词组 | writer |
释义 | writer /ˈraɪtə $ -ər/ noun someone who writes books, stories, articles etcadjectivesa good/great/fine writer I think Margaret Atwood is a very good writer. | Shakespeare was the greatest writer who ever lived.a modern/contemporary writer He was one of Japan’s most original modern writers.a prolific writer (=someone who writes a lot of books, stories etc) P.G. Wodehouse was a prolific writer who wrote hundreds of books and short stories.a freelance writer (=who is paid to write articles etc for various employers) She now works as a freelance writer.nouns + writera fiction/science-fiction/mystery etc writer The movie is based on a story by the science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick.a travel/history/sports etc writer (=someone who writes articles and books about a subject) I like to read books by travel writers when I’m on holiday.prepositionsa writer on sth He was one of the finest writers on art of the 20th century.a writer of sth She is best known as a writer of short stories.THESAURUS: writer author someone who writes books, especially works of literature, or someone who wrote a particular book: Among the guests was the author Salman Rushdie. | The author will be signing copies of his book. | He was the author of ‘How to Win Friends and Influence People’. novelist someone who writes books about imaginary people or events: Charles Dickens was one of the greatest 19th-century novelists. | the romantic novelist Barbara Cartland poet someone who writes poems: a class studying the works of modern American poets | Seamus Heaney is one of our greatest living poets. | ‘No man is an island.’ These lines were written by the English poet John Donne. playwright someone who writes plays: Shakespeare was the greatest playwright in the English language. | She was a friend of the playwright Harold Pinter. dramatist someone who writes plays – used especially in literary writing, about playwrights in the past: We studied the work of the great French dramatist, Molière. scriptwriter someone who writes television shows or films: Three or four scriptwriters work on the show. blogger someone who regularly writes about a particular subject on their own website: He is a blogger who writes about the differences between American and British English. |
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