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单词 guidebook
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guidebookn.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈguide-book.
A book for the guidance of strangers or visitors in a district, town, building, etc., giving a description of the roads, places, or objects of interest to be found there. Also figurative.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > guidance in travel > [noun] > that which guides or leads > guidebook
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1814 J. Mayne Jrnl. 25 Oct. (1909) x. 164 At Mr. Vasi's we purchased his guide-book, which is considered the best of its kind.
1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XI xxiii. 114 I..do not choose to encroach Upon the guide-book's privilege.
1845 M. Pattison in Christian Remembrancer Jan. 72 That boundless plain of Languedoc, convicted of all guide-books of being arid, brown, and wholly uninteresting.
a1846 B. R. Haydon Autobiogr. (1927) ix. 135 I mean my Life, if possible, to be a guide book to youth.
1862 J. H. Burton Book-hunter ii. 116 In any district of country not desecrated by the tourist's guide-books.
1935 T. S. Eliot Murder in Cathedral ii. 86 The sanctity shall not depart from it..though sightseers come with guide-books looking over it.
attributive and in other combinations.1866 J. Macgregor Thousand Miles in Rob Roy Canoe i. 8 In his guide-book route,..from town to town.1887 J. J. Hissey Holiday on Road 4 Guide-book-lauded spots.1889 Spectator 14 Dec. 849 The somewhat depressing ‘guide-book’ style.
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