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单词 guide
释义

guide

/ɡʌɪd /
noun
1A person who shows the way to others, especially one employed to show tourists around places of interest: a tour guide...
  • This has involved, for example, investigating the communicative tasks in Japanese facing Australian tour guides working with Japanese tourists.
  • The same practice of self-protection is evoked in locations where tour guides take tourists from Hong Kong and China to unsavoury haunts which arrange live sex shows.
  • I'd like to go back, and I'd like the place to myself for a few minutes, alone, without the braying tour guides and murmuring tourists.

Synonyms

escort, attendant, conductor, courier, pilot, usher, chaperone
rare cicerone, convoy
1.1A professional mountain climber in charge of a group.Why do professional mountain guides always look lean, cut, and as if they could jog to the summit without breaking a sweat?...
  • Sunil and Mohanto had worked as professional river and mountain guides at Rishikesh.
  • Fat-tired planes buzz the nearby airport, taking climbers, guides, and gear to mountain base camps.
2A person who advises others, especially in matters of behaviour or belief: his spiritual guide...
  • So the Evangelical pastors often served as counselors, spiritual guides and confidantes.
  • She said their knowledge comes from the ‘Dreamtime’, their spiritual guide which teaches them how to hunt, the different skills they need and where to get food.
  • The former includes meditations on the precious human existence, impermanence, the defects of sasra, the workings of karma and the need for a spiritual guide or guru.

Synonyms

adviser, mentor, counsellor, guidance counsellor;
confidant, tutor, teacher, guru, consultant;
therapist
informal main man
2.1A thing that helps someone to form an opinion or make a decision or calculation: your resting pulse rate is a rough guide to your general physical condition...
  • I recognise that Letters to the Editor are not necessarily an infallible guide to public opinion.
  • Like sonata form it is not a rigid formula, and therefore the scheme illustrated can be taken as only a rough guide to its general features.
  • Third, we may interpret choice theory as an exploration of what it means to be rational and, possibly, as a guide to making sensible decisions, rather than as a description of how people act in practice.

Synonyms

model, pattern, blueprint, template, archetype, prototype, sample, example, exemplar;
standard, touchstone, measure, benchmark, yardstick, gauge, norm, paradigm, ideal, precedent, guiding principle
2.2A book, document, or display providing information on a subject or about a place: a comprehensive guide to British hotels and restaurants...
  • Solicitors recognise that many buyers are baffled by a lack of clear and comprehensive information and guides to talk them through the procedure.
  • She equipped herself with a little optimism, phrase books and travel guides, and clothes contained for overhead storage space.
  • Dictionaries range from language guides to handbooks of information arranged alphabetically on a range of topics.

Synonyms

guidebook, tourist guide, travel guide, Baedeker, travelogue, directory, handbook, manual, ABC, A to Z;
Latin vade mecum
rare enchiridion
3A structure or marking which directs the motion or positioning of something: the guides for the bolt needed straightening...
  • Find a large, clean surface with room to lay out a rag, your tools and the removed wheels and bolts, axle guides, and heel brake where they'll stay put and in sight.
  • The wire guide directs the paper into a drive roller and idler set which pulls the paper from the printer and drives the paper downward so that it drops at about the center of the stack.
  • On the other hand, black wet glazed plug is caused by the burned oil leaking past the piston rings or valve guides as well as burning in the cylinder.
4 (Guide) A member of the Guide Association.The cash will be used to renovate the Scout building, also used by Cubs, Brownies, Guides and Venture Scouts....
  • She says proceeds will go towards improving the parish hall which is used by local community groups such as the Brownies and Guides.
  • From 7pm Brownies, Cubs, Scouts and Guides from the York area will take to the stage for the gang show.
verb
1 [with object and adverbial of direction] Show or indicate the way to (someone): he guided her to the front row and sat beside her figurative information is available to guide you through the planning and development process...
  • Whether grilling on the back porch or packing a picnic for the beach, there are many cookbooks available to guide you through the best of the season's culinary treats.
  • As a good postmodern who just wants to know which script I'm supposed to follow as the news guides me toward what I should think, I'm confused.
  • So, what we do in these countries is we select very quickly a strong local partner who can guide us through the systems and the processes needed to respond properly to the governments.

Synonyms

lead, lead the way, conduct, show, show someone the way, usher, shepherd, direct, steer, pilot, escort, accompany, attend;
see, take, help, assist
1.1 [with object] Direct the motion or positioning of (something): the groove in the needle guides the thread...
  • Your doctor guides the needle into position using special x-ray equipment.
  • A second attempt by the RAF on the same day also failed when the four-and-a-half ton cross crushed a metal cone installed in a bid to guide the cross into position.
  • The role of troops on the ground has been minimised to a few elite forces positioned to guide the missiles in with lasers, heightening accuracy.
2 [with object] Direct or influence the behaviour or development of: his life was guided by his religious beliefs...
  • Politics is the art or science concerned with guiding or influencing governmental policy.
  • However, its development has not been guided by any master plan.
  • From birth to death and from the rites of marriage to the most mundane aspects of daily life, the life of a Muslim is continuously directed, guided and influenced by the Qur'an.

Synonyms

direct, steer, control, manage, command, lead, conduct, run, be in charge of, take charge of, take control of, have control of, govern, rule, preside over, superintend, supervise, oversee;
handle, regulate, manipulate, manoeuvre
advise, counsel, give advice to, give counsel to, give counselling to, direct, give direction to, make recommendations to, make suggestions to, give someone tips, give someone hints, give someone pointers, inform, give information to;
illuminate, educate, instruct, teach, give instruction to, be responsible for the education of

Derivatives

guidable

/ˈɡʌɪdəb(ə)l / adjective

guider

noun ...
  • Last year it was estimated that guiders in the country gave up an average of eight hours a week to help our young people, and that one in three women had at some time been part of the organisation.
  • Hundreds of guiders and local people swung into action to raise the £135,000 needed to buy the property and the thousands more needed to renovate it.
  • They were then directed by two guiders armed with mobile phones, who were based at the shopping centre trying to solve a selection of cryptic clues.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French guide (noun), guider (verb), of Germanic origin; related to wit2.

Rhymes

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