单词 | rewrite desk |
释义 | > as lemmasrewrite desk a. General attributive, as rewrite desk, rewrite person, rewrite story, etc. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > [adjective] > of or relating to the revising of a text rewrite1901 1901 Munsey's Mag. Nov. 222/1 Much of the copy that reaches the big newspaper offices is passed over to the ‘rewrite man’. 1912 G. M. Hyde Newspaper Reporting ix. 125 The terms ‘rewrite story’ and ‘follow-up, or follow, story’, are names which newspaper men apply to the rehashed or revised versions of other news stories. 1935 Amer. Mercury July 379/2 I have yet to discover an instance of real literary talent being brought to the surface by back-breaking chores on the rewrite desk. 1949 ‘G. Orwell’ Nineteen Eighty-four ii. iii. 131 She could describe the whole process of composing a novel, from the general directive issued by the Planning Committee down to the final touching-up by the Rewrite Squad. 1955 H. Roth Sleeper xv. 126 She seemed..capable, especially of rewrite, and good rewrite people are hard to find. 1975 M. Ivins in Atlantic Monthly Mar. 50/2 The voters had agreed that the state's 100-year-old barnacle-encrusted constitution..needed a rewrite job. 1986 E. E. Scharff Worldly Power x. 179 Giles had ‘punched his ticket’ at all the right stops within the Journal—first writing the page-one news capsules, as Phillips had done, next enjoining the esteemed front-page rewrite team. 2004 C. Cobb Ego & Ink xxiii. 318 Reporters received calls from Post editors and ‘rewrite’ people—reporters employed to retool wire stories in Post style. < as lemmas |
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