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词汇 author
释义 author
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈɔː.θər/ us /ˈɑː.θɚ/
B1
the writer of a book, article, play, etc.: 作者,作家;著者
He is the author of two books on French history.他是两部法国历史著作的作者。
formal
a person who begins or creates something: 发起者,创始人
She's the author of the company's recent success/of all our troubles.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。
The author has tried to deal with a very difficult subject.
In his preface, the author says that he took eight years to write the book.在前言中,作者说他写这本书用了8年。
She's a best-selling author .
He's the author of several hugely successful children's books .
There was a biographical note about the author on the back of the book.书的背面有作者的生平简介。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

People who write for work or pleasure
authorial
autobiographer
belletrist
blogger
Braillist
chronicler
columnist
cub reporter
novelist
poet laureate
satirist
screenwriter
scribbler
scribe
scrivener
self-parody
Shakespeare
songsmith
stylist
symbolist

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Causing things to happen
author
verb[ T ]
uk /ˈɔː.θər/ us /ˈɑː.θɚ/
formal
to write a book, article, etc.: 撰写,写作;编写
He has authored more than 30 books.他已经写了30多本书。
mainly US
to create something: 发起,始创;创造
The deal is being authored by a Greek diplomat.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
agraphia
asemic
bang
bang something out
bash something out
borrow
chart
contribute
dot
draw
orthography
put someone down for something
put something/someone down
re-register
re-registration
readability
scrawl
semiotics
speller
transcribe

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Creating and producing
Inventing, designing and innovation

author | American Dictionary


author
noun[ C ]
us/ˈɔ·θər/
a writer of a book, article, etc., or a person whose main job is writing books:
a talented young author
He is the author of seven books.

author


verb[ T ]us/ˈɔ·θər/
Murphy authored the new legislation.

author | Business English


author
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈɔːθər/us
the writer of a book, article, etc.:
He is a best-selling author.
The author of the report said his findings were very worrying.
a person who begins or creates something:
The authors of the proposal want it to be adopted immediately.
author
verb[ T ]
uk /ˈɔːθər/us
to write a book, article, etc.:
She has authored a series of reports on the global energy crisis.
The study was jointly authored by Smith and Wilks.
to create something or formally suggest it:
The Republican Congressman agreed to author the bill.

Examples of author


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


author

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accomplished author
He was also an accomplished author who wrote an extensive autobiography and other books.
From
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.
best-selling author
Of course, if he were a best-selling author it might be £1,000.
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