early 15c., "one who makes bow-strings," agent noun from string (v.). Meaning "newspaper correspondent paid by length of copy" is from 1950, probably from earlier figurative sense of "one who strings words together" (1774).
雙語(yǔ)例句
1. He picked up extra money as a local stringer for the New York Herald.
他做《紐約先驅(qū)報(bào)》的當(dāng)?shù)靥丶s記者來(lái)賺些外快。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
2. Stringer webs have cracked in suspension bridges at the stringer - floor bean connections.
在懸索橋的縱梁和橫的連接處,縱梁的腹板上發(fā)生開裂.
來(lái)自辭典例句
3. Stringer disagrees, however . " Evolution goes on all the time . You don't have to intervene.