单词 | tutelage |
释义 | tutelage (once / 6809 pages) n If you babysit and tutor younger children after school, the kids are under your tutelage. You are responsible for their care and education. Tutelage can mean guardianship as well as teaching and sometimes it's difficult to tell which sense is meant. If an athlete is under the tutelage of his coach, the coach teaches him but is also responsible for the athlete's health and well-being. When the word describes a situation where one country or culture takes charge of another, it's more clear that management and guardianship are meant. WORD FAMILYtutor: tutelage, tutored, tutorial, tutoring, tutors, tutorship+/tutored: untutored/tutorial: tutorials/tutorship: tutorships USAGE EXAMPLESKathleen “KT” McFarland started her career as a low-level staffer in the Situation Room of Nixon’s White House and rose under the tutelage of Kissinger. Washington Post(Dec 20, 2016) It also wanted a trade of prisoners and bodies of slain Hezbollah and Iraqi militants under its tutelage. The Guardian(Dec 17, 2016) He counts two former Muslims and one former agnostic who have converted to Christianity under his tutelage at Parkview Gardens. Washington Post(Nov 23, 2016) 1n attention and management implying responsibility for safety Syn|Hypo|Hyper care, charge, guardianship due care, ordinary care, reasonable care the care that a reasonable man would exercise under the circumstances; the standard for determining legal duty foster caresupervised care for delinquent or neglected children usually in an institution or substitute home great caremore attention and consideration than is normally bestowed by prudent persons providencethe guardianship and control exercised by a deity slight caresuch care as a careless or inattentive person would exercise protection the activity of protecting someone or something 2n teaching pupils individually (usually by a tutor hired privately) Syn|Hyper tuition, tutorship instruction, pedagogy, teaching the profession of a teacher |
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