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 author ['ɔθɚ]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 作家, 作家的著作, 创始人

[法] 作者, 著作人, 本人


  1. Dickens is his favorite author.
    狄更斯是他最喜欢的作家、
  2. The author seems to strain after novelty.
    作者似乎在力图标新立异。
  3. This book shows that he is an ingenious author.
    这本书表明他是一个有创造力的作家。


author
[ noun ]
  1. writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)

  2. <noun.person>
  3. someone who originates or causes or initiates something

  4. <noun.person>
    he was the generator of several complaints
[ verb ]
  1. be the author of

  2. <verb.creation>
    She authored this play


Author \Au"thor\ ([add]"th[~e]r), n. [OE. authour, autour, OF.
autor, F. auteur, fr. L. auctor, sometimes, but erroneously,
written autor or author, fr. augere to increase, to produce.
See {Auction}, n.]
1. The beginner, former, or first mover of anything; hence,
the efficient cause of a thing; a creator; an originator.

Eternal King; thee, Author of all being. --Milton.

2. One who composes or writes a book; a composer, as
distinguished from an editor, translator, or compiler.

The chief glory of every people arises from its
authors. --Johnson.

3. The editor of a periodical. [Obs.]

4. An informant. [Archaic] --Chaucer.


Author \Au"thor\ ([add]"th[~e]r), v. t.
1. To occasion; to originate. [Obs.]

Such an overthrow . . . I have authored. --Chapman.

2. To tell; to say; to declare. [Obs.]

More of him I dare not author. --Massinger.

  1. Maud Van Cortlandt Oakes, a well known author and self-taught anthropologist who studied Navajo and Guatemalan Indians, died Sunday after a long illness at age 87.
  2. The essay did not indicate where the author lived or where the purported incident took place.
  3. The conclusion is based on Goodwin's observations as well as discussions about Johnson the author had at the time with a psychiatrist.
  4. I shall look at some of the options next week. The author is former director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies and was a special adviser to the former chancellor, Mr Norman Lamont.
  5. "These are general human rights, and they should be respected," Yuri V. Dubinin, the Soviet ambassador, said at a news conference in which he steered clear of the widespread condemnation of Iranian death threats against the author.
  6. Dr. Gray is principal author of the study in today's New England Journal of Medicine.
  7. The author was a lecturer in philosophy at the London School of Economics before spending 14 years as an investment banker and is now running her own consultancy. Dr Sternberg has two theses.
  8. But one day, something really will have to be done. The author is the former chairman of Midland Bank and former deputy governor of the Bank of England.
  9. Her first novel, "Dusty Answer," won immediate fame for the young author when it was published in 1927.
  10. Thought for today: "People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust." _ E.B. White, American author and humorist (1899-1985).
  11. Two years ago, author Joseph Wambaugh was intrigued by newspaper accounts about how the murderer of two teen-age girls in England was discovered through a new process of identification called genetic fingerprinting.
  12. Burns, author of the best-selling novel "Gracie: A Love Story," about his late wife Gracie Allen, planned to formally announce the gift to reporters later in the day.
  13. He was the author of numerous books and articles on medical, scientific and social subjects.
  14. The figures given were the author's estimate for total costs of attendance, including room and board.
  15. "Japanese bureaucrats will never instruct securities companies to manipulate the market, but they'll allow as though they'd let it happen," said Masakazu Kobayashi, a Kabuto-cho author and investor advocate.
  16. Ms. Ehrenfeld is the author of "Narco-Terrorism," to be published by Basic Books this fall, and a research scholar at New York University School of Law.
  17. In the author's iconoclastic view, the years 1992-2020 will see per capita real income in the U.S. grow at an annual average rate of at least 2.5%, but probably closer to 3%, up from an average of 2% between 1950 and 1986.
  18. This leaves the author in a dilemma: He values the market mechanism but he also values stability.
  19. Aluminum analyst Stewart R. Spector, author of the Spector Report, predicts Russian exports could fall by "several hundred thousand tons."
  20. At Star Cottage, beginning today, meetings are promised with 'mechanical artist and author Lys de Bray, lately of Turnpike Cottage, Wimborne.'
  21. Miss McCarthy died at New York Hospital, said Dixie Sheridan, spokeswoman for the author's alma mater, Vassar College in Poughkeepsie.
  22. But every Conservative seat is at risk. The table gives, in rough order, the seats in which the Tories have the best chance of survival and the 10 best bets for the Liberal Democrats. The author is a fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford.
  23. Bruno Bettelheim, a psychologist and prolific author who studied under Sigmund Freud and gained fame for his work with emotionally disturbed children, killed himself Tuesday in a Maryland nursing home, a medical examiner said.
  24. The allegations focused on the "COS Limited Partnership" Gingrich formed to promote a book, "Window of Opportunity," he wrote with his wife and a third author.
  25. In 1940, author F. Scott Fitzgerald died in Hollywood at the age of 44.
  26. Iran's relations with the West have chilled over the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's death threat against Salman Rushdie, author of the novel "The Satanic Verses," which many Moslems consider blasphemous.
  27. Indeed, in a sense, the execution of this book, itself gives the lie to the author's central thesis: there is an overwhelming, verbose cloudiness in the central visionary passages which denies all the harmony.
  28. Her former companion had sued the author and the publishers of her book for $4,750,000 in damages.
  29. In 1892, author and newscaster Lowell Thomas was born in Woodington, Ohio.
  30. "There is a risk, but you have to keep that risk in perspective," said the study's lead author, Dr. David Henderson of the NIH.
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