statesman和politician的区别如下：
statesman为褒义，politician为贬义。
politician, statesman 这两个名词均可表示“政治家”之意。 politician 指有才能的职业政治家或政坛人物。在美国英语中，多含贬义，特指玩弄阴谋、勾心斗角以谋以私利的政客、政治骗子。
statesman与politician相反，常用于褒义，指有远见，为国为民的正派的政治家，既着重才能，又侧重身居要职。
扩展资料：
statesman
英 ['steɪtsmən]美 ['stetsmən]
复数：statesmen
同义词：
respected leader； policy-maker； experienced politician
n.
1. ( respected leader ) 政治家
2. ( policy-maker ) 对政策制定有影响的人（如内阁成员）
3. ( experienced politician ) 经验丰富的政治家；政客
双语例句
1、Hamilton is a great statesman and political thinker.
汉密尔顿是个伟大的政治家和政治思想家。
2、He has written eight books and has cultivated the image of an elder statesman
他已经写了8本书，树立起了其政界元老的形象。
3、She then wrote an extremely irate letter to the New Statesman about me.
她接着给《新政治家》杂志写了一封关于我的信，言辞极其激烈。
4、He has cultivated the image of an elder statesman
他已树立起一个政界元老的形象。
5、He was in his late eighties and had become the country's most respected elder statesman.
他年近九旬，已成为该国最受尊崇的政界元老。
politician
英 [pɒlɪ'tɪʃ(ə)n]美 [,pɑlə'tɪʃən]
n. 政治家，政客
1. ( professional ) 专门从事政治活动的人；政治人物；政治家；政客
They have arrested a number of leading opposition politicians.
他们已经逮捕了数名反对党领袖。
2. ( skilled specialist ) 政治学家；政治专家
He's the greatest politician of his generation.
他是他那一代人中最伟大的政治学家。
3. < 美，贬 > ( for personal gain ) 为捞取私利而从事政治活动的人；政客
She detested money-grubbing industrialists and politicians.
她痛恨那些唯利是图的实业家和政客。
双语例句：
1、They have arrested a number of leading opposition politicians.
他们已经逮捕了数名反对党领袖。
2、Nobody that I spoke to doubted his sincerity as a politician.
和我谈过话的人中没有一个怀疑他作为一个政治家的诚意。
3、She was a fiery, brilliant and unyielding intellectual and politician
她是个充满激情、才华卓越、毫不妥协的知识分子和政治家。
4、Haig and Robertson saw it as the lunatic ravings of a mad politician.
黑格和罗伯逊把它看作是一个疯癫政治家的胡言乱语。
5、He's a nice old rascal but a disaster area as a politician.
他是个不错的老家伙，但是作为一个政治家就太差劲了。
参考资料来源：百度翻译：statesman
参考资料来源：百度翻译：politician