| 单词 | correspondent |
| 释义 | correspondent (once / 288 pages) 1n 2adj 3n A correspondent is a reporter who writes or records stories on one topic or from one region. If you're hired as a radio station's financial correspondent, you'll need to do a lot of research on the economy. A journalist might work as a TV station's Middle East correspondent or a newspaper's education correspondent. You can also call yourself a correspondent if you're a regular letter or email writer, corresponding, or communicating, with someone. As an adjective, though, correspondent means "matching or agreeing." The word is rooted in the Medieval Latin correspondere, "to answer together." WORD FAMILYcorrespondent: correspondently, correspondents+/correspond: corresponded, correspondence, correspondent, corresponding, corresponds/correspondence: correspondences/corresponding: correspondingly USAGE EXAMPLES“So it’s rigged if Hillary wins, but it’s not rigged if Trump’s winning?” correspondent Allana Harkin asked a Trump voter. Salon(Dec 31, 2016) In England, Evelyn Waugh’s novel “Scoop” told of a hapless foreign correspondent who accidentally breaks a big story. Wall Street Journal(Dec 28, 2016) Discussions erupted over the clothing choices of seemingly every public woman, including candidates, candidates’ spouses and news correspondents. Wall Street Journal(Dec 28, 2016) 1 n a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newswriter, pressman foreign correspondent a journalist who sends news reports and commentary from a foreign country for publication or broadcast war correspondenta journalist who sends news reports and commentary from a combat zone or place of battle for publication or broadcast journalist a writer for newspapers and magazines adj similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar 3Syn analogous similar marked by correspondence or resemblance n someone who communicates by means of letters Syn|Hypo|Hyper letter writer pen pal, pen-friend a person you come to know by frequent friendly correspondence communicator a person who communicates with others |
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