commentator是什么意思

n. 评论员，解说员；实况播音员；时事评论者

英文词源

commentator (n.): late 14c., "writer of commentaries," agent noun in Latin form from comment or commentary (Latin commentator meant "inventor, author"). Middle English also had a noun commentate, attested from early 15c. Meaning "writer of notes or expository comments" is from 1640s; sense of "one who gives commentary" (originally in sports) is from 1928.
"Well, Jem, what is a commentator?["]--"Why," was Jem's reply, "I suppose it must be the commonest of all taturs." ["Smart Sayings of Bright Children," collected by Howard Paul, 1886]

2. They're so lacking in confidence in the attraction of the games they televise that they feel they have to hype up with some hysterical commentator in order to get anyone to watch them.: 他们对于用电视播映比赛的吸引力太缺乏信心,以至于他们感到必须要用一个说得天花乱坠的讲解员来做实况广播,以便招揽观众.

3. Virtually every serious commentator agrees that major reform within Third World education is long overdue.: 事实上,任何认真的评论家都认为第三世界的教育早就应该实行重大的改革了.

4. The fifth - century commentator Proclus was very explicit about his objection to the parallel axiom.: 第五世纪评论家Proclus非常明显地反对平行公理.

5. He is a good commentator because he can get across the game.: 他能简单地解说这场比赛,是个好的解说者.