- 1理論家、理論學者。注意固定說法「陰謀論者」（conspiracy theorist）帶明顯負面語氣，跟中性的「理論家」不同。
A theorist is someone whose work is building explanations — the person in a field who asks why things happen the way they do and puts forward a system of ideas to account for it. You meet the word with the subject in front of it: a political theorist, a literary theorist, a music theorist, a conspiracy theorist. In science, 'theorist' is a real job description and marks a division of labour: the theorists work with mathematics and models at a desk, while the experimenters test those models in a laboratory, and a physics department will contain both. Elsewhere the word can carry a light sting, especially when it stands against 'practitioner': calling someone 'more of a theorist' can hint that their ideas are elegant but have never had to survive contact with the real world. Whether it stings depends entirely on the sentence around it. One fixed phrase to know on its own: 'conspiracy theorist' is not neutral at all — it means someone who believes secret groups are behind events, and it is nearly always said with . Countable: a theorist, many theorists.
From the word’s history
From theory + -ist.
theory「理論」＋-ist「…的人」。
組成theory + -ist, the ending for a person who does or believes in something (as in 'artist', 'scientist', 'novelist'). 'Theory' itself goes back through French and Latin to Greek 'theoria', a looking-at or contemplation, from 'theoros', a spectator.
同家族的字
- theorythe base word: the ideas the theorist works on
- theorizethe verb from the same base: to do what a theorist does
- theoreticalthe adjective: to do with theory rather than practice
- scientistsame '-ist' ending marking the person
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
theoristnoun/ˈθɪəɹɪst/
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Someone who constructs theories, especially in the arts or sciences.
- The works of Wilhelm Weitling (1808-71) stand out amid the communist utopias of the 1840s not because he was in any sense a forerunner of Marx, but because he was himself a member of the working class and therefore a better exponent of its attitude at the time than were theorists belonging to the privileged classes.
- Some of the most beautiful and thus appealing physical theories, including quantum electrodynamics and quantum gravity, have been dogged for decades by infinities that erupt when theorists try to prod their calculations into new domains.
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