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author/ˈɔ:θə/ n. & v.●n. (fem. authoress /ˈɔ:θris, ɔ:θəˈres/) 1 a writer, esp. of books (尤指书的)作者，著者 2 the originator of an event, a condition, etc. (事件、情况等的)发起人，创始者；始作俑者 the author of all my woes 我所有痛苦的始作俑者 ●v. tr. 1 disp. be the author of (a book, article, etc.) [异议]写作，编写(文章、书籍等) 2 be the originator of (an idea, condition, circumstance, etc.); bring about 发起，创始；提出；使产生 □ authorial /ɔ:ˈθɔ:riəl/ adj.[Middle English via Anglo-French autour, Old French autor from Latin auctor, from augēre auct- ‘increase, originate, promote’]■ Usage 用法说明 Author can be used of both male and female writers and many women writers prefer it to authoress. The use of the verb author as a mere synonym for write (as in he authored several books on the subject) is deplored by many people, although author is different from write in that it implies publication of the text produced. In addition, author is often used in contexts where the person or people responsible for the text (often a committee) did not actually write it themselves, and where the thing written is a report, article, or document, rather than a book, e.g. The chairperson of the commission that authored the report referred to it several times in her speech. In the terminology of computing, authoring is used to mean the creation of programs, databases, etc., as in the phrases authoring system, authoring package, or authoring tool. Unlike author, co-author is generally acceptable as a verb. author 一词既可以指男性也可以指女性，许多女性作家并不喜用 authoress 。将动词 author 作 write 的同义词用(例如 : He authored several books on the subject. 对这个课题他写过好几本书。)，尽管其意思稍有区别(寓意所写文章已经发表)，还是受到很多人的批评。另外， author 还经常用于指对某文章负责的人(通常为一若干人的委员会)，而并非真正执笔的人，并且所写的东西也通常并不是书，而是报告、论文或文件等。(例如 : The chairperson of the commission that authored the report referred to it several times in her speech. 出具报告之委员会的主席在谈话中几番提到该报告。)在计算机词汇中， authoring 一词指创建程序、数据库等，例如 : authoring system 创建系统； authoring package 创建文件包； authoring tool 创建工具软件。与 author 不同， co-author 作动词则是被普遍接受的。 |