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novelist

/nov-uh-list/US // ˈnɒv ə lɪst //UK // (ˈnɒvəlɪst) //

小说家,小說家,新作,创作人

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who writes novels.

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Examples

  • The first thing to know about David Duchovny the novelist is that he’s serious about being David Duchovny the novelist.

  • He studied film, become an avid gamer and was an aspiring graphic novelist.

  • I now think that what I was really moving toward was the use of scientific research to answer some of the questions raised by the novelists I’d read as a younger person.

  • With the skill of a novelist, she illuminates Rich’s life from her birth in Baltimore in 1929 to her death in Santa Cruz, Calif, in 2012.

  • Absent any satisfying explanation of why the country is Krak’d out, we turned to the “prince of paleo-fiction,” a novelist named Max Hawthorne, who wrote a trilogy of Kraken-centric books.

  • A young novelist dies, the American military is betrayed and James Patterson is profiled.

  • “You have to be slightly innocent to be a novelist,” Martin Amis has observed.

  • Mailer would argue, for example, that timidity does more harm to the novelist than donning a mask of extreme self-confidence.

  • She is a novelist and former journalist who has reported from Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Russia.

  • Like any good suspense novelist, Shields is a master of evasion and sleight-of-hand.

  • Richard Cumberland died; eminent as a British poet, essayist, novelist and dramatic writer.

  • Near at hand is the home where Anthony Trollope, the novelist, lived for many years, and his sister is buried in the churchyard.

  • "That is exactly my object in asking you to meet me here, Enid," said the novelist, his countenance still thoughtful and serious.

  • One wonders why the great novelist and preacher spent so many years of his life here.

  • "I hardly know," was the novelist's reply, as in a navy serge suit he leaned near the window which overlooked the Thames.