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单词 author
释义
author
(ɔːθəʳ )
Word forms: authors , authoring, authored
1. countable noun B1
The author of a piece of writing is the person who wrote it.
She is the joint author of a booklet on Integrated Education. [+ of]
2. countable noun B1
An author is a person whose job is writing books.
...Philip Pullman, the best-selling author of children's fiction.
3. countable noun
The author of a plan or proposal is the person who thinks of it and works out the details.
The authors of the plan believe they can reach this point within about two years. [+ of]
4. verb
To author something means to be the author of it.
Then he opened a restaurant, authored a book, and landed his own radio show. [VERB noun]
5.  See also co-author
Quotations:
There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in thisC.N. Bovee
Collocations:
author biography
At the back of this slender volume there's a list of author biographies that are very nearly as entertaining as the poems.
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In addition to general catalog maintenance, users are encouraged to contribute reviews, descriptions, lists of characters and settings, author biographies, categories, and descriptive tags.
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Both contain identical photographs of the author, below which appear identical author biographies.
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In addition to author biographies, the series publishes volumes on literary topics, periods, and genres.
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The book includes seventeen short stories, and a nine-page set of brief author biographies at the end.
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author cites
This author cites the signposts in history to warn the reader.
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The author cites numerous other authors both in the recommended reading section and in live lectures.
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The author cites accounts of human beings from the fifth-century who suffered as a result of their savage diet.
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The hub score increases if the author cites papers published by authors with high authority scores.
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The author cites his belief in the future of aviation as his primary motive for the flight, and tried to capture that in his book.
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authors concluded
The authors concluded that 'the probability of malaria eradication jumps sharply when average household size drops below four persons'.
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The recommendation to eat breakfast 'had no discernible effect on weight loss', the authors concluded.
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The authors concluded that the hungrier subjects were more supportive of sharing society's resources and more likely to remind others of the value of redistribution of wealth.
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The authors concluded that their 'more consumerist and individualistic' attitudes were shaping their view of the economy and public spending.
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The authors concluded that gardening should also be considered a healthy activity for the over-sixties.
Times, Sunday Times
award-winning author
If you haven't heard of the award-winning author and illustrator and his giant gorilla by now, you soon will.
Times, Sunday Times
As you'd expect from the award-winning author, the illustrations are bright and vibrant and make the book a must-have for any three to five-year-old.
The Sun
Great vocabulary and quirky pictures means the award-winning author has come up with another engaging and thoroughly enjoyable tale.
The Sun
But the award-winning author cringes whenever he thinks of his decision to transfer 120,000 to a fraudster.
Times, Sunday Times
Award-winning author, her books are published in some twenty countries.
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best-selling author
The following day the best-selling author, fundraiser, politician and former prisoner will sell off a selection of his art collection.
Times, Sunday Times
Yesterday, the former champion jump jockey, best-selling author and recently retired television pundit was doing a different type of work.
Times, Sunday Times
It made her a well-known and best-selling author.
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He retired in 1975 and became a best-selling author of comedy books.
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He was a best-selling author in the 1950s, based both on his novels and books about his wartime service.
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celebrated author
But the inference that the council has drawn from it would have provoked a visceral response from the celebrated author and professional curmudgeon.
Times, Sunday Times
A heroic figure among journalists, and a prolific and celebrated author, he wrote 21 books, 15 of which were bestsellers.
Times, Sunday Times
Now in her forties, a grandmother and celebrated author, she became ravaged by anxiety.
The Times Literary Supplement
It's such a tricky business that even the most celebrated authors, with just the tiniest stumble, can suddenly fall foul of dreaded 'translationese'.
Times, Sunday Times
Highly regarded publishers and agents can command up to four-figure sums from hopeful writers by offering tuition from celebrated authors within the walls of their august premises.
Times, Sunday Times
distinguished author
However, between 1963 and 2000 she produced a series of books that established her as a distinguished author in her own right.
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He did merit the conservation of his name to posterity of a distinguished author, collector of letters and even their maker.
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He was a distinguished author on the subject of history of science and technology and his books have been translated into many languages.
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He was a distinguished author, musician, sportsman, sports administrator, artist and teacher.
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Many of these pieces are by distinguished authors, and some are outstanding studies.
The Times Literary Supplement
famous author
Families often control the literary remains of a famous author, believing themselves appropriate stewards of genius.
The Times Literary Supplement
Ask any performer on a long, lonely tour, any famous author staggering from one reading to the next, any roving reporter or stand-up comic.
Times, Sunday Times
But the association with the famous author bumps it up to about $26,000.
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When a famous author delivers an underwhelming performance, there are usually flatterers on hand to reassure him.
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Of course, it's also weird to go downstairs and have a famous author telling you to tidy up your room or do your homework.
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fiction author
One popular fiction author uses the sarlacc as a descriptive term for slowness, a reference to the sarlacc's extended digestive process.
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He was originally a fiction/science fiction author.
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The proponents in a debate might also use the term handwaving against themselves, in the same sense as a speculative fiction author, as noted above.
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Each book in the series offered a facsimile of the first edition of the work with a new introduction written by a contemporary science fiction author.
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Important areas of technology, such as robotics, artificial intelligence and virtual reality have been written about by science fiction authors.
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first-time author
She has a relaxed authority rare in a first-time author.
Times, Sunday Times
For a first-time author it was a shattering experience.
Times, Sunday Times
The top entry from a first-time author will also win a designer case filled with great travel goodies.
The Sun
As a first-time author, she has agreed to pay for some of the costs of publishing the book upfront.
Times, Sunday Times
Not that the nervous first-time author seems to be enjoying his new career.
Times, Sunday Times
lead author
Indeed, the lead author of the university study makes this very assertion.
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The paper's lead author doubts this was simply the result of exhaustion from having to swim further from ice to shore.
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It builds on a methodology for analysis of structural changes that was developed by the lead author.
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Last week, an open letter signed by 50 leading authors calling for an end to the practice was posted online.
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Spend an evening with four leading authors and decide for yourself.
Times, Sunday Times
principal author
And he was the principal author of his own misfortune.
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He was the principal author of the law of separation, but, not content with preparing it, he wished to apply it as well.
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He was a principal author of that law, together with its implementing rules, requiring prior conciliation as a condition for judicial recourse.
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Of the 13 principal authors, five were academics and five were journalists.
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Of the manifesto's principal authors, two were broadly against the war; two were broadly in support.
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prolific author
Miraculously he survived, and became a prolific author.
The Times Literary Supplement
If you have to choose one novel by this prolific author to read this year, then make it this one.
Times, Sunday Times
The prolific author will earn a reported 5 million after agreeing to appear in five different spells for the club over the next 12 years.
Times, Sunday Times
Hunter was also a prolific author, editing the definitive texts in his area of specialism, and compiling several influential others.
Times, Sunday Times
He was a prolific author, publishing more than 500 scientific papers.
Times, Sunday Times
published author
Here she gives an insight into the journey from secret scribbler to published author.
Times, Sunday Times
Being a published author has made her a celebrity at her old haunts and garnered a fan base (and some hate mail too).
Times, Sunday Times
She was particularly proud of the way in which she had practically educated herself, especially when she became a published author.
Times, Sunday Times
I want to meet new friends, become a published author and travel the world.
The Sun
If his profile says he's a published author, has a yacht or a small island, he's 85 if he's a day.
Times, Sunday Times
renowned author
He became not just an internationally renowned author and educator but a universal symbol of the human spirit's ability to triumph over evil.
Times, Sunday Times
The interior melds the two worlds that so greatly shaped the life of this renowned author.
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He was an internationally renowned author and scholar.
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The company continued to publish them; it also brought out several biographical works about its most renowned author.
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A renowned author has concluded his last volume.
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senior author
But on this occasion, with both a male first author and senior author, it was perhaps not the forum to say so.
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From 1949 to 1990, he wrote, as senior author, 356 papers on all aspects of neurosurgery.
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He has been the first/senior author of 100 papers and abstracts.
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unknown author
In fact, he's so keen to get into the mindset of its unknown author that he wants to physically retrace its steps.
Times, Sunday Times
There's something extra special about receiving a brand-new book by an unknown author.
Times, Sunday Times
It was a highly successful book for a hitherto unknown author, selling more than 30,000 copies.
Times, Sunday Times
No publisher would touch the unknown author, so he self-published, and the only distributor willing to handle it was a specialist in adult magazines.
Times, Sunday Times
Overnight, its unknown author became a national celebrity.
Times, Sunday Times
well-known author
Before becoming a well-known author, she was a nurse.
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Madeleine was a well-known author in her own right.
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She may have been attracted to the idea of marrying a well-known author.
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Each contestant will also receive a review from a celebrity panel consisting of at least one well-known author, one agent, and one editor.
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He was a prolific writer, and a well-known author of the latter times.
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Translations:
Chinese: 作者
Japanese: 著者
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