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work as a compositor
表达职业时，常用 work as + 职业名词，表示“担任某职业”。
He worked as a compositor for many years.
他做了多年排字工人。
排字工人；排版工人
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排字工人；排版工人
one who sets written material into type
He worked as a compositor for many years.
他做了多年排字工人。
排字工人。
A person who sets type; a typesetter.
编排者；整理者。
One who, or that which, composes or sets in order.
将图像在缓冲区中合成以生成最终显示图像的系统。
A system that puts images together in a buffer (such as individual windows on a desktop) to generate a final display image.
The compositor carefully arranged the metal letters for the newspaper page.
排字工人小心地为报纸版面排列金属字母。
After finishing the book, the author thanked the compositor for the clean typesetting.
书完成后，作者感谢排字工人清晰的排版。
The old printing house employed two compositors who worked by hand.
那家老印刷厂雇了两名手工排字工人。
表达职业时，常用 work as + 职业名词，表示“担任某职业”。
He worked as a compositor for many years.
他做了多年排字工人。
employ + 人 表示“雇用某人”。注意复数用 compositors。
The printing shop employed three compositors.
那家印刷店雇了三名排字工人。
Not this
The compositor wrote a beautiful symphony.
Use this
The composer wrote a beautiful symphony.
compositor 指排字工人，composer 才指作曲家；两者拼写相近但词义不同。本句想表达“作曲家”，因此要用 composer。
Not this
He works as compositor.
Use this
He works as a compositor.
compositor 是可数名词单数，在 work as 后作介词宾语时仍需要不定冠词 a。汉语没有冠词系统，学习者容易漏掉 a；加上 a 才符合英语语法。
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手工排字工人
By the 1880s, the demand for hand compositors began to decline.
到19世纪80年代，对手工排字工人的需求开始下降。
机器排字工人
Machine compositors could set type many times faster than hand compositors.
机器排字工人排字的速度比手工排字工人快很多倍。
排字学徒
He spent four years as an apprentice compositor before becoming a journeyman.
他当了四年排字学徒，然后成为正式技工。
当排字工人；从事排字工作
For thirty years he worked as a compositor at the same printing firm.
他在同一家印刷公司当了三十年排字工人。
排字工人和印刷工人
The strike brought together both compositors and pressmen.
这场罢工把排字工人和印刷工人联合在一起。
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联想：compositor 像 compose（组成）+ -or（人），排字工人把文字组成版面。
语域：formal 常见场景：印刷行业、印刷史或专业文献 compositor 通常用于正式或技术性语境，多出现在印刷行业或历史文献中，日常口语比较少见。
compositors
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