actor

英 [ˈæktə(r)]

美 [ˈæktər]

n.  演员

复数：actors　

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牛津词典

noun

• 演员
  a person who performs on the stage, on television or in films/movies, especially as a profession

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 演员（单数形式的actor通常指男演员，但有些女演员喜欢被称为actor而不是actress)
  Anactoris someone whose job is acting in plays or films. 'Actor' in the singular usually refers to a man, but some women who act prefer to be called 'actors' rather than 'actresses'.
  1. His father was an actor in the Cantonese Opera Company...
     他的父亲是粤剧团的演员。
  2. You have to be a very good actor to play that part.
     要想演那个角色，你必须是个非常出色的演员。

英英释义

noun

• a theatrical performer
  Synonym:histrionplayerthespianrole player
• a person who acts and gets things done
  1. he's a principal actor in this affair
  2. when you want something done get a doer
  3. he's a miracle worker
  Synonym:doerworker

双语例句

• This fall she co-stars in a film with the acclaimed British actor Kenneth Branagh
  今秋她和广受欢迎的英国演员肯尼思·布拉纳联袂主演了一部电影。
• It's a great movie and it features a Spanish actor who is going to be a world star within a year
  这是一部精彩的影片，主演是一位西班牙演员，他不出一年就会成为国际巨星。
• Grodin is a fine comic actor.
  格罗丁是一位优秀的喜剧演员。
• Like any actor he can be self-centred but I think I've worked out how to deflate him
  跟其他演员一样，他有时也会以自我为中心，但我想自己已经找到了如何挫他锐气的办法。
• The child actor's press agent says: 'He does not talk to the press on such matters.'
  这位童星的新闻发言人说：“他不会就这些事情向媒体发表观点。”
• We had to have an actor who could generate real empathy. Plus he had to carry the audience through a lot of plot.
  我们得找一名能真正入戏的男演员，而且他还得能让观众跟上复杂的剧情中。
• The actor Patrick Stewart is a long-time baldy and proud of it
  演员帕特里克·斯图尔特早就秃头了，为此他还很得意。
• She now lives with actor Denis Lawson, 10 years her junior.
  她现在与比她小10岁的演员丹尼斯·劳森同居。
• It was an actor whose name escapes me for the moment
  那个男演员的名字我一时想不起来了。
• Actor John Goodman played Melanie Griffith's sugar daddy in the film.
  影片中约翰·古德曼饰演梅兰尼·格利菲斯的甜爹。