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correspondent

noun
 
🔊/ˌkɒrəˈspɒndənt/
🔊/ˌkɔːrəˈspɑːndənt/
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  1.  
    a person who reports news from a particular country or on a particular subject for a newspaper or a television or radio station记者；通讯员
    • She's the BBC's political correspondent.她是英国广播公司的政治新闻记者。
    • a foreign/war/sports correspondent外国/战争/体育记者
    • our Delhi correspondent我们驻德里的通讯员
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    • a correspondent for a Canadian newspaper加拿大一家报纸的记者
    • Now, a report from our Hong Kong correspondent.接下来是我们驻香港记者的报道。
    Topics Literature and writingc1, TV, radio and newsc1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • network
    • news
    • newspaper
    • …
    correspondent + verb
    • cover something
    • report (something)
    • write (something)
    • …
    preposition
    • correspondent for
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  2.  
    (used with an adjective与形容词连用) a person who writes letters, emails, etc. to another person通信者
    • She's a poor correspondent (= she does not write regularly).她是个懒于写信的人。🔊🔊
    • He was a vivid and witty correspondent.他是一位生动而机智的通讯员。
    3. Word Originlate Middle English (as an adjective): from Old French correspondant or medieval Latin correspondent- ‘corresponding’, from the verb correspondere, from cor- ‘together’ + Latin respondere, from re- ‘again’ + spondere ‘to pledge’.