writer

英 ['raɪtə] 美['raɪtɚ]
  • n. 作家;作者

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词态变化


复数: writers;

英英释意


1. writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
2. a person who is able to write and has written something

英文词源


writer (n.)
Old English writere "one who can write, clerk; one who produces books or literary compositions," agent noun from writan (see write (v.)). Meaning "sign-painter" is from 1837. Writer's cramp attested by 1843; writer's block by 1950.

同义词辨析


author, writer

这两个名词均有"作者,作家"之意。

author:泛指用自己名字或笔名发表过作品的人,不强调是否以写作为主职业。

writer:含义广泛,一般指以写作为职业的人。

考试真题


While excessive optimism can promote bad investment patterns, resulting in a real-estate bubble, the report's writers downplay that potential outcome in that it has not yet occurred.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

The report's writers state that America's failure to invest in infrastructure impacts not only the health of the real-estate market, but also our ability to remain globally competitive.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Writers may experience periods of time in their life when they just can't produce anything.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Writers can't bluff ( ' , 虚张声势 ) their way through ignorance.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Obviously, I did what any professional writer would do; I hurried off to spread the good news.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

I have heard people say that a writer should never take criticism personally.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Genuine criticism, the type that leaves a lasting mark on you as a writer, also leaves an existential imprint ( ' , 印记 ) on you as a person.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

For me it took the form of my first, and I hope only, encounter with writer's block—I was not able to produce anything for three years.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

A writer should polish his writing repeatedly so as to get closer to perfection.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Benjamin Franklin, a famous American diplomat, writer and scientist, died in 1790, but his proverb "Time is money" is taken more seriously by Americans of today than ever before.

出自-2011年12月听力原文

Genuine criticism, the type that leaves a lasting mark on you as a writer, also leaves an existential imprint on you as a person.

2015年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

I have heard people say that a writer should never take criticism personally .

2015年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

My name is Brendan Leonard, and I'm an author, magazine writer, filmmaker and public speaker.

2019年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

Obviously, I did what any professional writer would do; I hurried off to spread the good news.

2015年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

You might have thought any tool which enables a writer to get words on to the page would be an advantage

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

We tend to equate(等同于)happiness with freedom, but, as the psychotherapist and writer Adam Phillips has observed, without obstacles to our desires it's harder to know what we want, or where we're heading

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

ingenuity is essential for science fiction writers

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

About a year ago, I flew to Singapore to join the writer Malcolm Gladwell, the fashion designer Marc Ecko and the graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister in addressing a group of advertising people on "Marketing to the Child of Tomorrow".

出自-2012年12月阅读原文

Writer friends of mine pay good money to get the Freedom software that enables them to disable the very Internet connections that seemed so emancipating not long ago

出自-2012年12月阅读原文

No one knows the precise use Google will make of the intellectual property it has gained by scanning the world's library books, and the truth, as Gleick, an American science writer and member of the Authors Guild, points out, is that the company probably doesn't even know itself.

出自-2011年12月阅读原文

Malena Amusa, a 24-year-old writer and dancer from St.

出自-2010年6月阅读原文

The writers of Generation O (short for Obama), a new Newsweek blog that seeks to chronicle the lives of a group of young Obama supporters, want to answer that question.

出自-2010年6月阅读原文

What is a main concern of the writers of Generation O

出自-2010年6月阅读原文

Unfortunately, most of the early popular African-American writers have been all but forgotten in modern times until now.

出自-2013年12月听力原文

Benjamin Franklin, a famous American diplomat, writer and scientist, died in 1790, but his proverb "Time is money" is taken more seriously by Americans of today than ever before.

出自-2011年12月听力原文

Someone once said that there's a bit of ice at the heart of every writer.

出自-2010年12月听力原文

The writer can stand aside from experience and look at it, watch it happening

出自-2010年12月听力原文

But very often, a writer can appear to stand aside, and this detachment makes people feel there's a bit of ice in the heart.

出自-2010年12月听力原文

What does the man say about writers?

出自-2010年12月听力原文

But their results also indicated films and TV shows with women or people of color in the important jobs behind the scenes—director, producer or writer—tended to have better diversity numbers.

2017年12月六级真题(第二套)听力  Section B 

Hale wasn't just a writer, she was also a fierce social advocate, and she was particularly obsessed with an ideal New England, which she associated with abundant Thanksgiving meals that she claimed had a deep moral influence.

2018年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A

After her mother read the poem to her, the writer felt sad at first.

2016年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读A 题设

Any given performance takes a tour bus full of artists, technical experts, managers, musicians, or writers to create an appealing piece of art.

2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 填空题 原文

As writer Caroline Alexander makes clear in her forceful and well-researched story the endurance, adventuring was even then a thoroughly commercial effort.

2016年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Caroline Hugo, famous writer and influential movie critic.

2015年高考英语广东卷 阅读理解 信息匹配 题设

David Brooks, author of the Social Animal: the Hidden Sources of Love,Character, and Achievement, appears to be the latest in a long line of writers who have failed to resist the temptation.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读E 原文

During the journey, Raynor began a career as a nature writer.

2018年高考英语江苏卷 完形填空 原文

During the last few years, business executives and book writers looking for a new way to advise corporate America have been exploiting Shakespeare's wisdom for profitable ends.

2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

How does the writer recommend chronologica to readers?

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读A 题设

In 1870, when Dickens died, the world mourned him as its first professional writer and publisher, famous and beloved.

2018年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

In recent years, many writers have begun to speak the 'decline of class' and 'classless society' in Britain.

2015年高考英语广东卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

It can be concluded from the passage that "patty poem" leads the writer to discover the power of poetry.

2016年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读A 题设

It turned out that among other things, he was an eighty-year-old writer.

2015年高考英语江苏卷 完形填空 原文

Jo usmar is a writer for cosmopolitan and co-author of the this book will series of lifestyle books.

2019年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

No one will ever know what mix of talent, ambition, energy and luck made Dickens such a distinguished writer.

2018年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

The author has become a successful writer.

2015年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 选项

The author mentions the functions of science at the beginning of the passage to explain why many writers use science in their works.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读E 题设

The dog tried to please the writer.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读D 选项

The writer advises users of social media to read the terms and conditions even if there is a kitemark.

2016年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读C 题设

The writer began to walk the dog.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读D 选项

The writer believes that technology explains greater parental involvement with their children.

2015年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 题设

The writer mentions birds and frogs to show how light pollution affects animals.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读C 题设

The writer was a slow learner.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读D 选项

“So few authors have brains enough or literary gift enough to keep their own end up in journalism,” Newman wrote,“that I am tempted to define‘journalism’ as‘a term of contempt applied by writers who are not read to writers who are'.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

Neville Cardus, who wrote for the Manchester Guardian from 1917 until shortly before his death in 1975,is now known solely as a writer of essays on the game of cricket.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

The potential evolution of today's technology, and its social consequences, is dazzlingly complicated, and it's perhaps best left to science fiction writers and futurologists to explore the many possibilities we can envisage.

出自-2013年考研阅读原文

You infer information you feel the writer has invited you to grasp by presenting you with specific evidence and clues.

出自-2015年考研阅读原文

Neville Cardus, who wrote for the Manchester Guardian from 1917 until shortly before his death in 1975, is now known solely as a writer of essays on the game of cricket.

2010年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Third, the use of paper checks gives consumers several days of "float" — it takes several days before a check is cashed and funds are withdrawn from the issuer's account, which means that the writer of the check can earn interest on the funds in the meant

2013年考研真题(英语二)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

You infer information you feel the writer has invited you to grasp by presenting you with specific evidence and clues.

2015年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

词组搭配


writer's block

the condition of being unable to think of what to write or how to proceed with writing

(使作家不能进行写作的)作者心理阻滞

writer's cramp

pain or stiffness in the hand caused by excessive writing

(书写过多造成的)书写痉挛

实用场景例句


writers of poetry
诗人

牛津词典

a travel/cookery, etc. writer
游记作家、写菜谱的人等

牛津词典

the writer of this letter
写这封信的人

牛津词典

a messy writer
书写潦草的人

牛津词典

Turner is a writer and critic.
特纳是作家兼批评家。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...detective stories by American writers.
美国作家创作的侦探小说

柯林斯高阶英语词典

No-one is to see the document without the permission of the writer of the report...
此报告未经作者允许,任何人不得翻阅。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

I can't agree with the letter writer who claims bringing back the death penalty would be an abuse of human rights.
我不能赞同写信人所称恢复死刑就是侵犯人权的说法。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

What do you like to do in your spare time?
空闲时你喜欢干什么?

辞典例句

He counted himself a great writer.
他自认为是一个伟大的作家.

《简明英汉词典》

He is not so much a journalist as a writer.
与其说他是个新闻工作者,不如说他是个作家.

《简明英汉词典》

If a writer does not go deep among the masses, he cannot expect to turn out good works.
当作家而不深入群众, 就不会写出好作品来.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

The writer expanded his short novel into a long one.
那位作者把他的短篇小说扩展为长篇.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

He claims that the writer never consciously formulated his own theoretical position.
他声称该作家从未有意识地阐明他自己的理论见解.

《简明英汉词典》

Double rhythms, resounding through the lyric depiction and connecting with each other , indicate the thespian place of mankind and the cognition of the writer to this thespian place.
这双重旋律互为表里, 表明了人类的某种悲剧性处境以及作家对这种悲剧性处境的感受和认识.

《简明英汉词典》

The profound erudition of the writer came from long years of study.
这位作家渊博的学问来自长年累月的钻研.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

He is a very popular writer but I don't like his style.
他是个很受欢迎的作家,但我不喜欢他的文风.

《简明英汉词典》

The writer, an expatriate living in Singapore, has studied and worked in the US.
作者曾在美国读书和工作, 目前旅居新加坡.

《简明英汉词典》

The writer finely images the hero.
作者非常细致地描述书中的英雄.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

The writer expurgated some parts from his novel when he read the third times.
作家第三次审稿时又删去了几部分.

《简明英汉词典》

At this point the writer puts in [ inserts ] a flashback.
作者在这里安插了一段倒叙.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

He was a writer living in straitened circumstances.
他是一个生活拮据的作家.

《简明英汉词典》

I want to make it as a writer.
我想在写作上获得成功.

《简明英汉词典》

He was a good writer, but he sold out and now just writes for money.
他曾是个好作家, 但后来背弃了原则,现在只是为钱而写作了.

《简明英汉词典》

The writer showed great rhetorical skill.
该作者显示出非常出色的修辞技巧.

《简明英汉词典》

He used to be a linguist till he turns writer.
他过去是个语言学家,后来成了作家.

《简明英汉词典》

In this sentence the writer uses an illegal construction.
在本句中,作者使用了一个不合语法的结构.

《简明英汉词典》