单词columnist
n.: 专栏作家
网络: 专栏记者；名家专栏；报刊专栏作家
专栏作家:
a journalist who writes regular articles for a newspaper or magazine
专栏作者
〔美国〕(报纸的)专栏作家
复数：columnists
n.writerjournalistcorrespondentcontributoressayist
"They never thought it would happen, " wrote one Boston Globe columnist. "Half of Washington is in a state of shock. "
一位波士顿全球报的记者写道“人们绝对没有想到会发生这样的事，华盛顿半数的人都惊呆了”。
So said Paul Krugman, the Princeton economics professor and New York Times columnist, long before he took up journalism.
远在投身新闻业之前，普林斯顿经济学教授兼《纽约时报》（NewYorkTimes）专栏作家保罗-克鲁格曼（PaulKrugman）就说过这样的话。
I have done a bit of writing, writing as a columnist for newspapers.
我写过一些东西，给报纸当专栏作家。
But these days, sitting in the sun makes me feel guilty as well. A health columnist with a tan? Shameful.
但这些天来，坐在阳光下也让我感到惭愧。身为健康专栏作家，皮肤却晒成古铜色？真丢脸。
I ask David, who seemed to have nothing but respect for the columnist, agreeing that America remains sexually repressed.
对于这位专栏作家，大卫怀揣着一百万个敬重。我同意如今的美国人在性方面表现得依然很压抑。
For just a few minutes of your day, you can help a columnist get on the straight-and-narrow with his editors, who are a mean and surly lot.
只需几分钟，您就可以帮助一位专栏作家直接、正面地与他的编辑沟通，他们是一群凶狠且脾气坏的人。
The columnist Robert Samuelson tells the story in his book, just out in paperback, The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath.
专栏评论人罗伯特.萨缪尔森在他的书里讲述了这个故事，就是那本简装本的书，名为《恶性通货膨胀及其后果》。
"You and I can be our own lexicographers now, " says Barbara Wallraff, the longtime language columnist for The Atlantic magazine.
《大西洋月刊》（TheAtlantic）杂志资深语言专栏作家沃拉夫（BarbaraWallraff）说，你和我现在都可以成为自己的字典编纂者了。
"Language is always developing, " said a columnist, Wang Pei. "It needs to be updated to absorb foreign culture and folk wisdom. "
专栏作家王培说：“语言一直在进步，它需要吸收外来文化和民间智慧来得到更新。”
The usual columnist"s device at this point is to criticize both views, and segue to a wise alternative.
在这种情况下，专栏作者一般采用的花招是对两种观点各打五十大板，然后过渡到另外一个明智的想法。