-
a person whose job is writing books, stories, articles, etc. 作家；作者；著者 Who's your favourite writer? 你最喜歡的作家是誰？ a travel/cookery/science fiction writer 旅行/烹飪/科幻小說作家 a freelance feature writer for ‘Time’ magazine 《時代》雜志的自由撰稿人 writers of poetry/fiction 詩歌/小說作家 the first Russian writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature 第一位獲得諾貝爾文學獎的俄羅斯作家 She left her job to become a full-time writer. 她辭去工作，成爲一名全職作家。
Extra ExamplesTopics Literature and writinga1, Jobsa1As one twelfth-century writer put it, English wine could be drunk only with closed eyes and through clenched teeth. 正如12 世紀的一位作家所說，英國的葡萄酒只有閉着眼睛並且咬緊牙關才能喝下去。 He is a prominent writer on civil liberties. 他是公民自由問題的著名撰稿人。 Is political culture, as some writers have suggested, in a state of collapse? 政治文化是不是像某些作家所暗示的那樣，處於崩潰的狀態？ She gives talks about being a black woman writer. 她就作爲一名黑人女性作家發表了演講。 The writer drew on his own experience to write this script. 該作家根據自身經歷撰寫了這個劇本。 Unlike many writers of the period, she is not preoccupied with morality. 與許多當代作家不一樣，她並非只關注道德問題。 a chance for aspiring writers to get their work published 讓有抱負的作家發表作品的機會 a popular writer who has written over forty books 寫過 40 餘本書的當紅作家 a very prolific crime writer 非常多産的犯罪題材小說作家 a writer of children's books 兒童圖書作者 early writers in sociology 社會學領域早期的作者 her career as a writer 她的作家生涯 one of the best writers in journalism today 現今新聞界最好的撰稿人之一 one of the greatest writers of all time 有史以來最偉大的作家之一 He joined the newspaper in 1923 as an editorial writer. 他於1923年加入該報，擔任社論作者。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- celebrated
- distinguished
- eminent
- …
- write something
- argue something
- describe something
- …
- as writer
- writer for
- writer of
- …
- a group of writers
- a writer’s group
- a writer in residence
- …
-
a person who has written a particular thing 寫…的人；執筆者；撰寫人 the writer of this letter 寫這封信的人 I used to be a prolific letter writer. 我曾經是一個多産的寫信人。
Extra ExamplesThe present writer has no experience in microbiology. 筆者在微生物學方面毫無經驗。 a writer to the letters column 讀者來信欄目的作者 the writer of this article/computer program 這篇文章/計算機程序的作者
(with an adjective 與形容詞連用 a person who forms letters in a particular way when they are writing 寫字…的人 a messy writer 書寫潦草的人
Word OriginOld English wrītere, of Germanic origin.