a person who studies or writes about history; an expert in history Some speakers do not pronounce the ‘h’ at the beginning of historian and use ‘an’ instead of ‘a’ before it. This now sounds old-fashioned.史學工作者;歷史學家 No serious historian today accepts this theory. 當今任何一位嚴肅的史學家都不會接受這種理論。 Revisionist historians have questioned the accepted version of events. 修正主義歷史學家對這些事件公認的說法提出了質疑。 She is a writer as well as a distinguished modern historian. 她不但是著名的現代史學家,還是位作家。 The oldest tradition goes back to the contemporary historian John Foxe. 最古老的傳統可以追溯到當代史學家約翰・福克斯。 What will future historians make of the late 20th century? 未來的歷史學家將會如何看待 20 世紀晚期 ? a talk given by an eminent social historian 一位傑出的社會歷史學家所作的報告 the official historian of the Labour Party 工黨的史學家 the official historian of the United States Army 美國陸軍的官方史學家
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- distinguished
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Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French historien, via Latin from Greek historia ‘finding out, narrative, history’, from histōr ‘learned, wise man’, from an Indo-European root shared by wit ‘have knowledge’.