单词 | guidance |
释义 | guidancen. 1. The action of guiding; guiding or directing agency; leadership, direction. a. (a) with reference to a journey or movement. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > guidance in travel > [noun] conductc1290 safe conduct?a1400 guidance1590 direction1596 wayfare1876 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. iv. sig. Ee8 So forth she rode..Following the guydaunce of her blinded guest. 1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1846) I. V. 17 They steered by the guidance of the stars. 1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 219 Mounting the heckles, and carrying them along the chainway by the guidance of parallel bars. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xi. 74 We trusted to our own muscles to make good any mistake in the way of guidance. 1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. vi. 199 At Lycia he arrived Under the favoring guidance of the gods. (b) spec. in Astronautics. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > navigation of course of aircraft > [noun] > directing system specifically in astronautics guidance1725 1962 F. I. Ordway et al. Basic Astronautics p. vii High-thrust space carrier vehicles with accurate guidance systems. 1969 Sunday Times 13 July 13/2 Guidance system, the system which measures and evaluates flight information, correlates this with target data, converts the results into the conditions necessary to achieve the desired flight path and communicates this data in the form of commands to the flight control system. 1970 Guardian 18 Apr. 1/1 Guidance control officers reported..that it had gone well, putting the spacecraft within a hundredth of the 6.5 re-entry angle. b. with reference to conduct or procedure. ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > [noun] > guidance wissingc1000 rightingOE guidance?1548 guide1568 guidementa1578 aim1597 chalking1613 sterning1638 light or leading1644 pilotry1842 the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > advice > [noun] > advising or guidance counsellingc1330 address1477 guidance?1548 instructions1665 guidage1805 ?1548 J. Bale Comedy Thre Lawes Nature i. sig. Aiij For gydaunce of Mankynde. 1672 T. Duning in O. Airy Essex Papers (1890) I. 39 Yr Excellenc..whose influenc we must have to sho, and imploring the guidanc and blessing of God on yrs. 1775 E. Burke Corr. (1844) II. 72 God and nature never made them to think or to act without guidance and direction. 1804 W. Tennant Indian Recreat. (ed. 2) I. 331 Whose elevated rank..gave him in a great measure the guidance of fashion. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 3 Instructions..for the guidance of his son. 1858 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) III. xvii. 496 An English sovereign could know no guidance but the existing law. 1866 H. Bushnell Vicarious Sacrifice i. iv. 94 Angels..ministering unseen, where they may, in warnings and secret guidances. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vii. §4. 375 The Huguenots..had become a formidable party under the guidance of the Admiral Coligny. c. With reference to problems and advice relating to education, marriage, careers, etc. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > advice > [noun] > advising or guidance > as an occupation > types of counselling guidance1927 genetic counselling1949 1927 S. Blanton & M. G. Blanton (title) Child guidance. 1928 R. P. Truitt et al. (title) The child guidance clinic and the community. 1935 Time 13 May 28/2 Old Stone Church is one of an increasing number whose pastors run ‘marriage guidance bureaus’. 1947 C. E. Erickson & G. E. Smith Organiz. & Admin. Guidance Services viii. 207 The administrator should recognize the necessity for beginning the guidance program at a point consistent with its existing stage of development. The nature and amount of guidance training present among staff members and the facilities that the school has for proceeding with the extension and refinement of guidance services must be considered. 1951 M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 42/1 Vocational-guidance investigation has turned up the curious fact that executives..do show an aptitude for words. 1957 Encycl. Brit. XII. 295/2 The primary problem of vocational guidance is, given a person, to find the most suitable occupation. 1967 Medium Ævum 36 144 Benoit and Guido..characterized him [sc. Calkas] as the guidance counsellor. 1968 Lancet 9 Mar. 518/2 41% [of medical students] acknowledged that they had been given guidance about sexual difficulties unrelated to marriage. 2. quasi-concrete. Something which guides or leads. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > guidance in travel > [noun] > that which guides or leads guidance1712 society > authority > control > [noun] > guidance > that which guides lodestarc1374 clew1385 Palinurus1567 stern1577 thread1580 twist1580 sea-mark1589 Pole Star1590 cynosure1596 buoya1603 oracle1612 leading light1653 gospela1674 indexc1750 polar stara1774 pilot star1789 clue1840 guidance1841 guideline1917 breadcrumb trail1969 1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 40 Walks..are as so many Guidances and Means to conduct us throughout a Garden. 1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes v. 258 The Writer of a Book..wanders like a wild Ishmaelite, in a world of which he is as the spiritual light, either the guidance or the misguidance! 1899 Expositor Nov. 405 We have..a great picture of His attitude towards the other religions of the world and therein a guidance for ourselves. 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