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    A company that makes steel. Steel is iron with a little carbon added, which makes it far stronger — it is what cars, buildings, ships and bridges are built from, so steelmakers are big, heavy industry, and their names are famous in business news. The word almost always means the company, not a person: 'the world's largest steelmaker' means a firm employing tens of thousands. If you want the person you say a steelworker. This is a newspaper and business word. You will meet it in headlines about prices, factories closing, trade fights between countries. Nobody uses it in conversation — you would not ask a new friend 'is your father a steelmaker?' English does this a lot in business writing: it names a whole company by what it produces. Carmaker, drugmaker, chipmaker, toymaker all work the same way, and once you see the pattern you can read all of them.

    鋼鐵公司、鋼鐵廠(企業)。注意這是指公司,不是指工人;台灣新聞講中鋼這類企業時就是這個字。工人要用 steelworker。

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現, 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

    看看訂閱內容

組成steel + maker. Maker here does not mean a person who makes things by hand; in business English -maker attached to a product names the company that produces it.

同家族的字

  • steelworkershares steel — but this one is the person, not the company
  • carmakersame -maker pattern: the company that makes cars
  • chipmakersame -maker pattern, for computer chips
  • steelworksshares steel — the factory building itself

原始詞典資料2 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。

steelmakernoun

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    A person who works with steel.

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    A company that produces steel.

    • The steelmakers also entered into a national security agreement with the US government, the statement said. […] But US Steel has declined sharply since its heyday. It is no longer even the largest US steelmaker, with only 14,000 US employees — 11,000 of whom are USW members.
    • Nippon Steel has finalized its deal to buy 100% of US Steel, the iconic steelmaker that was once the world’s most valuable company and a cornerstone of American industrial might.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。