单词 | leading article |
释义 | leading article 1. One of the longer large-type articles in a newspaper, appearing as the expression of editorial opinion on any subject; a leader.
1807Politics Georgium Sidus 29 The Morning Newspapers of the metropolis..in their solemn political paragraphs, and especially in those which are called their leading articles. 1812Examiner 25 May 333/2 Your leading article of last Sunday. 1868M. Pattison Academ. Org. v. 295 In the schools of Oxford is now taught in perfection the art of writing ‘leading articles’. 2. Comm. a. A principal or prominent article of trade. b. In recent use, an article which is ‘pushed’ and sold at a low price in order to attract customers for other things. Cf. leader 8 b.
1818Jas. Mill Brit. India II. iv. v. 163 A leading article in the European traffic was the salt-petre produced in Bengal. 1877W. S. Gilbert Sorcerer i. 15 Sir, it is our leading article. |

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