核心畫面
Picture whatever puts ink onto paper. English adds -er to mean 'the one that does this', and it does not care whether that one is a machine on your desk or a person in a workshop — both are printers.
可以想成：把墨印到紙上的那一個。英文的 -er 表示「做這件事的那一個」，而且不管那個「一個」是桌上的機器還是工廠裡…更多收起
可以想成：把墨印到紙上的那一個。英文的 -er 表示「做這件事的那一個」，而且不管那個「一個」是桌上的機器還是工廠裡的人——兩者都叫 printer。（同樣的規則也出現在 cooker、driver 這類字上，所以看到 -er 別自動假設一定是人。）原始詞典資料3 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。
printernoun/ˈpɹɪntə(ɹ)/
- 1
One who makes prints.
- Old Japanese colour-prints are printed on a sheet of mulberry-bark paper, and are the product of three different craftsmen: the artist who drew the original design, the block-maker or engraver who transferred the design to the wood, and the printer.
- 2
mediaprintingpublishingThe operator of a printing press or the owner of a printing business; (metonymic) any printing business.
- IMPRINTED at London in Fleteſtrete by Thomas Berthelet, printer to the kynges highnes, the ſeconde of July, the yere of our lorde. M. DXLV. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum ſolum.
- The Court doth Declare, as formerly ſo now, That no Apprentices be taken into any Printing-houſe, otherwiſe than according to this Proportion following, (viz.) ever Maſter Printer that is, or hath been Maſter or Upper Warden of his Company, may have three Apprentices at one time and no more, and every Maſter-Printer that is of the Livery of his Company, may have two Apprentices at one time and no more, […]
- 3
computer-hardwarecomputingengineeringA device, usually attached to a computer, used to print text or images onto paper; an analogous device capable of producing three-dimensional objects.
- The use of the Hughes type printer is extending on the main circuits, where speed of transmission is a great object; but it is highly improbable that it will ever be adopted, except on main circuits.
- By the use of these keys in conjunction with the other keys, the operator has perfect control over the receiving printer at the distant station.
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。