| 词组 | present writer |
| 释义 | present writer The present writer is a convention by which a reporter, reviewer, or author can put in personal observations or opinions without using the pronoun I. Copperud 1970, 1980, Bremner 1980, and Nickles 1974 express mild disapproval, but this is an innocuous convention. • It once fell to the lot of the present writer to have an extended conversation with a noted female author who had very decided opinions as to the character of the sex to which he had the fortune or misfortune to belong —Lounsbury 1908 • The present writer once suggested to him ... —F. Scott Fitzgerald, in New Republic, 22 Nov. 1954 • The present writer too has wept over these —Virgil Thomson, American Music Since 1910, 1971 • At last, the present writer, asked to say how he would go about it,... —Frederic G. Cassidy, Introduction to Dictionary of American Regional English, 1985 Such combinations as present reviewer, present author, and present commentator are also occasionally used. |
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