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work as a typist
“work as”后接职业名词，表示担任某职；typist 在此为可数名词，常用不定冠词。
She worked as a typist in a law firm.
她在一家律师事务所做打字员。
打字员
先理解核心含义，再看它在真实句子里的用法。
打字员
a person paid to operate a typewriter
She worked as a typist in a law firm.
她在一家律师事务所做打字员。
打字的人,用打字机书写信件等的文书工作者
A person who types, a clerical worker who writes letters, etc., using a typewriter.
受雇操作打字机的人
someone paid to operate a typewriter
The office hired a new typist to prepare the letters.
办公室雇了一名新打字员来准备信件。
My grandmother worked as a typist in the 1950s.
我祖母在20世纪50年代当过打字员。
The typist finished the report before lunch.
打字员在午饭前完成了报告。
“work as”后接职业名词，表示担任某职；typist 在此为可数名词，常用不定冠词。
She worked as a typist in a law firm.
她在一家律师事务所做打字员。
用 for 说明雇主或服务对象，表示“为……工作的打字员”。
He is a typist for a local newspaper.
他在一家当地报社当打字员。
who 引导的定语从句说明打字员的能力或职责，注意可数名词前要加冠词。
They need a typist who knows shorthand.
他们需要一位会速记的打字员。
Not this
My sister is a typewriter.
Use this
My sister is a typist.
typewriter 指‘打字机’，是物品；typist 指‘打字员’，是人。二者不可混用。
Not this
She typist the report.
Use this
She typed the report.
typist 是名词，不能用作动词；表达‘打字’应用动词 type，其过去式为 typed。
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盲打打字员
She is a touch typist and never looks at the keyboard.
她是个盲打打字员，从不用看键盘。
速记打字员
He works as a shorthand typist in the company.
他在公司做速记打字员。
音频打字员
The audio typist transcribed the recorded interview.
音频打字员把录制的访谈转写成了文字。
文稿打字员
The copy typist typed the draft without changing a word.
文稿打字员一个字都没改就打完了草稿。
打字组
She was moved to the typist pool after the merger.
合并后她被调到了打字组。
打字员在下午茶时间回到家，收拾早餐，点燃炉子，摆出罐装食物。
In T. S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land, the typist is a symbol of the emptiness of modern life.
在T.S.艾略特的诗歌《荒原》中，打字员象征着现代生活的空虚。
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typist = type（打字）+ -ist（表示人），记住“用打字机工作的人”就是打字员。
语域：neutral 常见场景：job advertisements、office administration、historical accounts 该词为中性正式用语，通常用于正式的职业描述或历史语境中，日常生活中较少提到。
这些以 -ist 结尾的常用词都与 typist 拼写相似，但重读元音不同，均不与 typist /ˈtaɪpɪst/ 押韵；英语中几乎没有与 typist 押韵的常用词。
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