核心畫面

A useful way to hold this word: a draft is a version that is not final yet — words or lines set down so that other people can check them and change them. Picture the person bent over that version, choosing where a goes or where a line stops. The word is built as draft plus man: the one who makes the draft. What the draft is made of varies by country and by trade — the words of a law, or the lines of a plan.

這個字可以想成一個「還沒定案的版本」,以及趴在那份版本上工作的人。draft 指初稿:字或線先放上去,讓別人看、讓別更多收起這個字可以想成一個「還沒定案的版本」,以及趴在那份版本上工作的人。draft 指初稿:字或線先放上去,讓別人看、讓別人改。畫面裡的人正在決定逗號放哪裡、線要停在哪裡。整個字的組成就是 draft 加 man,做初稿的那個人。至於那份初稿是文字還是圖面,要看行業,也要看你讀的是哪一國的英文。

From the word’s history

Wiktionary analyses draftsman as draft + -s- + -man, that is, the man of the draft. The packet also records draftsman as the US spelling of draughtsman, an older spelling of the same word.

Wiktionary 把 draftsman 分析成 draft + -s- + -man,也就是「做草稿的人」。同一份資料也記錄 draftsman 是 draughtsman 的美式拼法,兩者是同一個字的兩種寫法。

Wiktionary entry for draftsman, supplied in packet evidence (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1145153755:5064): From draft + -s- + -man; sense 0 tagged US standard spelling of draughtsman.

One branch

做初稿的人,以及它的兩種拼法

一條講這個人做什麼,一條講這個字怎麼寫;兩條講的都是同一個 draft+man。

noun · C1

Someone whose job is to put a suggested law, a new law, or another legal document into exactly the right words.

法案起草人