author

一、真题好句
author 高中必修500 全国卷频次:115 教材出处:译林版必修B2U4
/ˈɔːθə(r)/ /ˈɔːθər/
n.&v. authors 4 authors 0 authoring 0 authored 0
作家，创造者 & 著(书)，写作；编写
高考真题原句提选：
The report lists ten books, and various authors, which people have lied about reading.
Two of the authors of the review also made a study published in 2014.
Rereading an author’s work is the highest currency a reader can pay them.
Since graduation, I have authored 34 nationally published children’s books and over 300 stories and articles.

二、词组｜习惯用语
original author 原著者
main author 主要作者
corresponding author n. 通讯作者；联系人
other author 其他作者

三、词根记忆

author
n.
作者,作家,著作人;創始人,發起人The prose author’s diagnosis discloses that the hose is damaged.散文作者的診斷透露軟管被損壞.

author / 5C:WE(r) /
noun
1. a person who writes books or the person who wrote a particular book
著者；作者；作家:
Who is your favourite author?
你最喜欢哪位作家？
He is the author of seven books on art.
他写了三本艺术专着。
best-selling author Joan Collins
畅销书作家琼 · 柯林斯
Who’s the author?
作者是谁？
2. the person who creates or starts sth, especially a plan or an idea
(尤指计划或思想的)创造者,发起人:
As the author of the proposal I cannot agree with you.
我作为提案的发起人不能同意你的意见。
verb
[VN] (formal) to be the author of a book, report, etc.
着作；写作；编写

author1 /ˈɔːθə $ ˈɒːθər/ ●●● W2 AWL noun [countable] 1  someone who has written a book 作者，作家，著作人 SYN writer
Nothomb is a Belgian author.
诺东是位比利时作家。
author of
He was the author of two books on China.
他写过两本有关中国的书。
It’s clear that the author is a woman.
显然，这位作者是女性。
2  formal the person who starts a plan or idea 〔计划、主张的〕创始人，发起者 SYN initiator
author of
the author of the state reforms
州政府改革的发起者
—authorial /ɔːˈθɔːriəl $ ɒː-/ adjective [only before noun] author2 AWL verb [transitive] to be the writer of a book, report etc 创作，写作，撰写
Origin author1 (1300-1400) Old North French auctour, from Latin auctor “maker, writer”, from augere; → AUGMENT

author ★★★★☆
1.N-COUNT 可数名词作者;著作者 The author of a piece of writing is the person who wrote it.

【搭配模式】：oft N of n
…Jill Phillips, author of the book ‘Give Your Child Music’.

吉尔·菲利普斯，《给孩子音乐》一书的作者

2.N-COUNT 可数名词作家 An author is a person whose job is writing books.
Haruki Murakami is Japan’s best-selling author.

村上春树是日本当红的畅销书作家。

3.N-COUNT 可数名词(计划或建议的）筹划者，制定者 The author of a plan or proposal is the person who thinks of it and works out the details.

【搭配模式】：N of n
The authors of the plan believe they can reach this point within about two years.

该计划的提出者相信他们约在两年内可以达成该目标。

4.VERB 动词创作；撰写 To author something means to be the author of it.

【语法信息】：V n

【语法信息】：V-ed
Then he opened a restaurant, authored a book, and landed his own radio show.

后来他开了个餐馆，写了本书，还制作了自己的广播剧。

…a proposal authored by subcommittee chairman Quentin Burdick.

专门小组委员会主席昆廷·伯迪克提出的建议

5.See also:co-author;

1 author /ˈɑːθɚ/ noun
plural authors [count] 1
: a person who has written something著者；作者
The author of the article didn’t check his facts.
文章的作者没有核实事实。
especially : a person who has written a book or who writes many books（尤指）书籍作者，作家
I enjoyed the book, but I can’t remember the name of the/its author.
我喜欢这本书，但我记不得作者的名字了。
a best-selling author [=writer] 畅销书作家
2
: a person who starts or creates something (such as a plan or idea)创始人；发起人
She is the author of a plan for reforming the school system.
她是教育体制改革计划的发起人。
2 author /ˈɑːθɚ/ verb
authors; authored; authoring [+ object] : to be the author of (something, such as a book)撰写；创作
He has authored [=written] several best-selling novels.
他写了几部畅销小说。
She authored [=wrote] several articles for the magazine.
她为这家杂志撰写了几篇文章。