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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary

actor ['æktər]
  1. 1. noun [c] 演员

Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary

actor [ˈæktər]
  1. 1. n.[c] 演员
    Actors perform in stage, radio, television, video, or motion picture productions
    演员出现舞台广播电视、录像动画作品中。
  2. 2. n.[c] 参与者,行动者
    My manager was the principal actor in getting the company to change.
    我的经理推动公司改革主要人物
    He's a principal actor in this affair.
    他是这次事件主要参与者

Collins English-English Dictionary

actor ['æktə]
  1. 1. n a person who acts in a play, film, broadcast, etc
  2. 2. n [Spoken] a person who puts on a false manner in order to deceive others (often in the phrase bad actor)
  3. 3. n [Usage] The term actor is almost universally used nowadays to refer to people of either gender who act

Examples

an actor by birth
一个天生的演员
a coming young actor
有望成名的年轻演员
to hoot an actor off the stage
把一个演员轰下台
A writer turned actor.
作家变为演员。
I would like to become a good actor, that's why I'm studying so hard.
我想成为一名好演员,这就是我努力学习的原因。

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