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单词 historian
释义
historian
(hɪstɔːriən )
Word forms: historians
countable noun
A historian is a person who specializes in the study of history, and who writes books and articles about it.
These letters are an intense read for historians.
Synonyms: chronicler, recorder, biographer, antiquarian  
Quotations:
Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completenessSimon SchamaDead Certainties
History repeats itself. Historians repeat each otherPhilip GuedallaSupers and Supermen
historian: a broad-gauge gossipAmbrose BierceThe Devil's Dictionary
Collocations:
film historian
The film contained a supporting cast referred to by one film historian as second-rate and excellent by another.
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The book features many interviews with the leading actors and directors of the silent era and began his career as a film historian.
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Then in the 1970s she started receiving approaches from film historians.
Times,Sunday Times
The latter was used, according to film historians, throughout the 1940s and 1950s.
Times, Sunday Times
In his nineties he gave several interviews to film historians eager to hear about the industry's formative years.
Times, Sunday Times
historian of science
It has been awarded annually since 1955 to an outstanding historian of science selected from the international scholarly community.
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He was also a renowned taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, and historian of science.
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But historians of science should welcome them with open arms.
The Times Literary Supplement
Meanwhile, historians of science dismissed its practitioners as gullible fools.
The Times Literary Supplement
Even the greatest mathematicians end up being read, if at all, only by a tiny cabal of historians of science.
The Times Literary Supplement
military historian
Still, there are compensations for the journalist turned military historian.
Times, Sunday Times
Now a feted military historian, he has delivered another knockout reassessment of one of the second world war's great setpiece battles.
Times, Sunday Times
He accordingly reinvented himself with enthusiasm and resourcefulness several times, eventually returning to his youthful experiences in a prolific career as a military historian.
Times, Sunday Times
Like me, he's a military historian.
Times, Sunday Times
He first marked himself as a military historian.
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modern historian
However, at least one modern historian believes the accusations were exaggerated by his enemies.
The Sun
One modern historian suggests the hurricane passed much closer to the province than previously thought.
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As one modern historian has put it, it was simply too little and too late.
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Unlike the modern historian, most chroniclers tended to take their information as they found it, and made little attempt to separate fact from legend.
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He also provides the modern historian with several pieces of crucial information not found elsewhere.
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oral historian
He was also a folklorist, ethnomusicologist, archivist, writer, scholar, political activist, oral historian, and film-maker.
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Designed for the advanced student and experienced oral historian, these essays present the essentials of oral history, conceptualized with theory, informed by historiography, and stimulated by new field methods.
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Now oral historians are diligently recording for posterity the accounts of those who worked there.
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Whatever the field or focus of a project, oral historians attempt to record the memories of many different people when researching a given event.
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The mhondoros also served as oral historians recording the names and deeds of past kings.
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professional historian
Everything we say and write must stand the test of rigorous public accountability, just as any work by any professional historian must do.
Christianity Today
If the professional historian need not always reflect on the purposes of history, the historical novelist should.
The Times Literary Supplement
Perhaps it's just the snobbery of a professional historian, but those labyrinthine charts leave me cold.
Times,Sunday Times
Without the patient labour of the professional historian, by what mark should we have known the deception?
The Times Literary Supplement
His lack of academic training as a professional historian has provoked criticism from some quarters within that discipline.
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revisionist historian
Over the past thirty years, however, revisionist historians have been busy undermining the foundations supporting this venerable idea.
The Times Literary Supplement
Revisionist historians have written that she became depressed that it took her so long to recognise the infectious causes of the high death rate.
Times, Sunday Times
Revisionist historians use deception techniques to help achieve their political or ideological goals.
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Because historians are credited as people who single-mindedly pursue truth, revisionist historians capitalize on the profession's credibility and present their pseudohistory as true scholarship.
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But, revisionist historians have argued that it created more lawlessness than it eliminated.
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social historian
Indeed, in her wise, sidelong, clear-eyed way she was something of a social historian.
The Times Literary Supplement
The late distinguished social historian looks at the 'long decade' 1958-74.
Times, Sunday Times
From this information alone a social historian could probably guess my age to within five years.
Times,Sunday Times
He was also an accomplished book designer, small press publisher, biker, houseboat owner, pianist, archivist and social historian.
Times, Sunday Times
He combines the serendipity of the flâneur with the sensitivity of the social historian.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 历史学家
Japanese: 歴史家
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