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经常看英文报纸的同学可能会注意到，在报纸的Editorial（社论）版对面一般都是一个叫做Op-ed的版面，上面刊登的都是一些评论性的文章，而写这些文章的人似乎也不是该报社的员工。那么这个Op-ed具体指什么呢？今天我们就来简单介绍一下。 An op-ed, abbreviated from opposite the editorial page, is a newspaper article that expresses the opinions of a named writer who is usually unaffiliated with the newspaper's editorial board. These are different from editorials (which are usually unsigned and written by editorial board members) and letters to the editor (which are submitted by readers of the journal or newspaper). Op-ed其实是opposite the editorial page（社论版对面）的缩写，指发表在报纸上、由非本报评论部员工撰写的署名评论文章，与社论（由本报评论部员工撰写的非署名评论文章）和读者来信（期刊或报纸读者提交的文章）均有不同。 Although standard editorial pages have been printed by newspapers for many centuries, the direct ancestor to the modern op-ed page was created in 1921 by Herbert Bayard Swope of The New York Evening World. When he took over as editor in 1920, he realized that the page opposite the editorials was "a catchall for book reviews, society boilerplate, and obituaries". He is quoted as writing: “It occurred to me that nothing is more interesting than opinion when opinion is interesting, so I devised a method of cleaning off the page opposite the editorial, which became the most important in America ... and thereon I decided to print opinions, ignoring facts.” | 
