Weaver

(noun.) finch-like African and Asian colonial birds noted for their elaborately woven nests.

(noun.) a craftsman who weaves cloth.

校对:杜鲁门

• The Antinomian weaver? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• We have seen that Pasteur was the son of a tanner, Priestley of a cloth-maker, Dalton of a weaver, Lambert of a tailor, Kant of a saddler, Watt of a shipbuilde r, Smith of a farmer. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• But the greatest curiosity, upon which the fate of the island depends, is a loadstone of a prodigious size, in shape resembling a weaver's shuttle. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• There must be first a husbandman, secondly a builder, thirdly a weaver, to which may be added a cobbler. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• This gave a much more rapid action than could be obtained by hand-throwing, and enabled one weaver to do the work of two or three. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• A country weaver, who cultivates a small farm, must loose a good deal of time in passing from his loom to the field, and from the field to his loom. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• A journeyman weaver earns less than a journeyman smith. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• He was a good power-loom weaver, and a man of perfect integrity. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• In the price of linen we must add to this price the wages of the flax-dresser, of the spinner, of the weaver, of the bleacher, etc. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Neither will the builder make his tools--and he too needs many; and in like manner the weaver and shoemaker. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• For instance, how would you like to meet Michael Hartley, that mad Calvinist and Jacobin weaver? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• That's what folk call fine and honourable in a soldier, and why not in a poor weaver-chap? 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• The smith erects some sort of iron, the weaver some sort of linen or woollen manufactory. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• In Norfolk and Norwich, no master weaver can have more than two apprentices, under pain of forfeiting five pounds a-month to the king. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Thus in most places, take the year round, a journeyman tailor earns less than a journeyman weaver. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• This improvement put weaving ahead of spinning, and the weavers were continually calling on the spindlers for more weft yarns. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• If we was not in a muddle among ourseln, I should'n ha' been, by my own fellow weavers and workin' brothers, so mistook. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• What a comparison between the work of the virtuous Penelopes and the weavers of a century ago and to-day! 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• And the employer of the weavers would require alike five per cent. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• It is not by the sale of their work, but by that of the complete work of the weavers, that our great master manufacturers make their profits. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• If, in the linen manufacture, for example, the wages of the different working people, the flax-dressers, the spinners, the weavers, etc. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• He fell into suspicion,' said Louisa, 'with his fellow-weavers, because—he had made a promise not to be one of them. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• It had crossed the Atlantic on a voyage of 4,000 miles in extent, laden with dyestuffs to supply the needs of American weavers. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Half-a-dozen wool-combers, perhaps, are necessary to keep a thousand spinners and weavers at work. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• I see nothing to succeed us but a race of weavers. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• He was studying hard how to get up a machine to meet the weavers' demands for cotton yarns. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• But the same number of spinners or weavers will every year produce the same, or very nearly the same, quantity of linen and woollen cloth. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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