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be a schoolmaster
schoolmaster 尤指中小学男教师或男校长，也可泛指教育者。
His father was a schoolmaster in a small village.
他父亲是一个小村庄的男教师。
男教师；男校长；教导者
schoolmasters — plural of schoolmaster
先理解核心含义，再看它在真实句子里的用法。
男教师；男校长；教导者
a person or institution that acts as an educator
His father was a schoolmaster in a small village.
他父亲是一个小村庄的男教师。
男教师。
A male teacher.
任何起教导作用的事物。
Anything that teaches.
The old schoolmaster taught Latin and Greek to generations of village boys.
那位老教师教了一代又一代村里的男孩拉丁语和希腊语。
In the nineteenth century, many schoolmasters also served as church organists.
在十九世纪，许多男教师还兼任教堂管风琴手。
The strict schoolmaster asked the students to hand in their essays by Friday.
那位严厉的男教师要求学生星期五之前把文章交上来。
schoolmaster 尤指中小学男教师或男校长，也可泛指教育者。
His father was a schoolmaster in a small village.
他父亲是一个小村庄的男教师。
用 of 短语说明所属学校或地方；也可说 schoolmaster at，后接具体学校。
The schoolmaster of the village school was well respected.
这所乡村学校的男校长很受尊敬。
work as 后接表示职业的名词，强调职业身份。
After graduating, he worked as a schoolmaster for twenty years.
毕业后，他当了二十年的男教师。
Not this
She is a schoolmaster.
Use this
She is a teacher.
schoolmaster 专指男教师或男校长，不能用于女性；要表达“她是老师”时，应改用性别中性的 teacher。
Not this
He is schoolmaster.
Use this
He is a schoolmaster.
schoolmaster 是可数名词，单数形式前必须加 a/an。中文没有冠词，学习者容易遗漏，因此要加上 a。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
乡村男教师
The village schoolmaster taught all the children in the small community.
这位乡村男教师教导小社区里所有的孩子。
严厉的男教师
He was a strict schoolmaster who demanded obedience from his pupils.
他是一位严厉的男教师，要求学生们服从。
摆出教师架子；好为人师
Don't play the schoolmaster with me; I know what I'm doing.
别对我摆出教师架子，我知道自己在做什么。
教师已走向四方。
Lord Brougham’s famous line "The schoolmaster is abroad" reminded people that education was spreading.
布鲁厄姆勋爵的名言“教师已走向四方”提醒人们教育正在传播。
Use schoolmasters naturally, then get feedback on meaning, tone, grammar, and phrasing.
Revisit a common error or keep this word in your review list.
学校(school)里的掌管者(master)就是男教师、男校长。
语域：formal 常见场景：formal writing、historical narrative、education schoolmaster 意为“男教师”或“男校长”，也可泛指“教导者”。该词比较正式，常带旧式或文学色彩，通常用于书面语、历史叙述或较正式的场合；在日常英语中一般用 teacher 或 head teacher。选择时需注意语境与语体。
Master and headmaster share the stressed /mɑːstə/ ending and rhyme. Schoolmaster, postmaster, paymaster, and housemaster end in the same letters, but the main stress is on the first element, so they do not rhyme fully. Schoolmistress is a lookalike: it starts with school- but ends with /mɪstrɪs/.
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.