靠時間練出來的本事，和它做出來的東西
這一族就是核心畫面直接展開：先是那雙手做的事（手工藝），再抽出那雙手裡的「會」（專業技藝），最後把畫面拉成動作（親手細細做出來）。
handmade skill · noun · B2
An activity or job where you make things by hand, usually needing skill you build up over time.
手工藝
核心畫面
Picture a pair of hands that have done the same thing ten thousand times — a potter at the wheel, someone weaving, someone shaping wood. The knowing is not in a book; it has soaked into the hands over years. Craft can be thought of as that kind of ability: skill built up slowly by doing, and the work that such skill produces. Everything else the word does grows out of that picture — the trade you practise, the making of a single careful thing, and even the sly kind of skill someone uses on other people.
可以想成一雙做過上萬次同一件事的手：轉著轆轤的陶匠、正在織布的人、把木頭削出形狀的人。那個「會」不在書上，是這些年一…更多收起
可以想成一雙做過上萬次同一件事的手：轉著轆轤的陶匠、正在織布的人、把木頭削出形狀的人。那個「會」不在書上，是這些年一點一點滲進手裡的。craft 可以想成就是這種能耐——靠一直做才慢慢長出來的本事，以及這種本事做出來的東西。這個字其他的用法都是從這個畫面長出去的：你吃飯的那門手藝、把一樣東西細細做出來的動作，甚至是有人把這種「熟練」用到別人身上時的那種滑頭。From the word’s history
Old English cræft, from a Proto-Germanic root meaning 'power, physical strength, might'; already in Old English it had widened through a notion of 'mental power' to 'skill, dexterity; art, science, talent', and then to 'trade, handicraft, employment requiring special skill'. The 'small boat' sense appears only by the 1670s, probably from a phrase like 'vessels of small craft', referring either to the trade such boats did or the seamanship they needed — or possibly keeping the word's original sense of 'power'.
craft 來自古英文 cræft，更早的日耳曼語根意思是「力量、體力」。在古英文時期它就經由「心智上的力量」這一步擴大成「技巧、靈巧、藝術、才能」，再走到「行業、手工、需要特殊本領的工作」。而「小船」這個意思要到 1670 年代才出現，一種說法是來自 vessels of small craft 這類講法：指的可能是這些船做的生意，或是駕馭它們所需要的本事，也可能還保留著這個字最早「力量」的意思。
Etymonline, 'craft' — https://www.etymonline.com/word/craft
Three branches
船和飛行器
這一族乍看跟手藝完全接不上，其實是從「開這種船要有本事／這種船做的是哪一行」這樣的說法縮出來的（見上面的字源）。可以想成：先有 vessels of small craft 這種整句，後來整句被磨掉，只剩 craft 自己扛著「船」的意思。它有個很特別的地方——單複數同形，one craft、three craft 都不加 s。
small boat · noun · B2
A boat, especially a small one.
小船
把熟練用到人身上
還是同一種「很會」，只是施力的對象從材料換成了人。手藝人懂木頭的紋路，這裡的人則是懂別人會怎麼反應——一樣是熟能生巧，只是用在了心思上。
cunning trickery · noun · B2
The skill of tricking or fooling people in a clever way.
詭計
原始詞典資料20 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Craftname
- 1
A surname.
craftnoun/ˈkɹɑːft/
- 1
obsoleteStrength; power; might; force .
- By the craft of nature.
- 2
Intellectual power; skill; art.
- The Cyclôpes were Brontês, Steropês, and Argês,—formidable persons, equally distinguished for strength and for manual craft […]
- England should have had enough against a very ordinary Russia to complete the job but Rooney's removal robbed them of his craft and guidance and now increases the pressure on Thursday's meeting with Wales in Lens.
- 3
Intellectual power; skill; art.
- […]and the chiefe Priests, and the Scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.
- […] you have that Crooked Wisdome, which is called Craft […]
- 4
obsoleteIntellectual power; skill; art.
- 5
obsoleteA work or product of art .
- 6
obsoleteA work or product of art .
- [Canton] has a large export trade in hand-made crafts, ivory and furniture.
- 7
obsoleteA device, a means; a magical device, spell or enchantment .
- For your entente I shall a craft devise […] That ye shall haue your purpose euery dele.
- 8
obsoleteLearning of the schools, scholarship; a branch of learning or knowledge, a science, especially one of the ‘seven liberal arts’ of the medieval universities .
- […] Þe seuen craftes all he can […]
另外 8 個記錄的用法
- 9
Skill, skilfulness, art, especially the skill needed for a particular profession .
- The craft of writing plays.
- A poem […] is the work of the poet; the end and fruit of his labour and study. Poesy is his skill or craft of making; the very fiction itself, the reason or form of the work.
- 10
artscraftshobbiesA branch of skilled work or trade, especially one requiring manual dexterity or artistic skill, but sometimes applied equally to any business, calling or profession; the skilled practice of a practical occupation .
- The carpenter's craft.
- He learned his craft as an apprentice.
- 11
A trade or profession as embodied in its practitioners collectively; the members of a trade or handicraft as a body; an association of these; a trade's union, guild, or ‘company’ .
- She represented the craft of brewers.
- 12
A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space .
- Thanks to British designer Ross Kemp, the world has been graced with a solar-powered watercraft that costs just a third of the price of your average powered water craft.
- 13
nauticaltransportA vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space .
- Quite near could also be seen several ancient wooden warships, and always a variety of craft slipping up and down the tideway.
- 14
nauticaltransportA vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space .
- 15
A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space .
- “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; and she looked it, always trim and trig and smooth of surface like a converted yacht cleared for action.
- 16
fishinghobbieslifestyleImplements used in catching fish, such as net, line, or hook. Modern use primarily in whaling, as in harpoons, hand-lances, etc. .
- And whereas the continual Interruption of the Courſe and Paſſage of the Fiſh up the Rivers, by the daily drawing of Seins and other Fiſh-Craft, tends to prevent their Increaſe,[…]
- The whaling craft consists of harpoons, lances, lines, and sealskin buoys, all of their own workmanship.
craftverb/ˈkɹɑːft/
- 1
To make by hand and with much skill.
- 2
To construct, develop something (like a skilled craftsman).
- state crafting; the process of crafting global policing
- 3
video-gamesTo combine multiple items to form a new item, such as armour or medicine.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。