| 释义 |
guided, ppl. a.|ˈgaɪdɪd|
[f. guide v. + -ed1.]
a. Directed or led by guidance; spec. of a tour: accompanied by a guide, having a guide in charge.
1857H. R. Reynolds in Life vi. (1898) 140, I was..prepared to accept the decision..as a rightly guided one. 188219th Cent. XII. 131 It is difficult, indeed, for the guider..to avoid giving hints..to the guided one. 1909Daily Chron. 6 Sept. 4/6 On a guided ascent. 1969New Yorker 30 Aug. 30/1 There is a very good museum... There are guided tours. 1970Ibid. 12 Sept. 31/1 We were taken to see it [sc. Lenin's body] as part of a guided tour.
b. Of weapons: operating by remote control or as directed by equipment carried in the weapon, as guided bomb, guided missile, guided rocket, guided weapon.
1945Newsweek 27 Aug. 25/1 The ‘guided missile’—a rocket projectile that can be aimed accurately over great distances. 1948J. Steinbeck Russ. Jrnl. (1949) i. 3 Experiments with atomic weapons and guided missiles. 1952Ann. Reg. 1951 96 United Kingdom experts attended tests of rockets and guided weapons at the Woomera range. 1954Economist 11 Sept. 12/3 Guided, containing electronic control mechanisms, designed to seek out the target. Capable of altering course during flight. 1954K. W. Gatland Devel. Guided Missile (ed. 2) v. 130 A guided bomb of this type need have no inherent propulsion unit. It will leave the bomber in the normal way... The task of the bomb-aimer will then be to guide the weapon by remote radio-control. 1954Ann. Reg. 1953 6 In the field of armament research..work on guided rockets had been intensified. 1955Times 30 June 7/4 Probably few people know that the first guided missile was designed and made in Great Britain. It was the invention of Mr. A. M. Low, developed by him in the course of the war of 1914–18. 1956Nature 7 Apr. 636/1 The first guided-weapons trial ship should be in operation next summer. 1958Daily Mail 30 June 2/6 The guided-missile ship..will be in Greek or Dodecanese ports. 1958‘N. Blake’ Penknife in my Heart i. 20 Swift and frantic as a volley of guided missiles out of control. 1965M. Spark Mandelbaum Gate i. 12 The State of Israel had that day sent up its first guided rocket.
Add:c. Of a bus: modified so as to run along grooves or tracks (see busway s.v. *bus n.2 3). Of a bus route: having such guidance.
1966Daily Tel. 15 Aug. 16/3 Among the ideas for town travel now being assessed by Ministry scientific experts..[are] guided buses to run along ‘busways’ only a few inches wider than the bus. 1984Buses Feb. 69/3 The first guided busway in the world to use double-deck buses is to be introduced during 1984 by West Midlands PTE.
▸ guided imagery n. a method of relaxation in which concentration on positive mental images (freq. under the guidance of another) is intended to reduce pain, alleviate stress, promote general well-being, etc.; cf. guided meditation n. at Additions.
1973W. D. Trussell in M. Rosenbaum Drug Abuse & Drug Addiction 67 The group *Guided Imagery technique is used to give the adults the opportunity to examine an altered state of consciousness as they experience it. 1974Valley News (Van Nuys, Calif.) 10 Jan. 3 c/2 Other means such as meditation and guided imagery for attaining growth and development. 2003U.S. News & World Rep. 21 July 42/2 Psycho-oncology..offers cancer patients treatments such as talk therapy, social support groups, and relaxation exercises like yoga and guided imagery.
▸ guided meditation n. spiritual or therapeutic meditation under the guidance of another, or with the aid of set guidelines, a recording, etc.; an instance of this.
1946Los Angeles Times 2 Feb. 3 (advt.) Enjoy a group experience of *guided meditation. 1983J. Macy Despair & Personal Power p. xiv, By means of structured exercises, bodywork, guided meditations, rituals and plain talk, they have broken the taboos against expressing their pain for the world. 2001C. Palahniuk Choke xx. 131 It was more a kind of guided meditation. She'd tell Mr. Jones to focus on the tension in his chest and let it recede. |