commentator

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈkɒmənˌteɪtə/    美 /ˈkɑmənˌteɪtəɹ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who makes a commentary, particularly; Synonym of historian or chronicler, a person who compiles an annotated history. obsolete,rare
  2. A person who makes a commentary, particularly; A person who compiles explanations and critical notes on a text.
  3. A person who makes a commentary, particularly; A person who compiles explanations of the law, particularly (historical) comparatively innovative European jurists in the 14th century, as opposed to earlier glossators.
    — It would be well into the fourteenth century before the commentators came into their own.
  4. A person who makes a commentary, particularly; A person who compiles explanations of biblical passages.
  5. A person who makes a commentary, particularly; A person who provides an instantaneous description of a public event, particularly a sporting event, for a mass media audience.
    — He was a commentator for football two years before retiring.
  6. A person who makes a commentary, particularly; A person who provides analysis or opinion on current events, especially for a mass media audience.
    — Specifically, and unforgivably, she restarted the Heathrow Third Runway bandwagon, which had been stalled for more than a decade and even declared dead by most commentators.

词形变化

commentators plural commentatour alternative

词汇关系

近义词
interpreter
衍生词
cocommentator color commentator commentate commentator's curse commentatorship commentatress subcommentator supercommentator
相关词
commentary

词源

In form, from Middle English commentator, from Latin commentātor (“author, inventor, interpreter, jailer”), from commentātus + -or (“-er: forming agent nouns”), from commentāri (“to ponder, to study, to write upon”), from comminīscor (“to think over, to invent”) + -tārī (“to frequently be ~ed”). In meaning, influenced by comment and commentary. By surface analysis, comment + -ator.
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