- 1nB1
/ˈdʒɜːrnəlɪst/ · /ˈdʒɜːnəlɪst/
Someone whose job is to find out the news and report it to the public.
記者
複數 journalists
核心畫面
Picture someone whose job is to find out what happened today and tell everyone else — notebook out, questions ready, deadline tonight. The word is built on journal, which carries the idea of a daily record, and that daily beat is still inside the job.
可以想成：有個人的工作就是去弄清楚今天發生了什麼事，然後說給大家聽——筆記本翻開、問題準備好、今晚就要交稿。這個字建…更多收起
可以想成：有個人的工作就是去弄清楚今天發生了什麼事，然後說給大家聽——筆記本翻開、問題準備好、今晚就要交稿。這個字建在 journal（日誌、期刊）上面，那種「每天記下來」的節奏一直留在這份工作裡。原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
journalistnoun/ˈd͡ʒɝnəlɪst/
- 1
The keeper of a personal journal, who writes in it regularly.
- 2
One whose occupation is journalism, originally only writing in the printed press.
- “There’s this terrible business to start with. Scotland Yard men in and out of the house like a jack-in-the-box! Never know where they won’t turn up next. Screaming headlines in every paper in the country—damn all journalists, I say!”
- 3
A reporter, someone who professionally reports on news and current events.
- British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.
- A staff member of the Kuchar County Judiciary told RFA that he did not have the authority “to answer political questions of this magnitude,” when asked whether 150 people had died in No. 1 Camp, and whether the number included any government officials or other employees. “We have a county-wide directive—firstly, to never provide answers to pretend journalists, and secondly, to never take phone calls of unknown origin,” he said.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。