Tailor

(noun.) a person whose occupation is making and altering garments.

(verb.) adjust to a specific need or market; 'a magazine oriented towards young people'; 'tailor your needs to your surroundings'.

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• He had been a tailor in his time, and had kept a phaeton, he said. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• 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.
• The tailor does not attempt to make his own shoes, but buys them of the shoemaker. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• This part, however, is very small in some, and very great in others, A master tailor requires no other instruments of trade but a parcel of needles. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• I even distinguished that one of them was marked with the name of 'Hyams,' who was Oldacres tailor. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• We'll make the coats of some of these soldiers redder than ever the tailor did. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• He's a tailor by trade. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The tailors of Boston to whom he showed it were willing to admit its efficiency, but told him that he could never secure its general use, as such a proceeding would ruin their business. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The university of smiths, the university of tailors, etc. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Three hundred tailors were employed in the same manner to make me clothes; but they had another contrivance for taking my measure. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Edison says: I get a suit that fits me; then I compel the tailors to use that as a jig or pattern or blue-print to make others by. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The Singer machine met the demands of the tailoring and leather industries for a heavier and more powerful machine. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.

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