Word · Frequency #11989
biographer
传记作者
someone who writes an account of a person's life
- 1.
The writer of a biography; a professional writer of biographies.
传记作者；专业的传记作家。
传记作者；专业的传记作家。
In use
A good biographer must present both achievements and failures.
She hired a biographer to write her uncle's story.
Biographers spend years checking facts before publishing a life story.
the biographer of sb
用 of 结构时，强调所写传记的对象；也可说 someone's biographer。
She is the biographer of the famous scientist.
她是那位著名科学家的传记作者。
sb's biographer
所有格形式更常用，尤其指已出版的传记。
His biographer spent ten years researching his diaries.
他的传记作者花了十年时间研究他的日记。
as a biographer
该结构用来描述某人作为传记作者的身份、能力或态度。
As a biographer, she is careful to separate facts from opinions.
作为传记作者，她谨慎地把事实与观点区分开。
Common mistakes
He is a famous biography.He is a famous biographer.
biography 指传记作品本身，biographer 才指写传记的人；要表达“他是著名的传记作者”，必须用指人的名词 biographer。
He is biographer.He is a biographer.
biographer 是可数名词单数，前面需要加不定冠词 a；汉语没有冠词，容易漏掉，但英语中表示职业的单数可数名词不能单独使用。
He is a biographer for Lu Xun.He is a biographer of Lu Xun.
表示所写传记的对象时，biographer 后用介词 of（a biographer of sb），for 会让人误解为“为某人工作”，属于介词搭配错误。
Connections
Collocations
- official biographer
- 官方传记作者
- He was appointed the official biographer of the former president.他被任命为前总统的官方传记作者。
- authorized biographer
- 授权传记作者
- She is the authorized biographer of the novelist.她是这位小说家的授权传记作者。
- biographer of someone
- 某人的传记作者
- As a biographer of the scientist, she had access to all his papers.作为这位科学家的传记作者，她可以查阅他的所有文件。
- noted biographer
- 著名传记作者
- A noted biographer, he has written about many artists.作为著名传记作者，他写过许多艺术家的传记。
- biographer's subject
- 传记作者的传主
- The biographer's subject was a reclusive poet.这位传记作者的传主是一位隐居的诗人。
Learner notes
Memory Tip
把 bio 想成‘生命’，把 grapher 想成‘写的人’，记别人生命故事的人就是传记作者。
Context & Register
语域：neutral 常见场景：传记文学、学术讨论、新闻报道 该词属于中性书面词汇，通常用于传记文学、学术讨论或新闻中对作者身份的说明；日常口语中直接说‘作者’或以人名指代更为常见。
Pronunciation & Spelling
These words share the stressed ending /ɒɡrəfə/: photographer, geographer, choreographer, cartographer, and stenographer all rhyme with biographer. Beware the lookalike biography /baɪˈɒɡrəfi/, which ends in /i/ and does not rhyme.
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 1，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
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