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单词 author
释义
author
noun[C]
uk
/ˈɔː.θər/us
/ˈɑː.θɚ/
B1
thewriterof abook,article,play, etc.:
作者，作家；著者
He is the authoroftwobooksonFrenchhistory.他是两部法国历史著作的作者。
formal
apersonwhobeginsorcreatessomething:
发起者，创始人
She's the authorofthe company'srecentsuccess/ofallourtroubles.是她给公司带来了最近的成功／我们所有的麻烦都是她造成的。
More examples
  • The author hastriedtodealwith a verydifficultsubject.
  • In hispreface, the author says that he took eightyearsto write thebook.
  • She's abest-sellingauthor .
  • He's the author of severalhugelysuccessfulchildren'sbooks.
  • There was abiographicalnoteabout the author on the back of thebook.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
People who write for work or pleasure
  • autobiographer
  • blogger
  • Braillist
  • chronicler
  • co-author
  • columnist
  • correspondent
  • dramatist
  • humorist
  • satirist
  • scribe
  • scriptwriter
  • Shakespeare
  • songwriter
  • speechwriter
  • stenographer
  • stylist
  • tweep
  • tweeter
  • twitterati
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Causing things to happen
author
verb[T]
uk
/ˈɔː.θər/us
/ˈɑː.θɚ/
formal
to write abook,article, etc.:
撰写，写作；编写
He has authored more than 30books.他已经写了30多本书。
mainlyUS
tocreatesomething:
发起，始创；创造
Thedealis being authored by aGreekdiplomat.一位希腊外交官正在牵头促成这项协议。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Writing & typing
  • asemic
  • bashsomethingout
  • borrow
  • calligrapher
  • carriage return
  • fair
  • jot
  • minute
  • overwrite
  • re-registration
  • readability
  • recompose
  • reformulate
  • registration
  • rekey
  • scribble
  • tab
  • unwritten
  • writ
  • writing
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Creating and producing
Inventing, designing and innovation
(Definition ofauthorfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

author| American Dictionary

author
noun[C]
us
/ˈɔ·θər/
awriterof abook,article, etc., or apersonwhosemainjobis writingbooks:
atalentedyoungauthor
He is the author of sevenbooks.

author

verb[T]us
/ˈɔ·θər/
Murphyauthoredthe newlegislation.
(Definition ofauthorfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

author| Business English

author
noun[C]
uk
/ˈɔːθər/us
thewriterof abook,article, etc.:
He is abest-sellingauthor.
Theauthor ofthereportsaid hisfindingswere veryworrying.
apersonwhobeginsorcreatessomething:
Theauthors oftheproposalwantit to beadoptedimmediately.
author
verb[T]
uk
/ˈɔːθər/us
to write abook,article, etc.:
She has authored aseriesofreportson theglobalenergycrisis.
Thestudywasjointlyauthoredby Smith and Wilks.
tocreatesomething orformallysuggestit:
TheRepublicanCongressmanagreedto author thebill.
(Definition ofauthorfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofauthor

author
The authors carefully motivate what they are attempting to accomplish in every section.
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According to the authors, a linguistic theory does not characterize the mental object of study but rather the regularities in its external behaviour.
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As the authors note, this is a preliminary study with a small data set, and more research should be carried out to substantiate their findings.
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The authors have gone to considerable lengths to add to the stock of data in the anglophone linguistics literature.
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The strengths of the individual chapters rest with the experience and knowledge of the authors.
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According the authors in this stimulating collection, the answer to such questions lies in the realm of the image.
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A final observation concerns the author's emphasis on the ' invisibility' of the monarch.
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The authors conclude the book by outlining criteria for successful border institutions.
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The authors propose new ways to study and understand social and labour history.
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The national cases and topics are very diverse and the authors sometimes resort to very different analytical and interpretative frameworks.
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However, the book's shortcoming is that it does not translate the author's admirable intentions into analysis.
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I will take two examples : their attitude to translations, and their manipulation of the author's marginalia.
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However, the performance information was supplied by the vendors and not confirmed by the authors.
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However, the authors also stress the limitations of the market-oriented model that all five republics are trying to emulate.
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The authors' perspective is a 'constructionist' one, seeing inquiries as providing accounts to satisfy institutional needs.
From theCambridge English Corpus
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Collocationswithauthor

author

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accomplished author
He was also an accomplished author who wrote an extensive autobiography and other books.
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Wikipedia
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aspiring author
Parsons rejected his request in a harsh letter which implied that an aspiring author merely ' ' plays with his books, - and thinks he is working when he is only playing hard.
From theCambridge English Corpus
best-selling author
Of course, if he were a best-selling author it might be £1,000.
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