单词 | guardian |
释义 | guardianguard‧i‧an /ˈɡɑːdiən $ ˈɡɑːr-/ ●○○ noun [countable] Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorto look after a child who is not your own for a long time► adopt Collocations to legally and permanently take someone else's child into your family and treat them as one of your own children: · Chinese babies are the favorite choice of Americans adopting children from abroad.· She had hoped to get pregnant, but when she failed, she and her husband decided to adopt.· He discovered that his guardian, Aunt Mimi, had not legally adopted him.· Teenagers who discover they were adopted often search for their biological parents when they are old enough. ► foster to take another person's child into your own family and look after them for a period of several weeks, months, or years, but without becoming their legal parent: · Fostering a teenager is obviously different from fostering a small child.· During my mother's long illness I was fostered by a middle-aged couple on the other side of town. ► guardian a person who has been legally appointed to look after a child whose parents are away or dead, or to look after someone who is too ill to be responsible for themselves: · The court must obtain the consent of the child's parent or guardian.· Children under 17 will only be admitted in the company of a parent or adult guardian.· Could you contact Mrs Smith's guardians and tell them she's been admitted to hospital?legal guardian: · When Sara was 7, Aunt Maggie became her legal guardian. ► in care British a child who is in care does not live with his or her parents but is looked after in a special home paid for by the local council, for example because their own parents are dead or could not look after them properly: · Many youngsters who've been brought up in care are often incapable of looking after themselves.· The number of children in care in Oxfordshire is falling. someone whose job is to protect a person or place► guard someone whose job is to watch a place, person, or valuable object, in order to protect them or stop them escaping: · Guards at the embassy refused to let journalists enter.security guard (=someone whose job is to guard a building): · Two men overpowered the security guard and stole $20,000.armed guard (=one with a gun): · The captain put armed guards all around the camp. ► bodyguard a person or group of people whose job is to protect someone important: · The President arrived, surrounded by bodyguards.· a member of the Emperor's bodyguard ► defender/guardian a person or organization that protects, or appears to protect, someone or something that people think is important or morally right: · The group, known as the Defenders of Wildlife, have sued to protect the Louisiana black bear.· The film was banned as a result of protests by the Viewers Association and other so-called guardians of public morality. ► minder British informal someone employed by a rich or famous person to protect him or her: · Kylie will often shop in Kensington without her minders, dressed in dark glasses for anonymity. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY► legal guardian 1someone who is legally responsible for looking after someone else’s child, especially after the child’s parents have diedsomebody’s guardian His aunt is his legal guardian.2formal someone who guards or protects somethingguardian of The US sees itself as the guardian of democracy. His aunt is his legal guardian. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► adult· R: Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. ► legal· So Anna became my legal guardian.· But I wish to leave the control of the estate in your hands as sort of legal guardians.· His aunt is his legal guardian.· A senile old person might also be assigned a legal guardian. NOUN► ad· Where a guardian ad litem is not appointed initially there is power to appoint at any subsequent stage in the proceedings.· Karen Davies, solicitor, for the guardian ad litem.· In practice, social work records where relevant are likely to be introduced into the proceedings via the guardian ad litem.· A guardian ad litem appointed in emergency protection proceedings will usually continue to act in any care proceedings which follow.· William Helfrecht for the guardian ad litem.· Meanwhile, the guardian ad litem appointed on behalf of the children was preparing her report.· The fourth defendant, T., who was unconscious, was represented by the Official Solicitor as guardian ad litem.· Very often a guardian ad litem will be appointed before the directions appointment so that he may attend. ► angel· The knowledge of an empiricist's guardian angel would presumably be neither embodied nor built in.· He is to be congratulated on his excellent choice of guardian angels.· The soul was accessible to the gaze of your guardian angel.· Perhaps you have a guardian angel.· You're his guardian angel - the one person keeping me away from him.· George was Lennie's guardian angel.· Ever watchful - my guardian angel. VERB► accompany· R: Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. ► act· They act as guardians of the public purse when dealing with members of spending departments who seek additional resources.· A serving probation officer employed full-time in that capacity can not act as a guardian ad litem.· Therefore a new agency, the Fair Trade Commission, was established to act as an independent guardian of market competition. ► appoint· Section 41 imposes a duty on the court to appoint a guardian ad litem in most public law proceedings under the Act.· Where the court has appointed a solicitor the guardian ad litem may apply for termination of his appointment.· You can appoint one or two guardians.· James appointed new guardians with wider powers on each side of the Border, and troops were moved north.· It is particularly important therefore to appoint a guardian. ► become· So Anna became my legal guardian.· Even at ten, I knew that I had become the guardian of her life and she the tenuous sleeper. |
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