writernoun
作家；作者；著者
a person whose job is writing books, stories, articles, etc.
writers of poetry
诗人
a travel/cookery, etc. writer
游记作家、写菜谱的人等
写…的人；执笔者；撰写人
a person who has written a particular thing
the writer of this letter
写这封信的人
写字…的人
a person who forms letters in a particular way when they are writing
a messy writer
书写潦草的人
writer
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N-COUNT (专业)作家
A writer is a person who writes books, stories, or articles as a job.Turner is a writer and critic.
特纳是作家兼批评家。
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N-COUNT （特定文章、报告、信件或故事的）作者，撰写者
The writer of a particular article, report, letter, or story is the person who wrote it.No-one is to see the document without the permission of the writer of the report...
此报告未经作者允许，任何人不得翻阅。
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She first made her name as a writer of children 's books .
她最初是以儿童读物作家成名的。
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I didn 't expect him to become a successful writer .
我没想到他会成为一个成功的作家。
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Success as a writer demands great application .
作家要成功就得悉力以赴。
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Her sole object in life is to become a travel writer .
她人生的唯一目标就是当游记作家。
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He is a writer first and a scientist second .
他首先是作家，然后才是科学家。
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The writer uses her childhood as raw material for this novel .
作者将她的童年时代作为这部小说的素材。
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What are your main concerns as a writer ?
作为一名作家，你主要关注的是哪些问题？
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This chapter contains the real meat of the writer 's argument .
这一章包含了作者的主要论点。
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She never achieved her ambition of becoming a famous writer .
她一直未能实现当名作家的夙愿。
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He does a little teaching , but first and foremost he 's a writer .
他干一点教学，但首要的是写作。
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The writer clearly intends his readers to identify with the main character .
作者显然想使读者能与主人公产生共鸣。
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The writer illustrates his point by quotation from a number of sources .
作者旁征博引以阐明自己的观点。
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I hear that you 're a writer ─ is that so ?
听说你是作家——是吗？
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I have great admiration for her as a writer .
我十分钦佩她这位作家。
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As a writer he seemed to lack creative spark .
作为作家，他似乎缺少创作激情。
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Few writers approach his richness of language .
他语言之丰富很少有作家能望其项背。
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Her lifelong dream was to be a famous writer .
她的毕生愿望就是成为名作家。
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She was more famous as a writer than as a singer .
她作为作家比作为歌手名声要大。
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Dickens was pre-eminent among English writers of his day .
狄更斯在其同时期英国作家中最为出色。
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The writer paints a gloomy picture of the economy .
作者把经济状况描绘得一片惨淡。
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When I was younger , I had romantic ideas of becoming a writer .
我年轻一些的时候幻想过要成为一名作家。
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He 's not nearly such a good writer as he 's cracked up to be .
他远不是人们所说的那种优秀作家。
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The writer 's name was withheld by request .
按照作者的要求，其姓名不予公布。
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So you want to be a writer ? Well my advice is , don 't give up the day job .
这么说你想成为一个作家了？得了，我劝你不要放弃老本行。
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A talented artist , he was , moreover , a writer of some note .
他是一位有才华的艺术家，同时也是颇有名气的作家。
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The cultural life of the country will sink into atrophy unless more writers and artists emerge .
如果没有更多的作家和艺术家出现，这个国家的文化生活将衰退。
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The programme did much to popularize little-known writers .
这个节目大力宣扬不太知名的作家。
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She is a writer of international repute .
她是一位享有国际声誉的作家。
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The writer attempts a recreation of the sights and sounds of his childhood .
作家试图再现他童年的所见所闻。
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He has been pigeonholed as a children 's writer .
他硬被归入儿童文学作家之列。
普通用词，含义较广，多指以写作为职业的作家，一般限于传统文学体裁（如小说、戏剧、诗歌、散文等）之范畴；也可指普通报刊文章、报道、论文、甚至广告文字的撰写者或写家。有时可用于含褒、贬之意的非正式说法。
a ghost/hack/prolific writer
一个捉刀人/雇佣文人/多产作家
Defoe was a famous English writer.
笛福是英国的著名作家。
She was the writer of the letter.
她就是写这封信的人。
This example shows that good writers always try to avoid ambiguity.
这个例子说明，会写文章的人总是尽量避免歧义。
较正式用词，常特指某一文章、著作等的作者；指作家时，其与writer 的显著区别就是并不强调是否以写作为职业，而只强调写作出版的事实。
He became an author quite late in life.
他晚年才成为作家。
If you know the author only, just look it up in the author catalogue.
如果你只知道著作人，那就查作者目录。
In his preface, the author set forth his reasons for writing the book.
作者在前言中阐明了他写该书的原因。
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