author 词态变化
复数: authors;第三人称单数: authors;过去式: authored;过去分词: authored;现在分词: authoring;
author 中文词源
author 作者来自法语autor, 父亲。词源同auct, 创造，增加。字母c脱落，又受希腊语影响添加字母h.
author 英文词源
- author
- author: [14] Latin auctor originally meant ‘creator, originator’; it came from auct-, the past participial stem of augēre, which as well as ‘increase’ (as in English augment) meant ‘originate’. But it also developed the specific sense ‘creator of a text, writer’, and brought both these meanings with it into English via Old French autor. Forms with -th- began to appear in the mid 16th century (from French), and originally the-th- was just a spelling variant of -t-, but eventually it affected the pronunciation.
While the ‘writing’ sense has largely taken over author, authority [13] (ultimately from Latin auctōritās) and its derivatives authoritative and authorize have developed along the lines of the creator’s power to command or make decisions.
=> auction, augment - author (n.)
- c. 1300, autor "father," from Old French auctor, acteor "author, originator, creator, instigator (12c., Modern French auteur), from Latin auctorem (nominative auctor) "enlarger, founder, master, leader," literally "one who causes to grow," agent noun from auctus, past participle of augere "to increase" (see augment). Meaning "one who sets forth written statements" is from late 14c. The -t- changed to -th- 16c. on mistaken assumption of Greek origin.
...[W]riting means revealing onesself to excess .... This is why one can never be alone enough when one writes, why even night is not night enough. ... I have often thought that the best mode of life for me would be to sit in the innermost room of a spacious locked cellar with my writing things and a lamp. Food would be brought and always put down far away from my room, outside the cellar's outermost door. The walk to my food, in my dressing gown, through the vaulted cellars, would be my only exercise. I would then return to my table, eat slowly and with deliberation, then start writing again at once. And how I would write! From what depths I would drag it up! [Franz Kafka]
- author (v.)
- 1590s, from author (n.). Revived 1940s, chiefly U.S. Related: Authored; authoring.
author 英文释义
- 1. writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
- 2. someone who originates or causes or initiates something;
- "he was the generator of several complaints"
author 同义词解析
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。
author 双语例句
- 1. James Fox is best known as the author of White Mischief.
- 詹姆斯·福克斯以《欲望城》一书最为出名.
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. She's indexed the book by author, by age, and by illustrator.
- 她根据作者、年龄和插图画家分别为该书编了索引。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. The author distanced himself from some of the comments in his book.
- 作者使自己书中的某些评论不带个人色彩。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. The sheer quantity of detail would bemuse even the most clear-headed author.
- 光是这么多的细节就会让哪怕是头脑最清醒的作者感到困惑。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. The author's style suggests a certain ambiguity in his moral view.
- 该作家的风格表明其道德观有点暧昧不明。
来自柯林斯例句
author 实用场景例句
- Who is your favourite author?
- 你最喜欢哪位作家？
牛津词典
- He is the author of three books on art.
- 他写了三本艺术专著。
牛津词典
- best-selling author Joan Collins
- 畅销书作家琼∙柯林斯
牛津词典
- Who's the author?
- 作者是谁？
牛津词典
- As the author of the proposal I cannot agree with you.
- 我作为提案的发起人不能同意你的意见。
牛津词典
- ...Jill Phillips, author of the book 'Give Your Child Music'.
- 吉尔·菲利普斯，《给孩子音乐》一书的作者
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Haruki Murakami is Japan's best-selling author.
- 村上春树是日本当红的畅销书作家。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- The authors of the plan believe they can reach this point within about two years.
- 该计划的提出者相信他们约在两年内可以达成该目标。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Then he opened a restaurant, authored a book, and landed his own radio show.
- 后来他开了个餐馆，写了本书，还制作了自己的广播剧。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- ...a proposal authored by subcommittee chairman Quentin Burdick.
- 专门小组委员会主席昆廷·伯迪克提出的建议
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- The train, buffeted by blasts of air, was passing through a tunnel.
- 列车正在颠簸的气浪里驶过一个隧道.
期刊摘选
- After the play they called for the author to show himself.
- 剧终之后他们请求编剧和大家见面.
《简明英汉词典》
- The author does not give references.
- 作者没有注明参考文献的出处.
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- The series was based on the autobiographies of the author.
- 这部连续剧是根据那位作家的自传拍摄的.
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- The author skillfully fuses these fragments into a cohesive whole.
- 作者将这些片断巧妙地结合成一个连贯的整体.
《简明英汉词典》
- We should group together all the books by the same author.
- 我们应把同一作者的著作全部归在一起.
《简明英汉词典》
- The manuscript might be usable if the author could fill it out a little.
- 如果作者稍加充实,原稿就可用.
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- I asked the author to autograph my book.
- 我请作者在书上亲笔签名.
《简明英汉词典》
- As the author of the scheme I can't really comment.
- 我作为这一计划的创始人是不便置评的.
《简明英汉词典》
- Either an author or a man interested in literature is named a literary man.
- 一个作者或一个对文学感兴趣的人被称作文人.
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- The author wove three plots into one story.
- 作者把三个情节编成一个故事.
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- The author lifted the paragraph from someone else's work.
- 这一段是作者从别人的作品中抄来的.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- The author portrayed his father as a vicious drunkard.
- 作者把他父亲描绘成一个可恶的酒鬼.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- The cards are arranged by author and subject.
- 书卡按作者和科目排列.
《简明英汉词典》
- This author runs to sentiment.
- 这位作家流于伤感.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- The author projects his own thoughts and feelings into the personality of the hero of his play.
- 作者把自己的思想感情寄托在剧中主人翁身上.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- The author died before his book had seen the light.
- 作者在他的著作出版之前就逝世了.
《简明英汉词典》
- The author discovered that the translator had foisted several passages into his book.
- 作者发现译者偷偷在他的原著中插入了几段.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
