词组 | careful writer |
释义 | careful writer The careful writer is a fiction often invoked by usage commentators. Conveniently, the careful writer follows whatever precept the commentator is laying down at the moment. The example below is the only one we have in which the epithet is applied to an actual person: • In a famous dictum by Nero Wolfe, that careful writer Rex Stout disallowed contact as an all-purpose verb —Barzun 1985 When you meet the careful writer in usage books, you should be careful to distinguish him from the good writer. |
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