寫東西的人
兩個意思都是「做『寫』這動作的人」，差別只在把不把它當一份職業。一頭是專門靠寫作維生的人，一頭是「不管是誰，只要寫了這樣東西」的那個人。
author · noun · B1
Someone who works at writing books, stories, or articles, often for a living.
作家
核心畫面
You can picture a 'writer' simply as the person putting words on the page. 'Writer' is 'write' plus '-er' — the one who does the writing. From there it splits between the person who for a living and, more loosely, whoever wrote a particular thing.
可以想成：writer 就是「把字寫到紙上的那個人」。writer 是 write（寫）加上 -er——做「寫」這個…更多收起
可以想成：writer 就是「把字寫到紙上的那個人」。writer 是 write（寫）加上 -er——做「寫」這個動作的人。從這裡分成兩支：一支是以寫作為業的人，一支比較鬆，指「寫了某樣東西的那個人」。One branch
原始詞典資料9 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。
Writername
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A surname originating as an occupation.
writernoun/ˈɹaɪ.tə(ɹ)/
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A person who writes, or produces literary work; an author can refer to themselves as "the writer".
- Has your girlfriend written you another letter already? She’s quite a writer!
- I met some of my favourite authors at the writers' convention.
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Anything that writes or produces output.
- If the writer is set to autoflush mode, then all characters in the buffer are sent to their destination whenever println is called.
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A machine or tool used for writing, often by chording keys on a specialized keyboard (e.g. braillewriter, microwriter, stenograph).
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businessfinanceThe seller of an option.
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historicalA clerk of a certain rank in the service of the East India Company, who, after serving a certain number of years, became a factor.
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An ordinary legal practitioner in Scottish country towns.
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A petty officer in the United States navy who keeps the watch-muster and other books of the ship.
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slangA graffiti artist.
- Writers were reunited with their crews, none having seen each other since back in the day, since they'd spun from teenage affiliations into lives more burdened and serious.
- Two aspects of style co-exist in graffiti art, as explained in chapter 2. There is a writer's personal style, and there is iconic style, or style as convention.
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。