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become a shipbuilder
作可数名词，指造船的人或企业。
After finishing his apprenticeship, he became a shipbuilder.
学徒期满后，他成为了一名造船者。
造船者
shipbuilders — plural of shipbuilder
先理解核心含义，再看它在真实句子里的用法。
造船者
a person who builds ships as a business
After finishing his apprenticeship, he became a shipbuilder.
学徒期满后，他成为了一名造船者。
建造船舶(如船和艇)的人
A person who builds vessels such as ships and boats.
专门建造船舶的公司
A firm that specializes in building ships.
The shipbuilder inspected the hull carefully before the launch.
造船者在船下水之前仔细检查了船体。
After years of training, she became a skilled shipbuilder at the coastal shipyard.
经过多年训练，她在沿海造船厂成为了一名熟练的造船者。
The city hired a famous shipbuilder to construct a new ferry.
市政府聘请了一位著名的造船者来建造新渡轮。
作可数名词，指造船的人或企业。
After finishing his apprenticeship, he became a shipbuilder.
学徒期满后，他成为了一名造船者。
work as 后接职业名词。
Her father worked as a shipbuilder in the shipyard.
她父亲在船厂当造船工人。
此时 shipbuilder 指造船企业。
The company is a shipbuilder based in Osaka.
该公司是一家总部位于大阪的造船公司。
复数形式 shipbuilders 作主语时，谓语动词用复数。
Shipbuilders build and repair ships in the port's dry docks.
造船者在港口的干船坞里建造和修理船只。
Not this
The shipbuilder industry is important to this city.
Use this
The shipbuilding industry is important to this city.
shipbuilder 指造船的人或公司，不指造船业；表示‘造船业’要用 shipbuilding（动名词/名词），所以应把 shipbuilder industry 改为 shipbuilding industry。
Not this
The port has three large shipbuilder.
Use this
The port has three large shipbuilders.
shipbuilder 是可数名词，复数形式是 shipbuilders；three 后须用复数，因此要加 -s。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
著名的造船商
The city is known as the home of a renowned shipbuilder.
这座城市以一位著名造船商所在地而闻名。
造船大师
The museum honors the master shipbuilder who designed the clipper.
博物馆表彰设计了快速帆船的那位造船大师。
当地造船厂
The fishing boats were repaired by a local shipbuilder.
这些渔船由当地一家造船厂修理。
造船厂
Old ships are dismantled in the shipbuilder's yard.
旧船在造船厂被拆解。
造船公司
A firm of shipbuilders won the contract.
一家造船公司赢得了合同。
Use shipbuilders naturally, then get feedback on meaning, tone, grammar, and phrasing.
Revisit a common error or keep this word in your review list.
记忆技巧：ship（船）+ builder（建造者），想象船坞里一位工匠在敲打船身，shipbuilder就是造船专家。
语域：neutral 常见场景：船舶制造行业、商业与贸易报道、工程与历史文献 该词为中性标准用词，通常用于造船行业、商业报道或工程技术语境，既可指造船企业，也可指造船专业人士；多出现在书面语中，日常口语里较少直接使用。
None of these words rhymes with shipbuilder as a whole. Ship, shipyard, and shipwright genuinely share the stressed initial /ʃɪp/. Builder and building share the spelled root 'build' and a similar /bɪl(d)/ start, but in shipbuilder the -bilder part is unstressed (/bildə/) and does not exactly match builder. Warship only looks similar: its stress falls on 'war' (/ˈwɔːrʃɪp/), so the stressed vowel /ɔːr/ differs from /ɪ/.
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.