Builder

(noun.) someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building).

(noun.) a person who creates a business or who organizes and develops a country; 'empire builder'.

(noun.) a substance added to soaps or detergents to increase their cleansing action.

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• Disappearance of a Well Known Builder. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Over this paper place any kind of boards that the fancy of the builder may dictate, as clapboards, shiplap, or drop-siding. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• And in the laying of bricks and stones is the just man a more useful or better partner than the builder? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• We repined that the pyramids had outlasted the embalmed body of their builder. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Mr. Jonas Oldacre is a well known resident of that suburb, where he has carried on his business as a builder for many years. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• John Stevens, the most celebrated boat builder and engineer of his day, was actively experimenting in America in the same line. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• He engaged Charles Brownne, a ship-builder on the East River, to lay down the hull. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• There must be first a husbandman, secondly a builder, thirdly a weaver, to which may be added a cobbler. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Unless the demand is such as to afford the builder his profit, after paying all expenses, he will build no more houses. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• They were practically unknown then, and when he went to an engine builder and said that he wanted a 150 horse-power engine that would run 700 revolutions per minute he was told it was impossible. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The problem of the builder is to get the heavy bowlder out of the ground, to load it on a wagon for transportation, and finally to raise it to the tower. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• General Dodge, besides being a most capable soldier, was an experienced railroad builder. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The safety-lamp had been given to the miner, the caisson to the bridge-builder, the anti-friction metal to the mechanic for bearings. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• But to his honor be it said that he was the first steam-engine builder. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Nothing is more evident, than that those ideas, to which we assent, are more strong, firm and vivid, than the loose reveries of a castle-builder. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• That is why we, the children of frontiersmen, city builders and immigrants, surprise Europe constantly with our worship of constitutions, our social and political timidity. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The reaper was a very vital factor in the development of that country, and McCormick deserved the credit of being one of the greatest profit-builders of the land. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The chewing gum wrapping machine is considered by machinery builders to be one of the most ingenious automatic manufacturing machines in use. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The builders had attained the art of using cement, and of roofing a building,--great improvements on the original Burgh. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• These vessels directed the attention of ship-builders to two prominent features, the shape of the bow and the length of the vessel. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• They were expert builders, and possessed the engineering skill to erect obelisks weighing hundreds of tons. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• They were empire builders. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• They result by a criminal neglect of builders or engineers to provide themselves with such devices, or by a most ignorant or careless management and operation of simple actuating mechanisms. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• They may have been the first agriculturists and the first temple builders. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• What builders they were, these men of antiquity! 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• They were great builders, and left many monuments and inscriptions. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Car-builders were set to work repairing the locomotives and cars. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• As a result all the nations demanded that a non-explosive fuel should be used, and builders turned to the Diesel engine as offering a solution to the difficulty. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The company was able to pay large dividends, and the builders found that they could have made no better investment. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Beginning life as a stone mason, he rose by his own industry to be a master among architects and a prince among builders of iron bridges, aqueducts, canals, tunnels, harbours and docks. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.

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