturers, and merchants, in the same light as menial servants. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The farmer attempts to make neither the one nor the other, but employs those different artificers. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The labour of artificers and manufacturers never adds any thing to the value of the whole annual amount of the rude produce of the land. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The labour, on the contrary, of artificers, manufacturers, and merchants, naturally does fix and realize itself in some such vendible commodity. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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