单词 | advise |
释义 | advise (once / 77 pages) v To advise someone is to give them advice, or counsel. If you live in Iceland and a friend visiting you from Hawaii asks what he should pack, advise him to bring warm clothes and snow boots. Advise comes from a Latin word for vision. We want people to advise us if we think they can see the whole picture better than we can. For this reason, we often seek the advice of trained people. Financial advisors advise their clients on which funds to invest in. Legal advisors advise their clients on the law. To advise can also be to give notice. You should advise your boss of your decision to quit at least two weeks in advance. WORD FAMILYadvise: advisable, advised, advisee, advisement, adviser, advises, advising, advisor, advisory, misadvise+/advisable: advisability, advisabler, advisablest, advisably, inadvisable, unadvisable/advised: advisedly, ill-advised, unadvised/advisee: advisees/advisement: advisements/adviser: advisers/advisor: advisors/advisory: advisories/inadvisable: inadvisability, inadvisably/misadvise: misadvised, misadvising/unadvisable: unadvisably/unadvised: unadvisedly USAGE EXAMPLESSidney D. Drell, a Stanford physicist who advised presidents from Nixon to Obama, signed the letter before dying late last month at 90. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) The year before, he set up a Vatican commission, including some victims, to advise local Churches on how to prevent abuse. Reuters(Jan 02, 2017) They’d be well advised to fire their Growth Hackers and start prioritizing intellectual integrity over content farming. Salon(Jan 02, 2017) 1v give advice to Syn|Hypo|Hyper counsel, rede exhort, press, urge, urge on force or impel in an indicated direction deter, dissuadeturn away from by persuasion admonish, discourage, monish, warnadmonish or counsel in terms of someone's behavior tip, tip offgive insider information or advise to misadvise, misguidegive bad advice to propoundput forward, as of an idea consultadvise professionally contraindicatemake a treatment inadvisable hurry, rushurge to an unnatural speed bear on, pushpress, drive, or impel (someone) to action or completion of an action talk out ofpersuade someone not to do something advocate, preachspeak, plead, or argue in favor of discuss, hash out, talk over speak with others about (something); talk (something) over in detail; have a discussion 2v inform (somebody) of something I advised him that the rent was due Syn|Hyper apprise, apprize, give notice, notify, send word inform impart knowledge of some fact, state or affairs, or event to 3v make a proposal, declare a plan for something Syn|Hypo|Hyper propose, suggest advocate, recommend, urge push for something advance, throw outbring forward for consideration or acceptance propositionsuggest sex to feed backrespond to a query or outcome posit, put forward, state, submitput before make a motion, movepropose formally; in a debate or parliamentary meeting declare state emphatically and authoritatively |
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