draftsman

/ˈdrɑːftsmən/ (bre, ipa) · /ˈdræftsmən/ (ame, ipa) · /ˈdraf(t)-smən ˈdräf(t)-/ (ame, mw)

draftsman — 名詞

  • draftsmansingular
  • draughtsmenplural

1. someone whose job is making detailed scale drawings of buildings, machines, or o

1.名詞B2
釋義

製圖員

繪製建築或機械精密圖樣的人

someone whose job is making detailed scale drawings of buildings, machines, or other engineered objects, so that builders or manufacturers can work from those plans.

例句

Apinya hired a draftsman to turn her rough sketches into proper construction drawings.

Apinya 聘了一位製圖員，把她的草圖畫成正式的施工圖。

hire + a draftsman (typical employer collocation)

The factory employed two draftsmen who prepared blueprints for every new machine part.

那間工廠雇用兩名製圖員，為每一個新的機器零件繪製藍圖。

passive context: employed as draftsmen

同義詞
  • drafter

    modern gender-neutral term used by many US engineering firms

  • draughtsman

    British spelling of the same role

  • CAD technician

    current job-ad label when the drawings are done in software like AutoCAD

文法句型

a draftsman + verb

用法筆記

Subject is usually a building, a machine part, or an engineering project — not free-form art. In American English this sense covers both architecture and engineering offices; British English prefers the spelling 'draughtsman'.

常見錯誤

❌The draftsman painted a portrait of the mayor.
✅The artist painted a portrait of the mayor.
💡a draftsman draws technical plans, not freehand artworks of people.
❌She is a draftman by trade.
✅She is a draftsman by trade.
💡the word always carries the inner 's': draft-s-man.

2. the person who composes the actual wording of a contract, statute, will, or simi

2.名詞C1
釋義

起草人

撰寫合約、法案等法律文件條文的人

the person who composes the actual wording of a contract, statute, will, or similar legal document, choosing the phrasing carefully so the text says exactly what the parties or legislature intended.

例句

Sven, the senior draftsman of the new tax bill, spent six months refining its wording.

新稅法的資深起草人 Sven 花了六個月推敲條文用字。

the draftsman of + [legal document]

Courts often ask what the draftsman of a contract meant by an ambiguous phrase.

法院常常會去探究合約起草人對某一模糊條文究竟是什麼意思。

formal register: courts ask what the draftsman meant

同義詞

文法句型

the draftsman of + document

用法筆記

Almost always followed by 'of + [contract / will / statute / treaty / bill]'. Distinguish from sense 1 by domain: this sense never refers to drawings, only to legal text. Frequently appears in court judgments and law-firm reports.

常見錯誤

❌The draftsman explained the contract to the client.' (when meaning the lawyer who advised)
✅The lawyer explained the contract to the client.
💡a draftsman writes the document; a lawyer advises and represents.

3. an artist who is unusually good at drawing — especially at capturing accurate sh

3.名詞C1
釋義

素描名家

以線條捕捉形體見長的藝術家

an artist who is unusually good at drawing — especially at capturing accurate shapes, proportions, and lines by hand, often as the foundation for paintings or prints.

例句

Critics praised Layla as a fine draftsman whose pencil studies rivalled her finished oil paintings.

評論家盛讚 Layla 是位素描高手，她的鉛筆習作不輸給她完成的油畫。

a fine draftsman (set evaluative collocation)

Da Vinci is remembered as one of the greatest draftsmen in European art history.

達文西被譽為歐洲藝術史上最偉大的素描高手之一。

one of the greatest draftsmen + in [art tradition]

同義詞
  • draftsperson

    gender-neutral variant; rarer in art-history prose

  • drawer

    everyday word but ambiguous (also means storage compartment), so art critics avoid it

文法句型

a fine / great + draftsman

用法筆記

Used in art criticism and history writing, not in everyday speech. Frequently graded by adjectives ('fine', 'great', 'gifted', 'masterly') and almost always refers to drawings (pencil, charcoal, ink) rather than paintings or sculpture.