politician

柯林斯詞典

1. N-COUNT A politician is a person whose job is in politics, especially a member of the government. 政客 (尤指政府成員); 政治家
They have arrested a number of leading opposition politicians. 他們已經(jīng)逮捕了一些主要的反對(duì)黨政治家。

She believed her job as a politician was to represent the views of her party and the people who voted for her.
Several politicians were accused of dispensing favours to people who voted for them.
The media focus on politicians' private lives inevitably switches the attention away from the real issues .
McCarthyism is named after the American politician Joseph McCarthy, who in the 1950s accused many Americans of being Communists.
He was an effective enough politician, but he had no ambition to become party leader .