1 the person who is in charge of all or part of a newspaper, magazine, etc and who decides what should be included (报刊的)主编,编辑:
the financial editor金融栏编辑Who is the editor of ‘The Times’?谁是《泰晤士报》的主编?
2 a person whose job is to prepare a book to be published by checking for mistakes and correcting the text (书的)编者,校订者
3 a person whose job is to prepare a film, television programme, etc for showing to the public by cutting and putting the filmed material in the correct order (电视或电台节目等的)剪辑者,编辑
editor/ˋɛdItɚ; ˈedətə or ˈedItə/n [C] the person who decides what should be included in a book, newspaper, magazine etc, and checks for mistakes〔书﹑报纸﹑杂志等的〕主编﹔编辑see box at见 NEWSPAPER 方框 —editorial /͵ɛdəˋtɔrIəl; ˌedəˈtɔːriəl or ˌedIˈtɔːriəl/adj : They made a few editorial changes. 他们作了一些编辑上的修改。