| 单词 | counsel |
| 释义 | counselWord family adjectivecounsellablenouncounsellingcounsellorcounsellorshipcounsel Law coun·sel1 /ˈkaʊnsəl/ noun [uncountableU] → council1 SCTa type of lawyer who represents you in court 辩护律师 counsel for The judge asked counsel for the defence to explain. 法官要求被告的辩护律师作出解释。 2. keep your own counsel writtenSECRET to keep your plans, opinions etc secret 不透露自己的计划[观点等] Examples from the Corpus keep your own counsel• However, he may simply have been keeping his own counsel when talking to me out of a proper loyalty and caution.• Amelia Earhart solved the problem her grandmother presented by keeping her own counsel.• To the end, he kept his own counsel.• I keep my own counsel now, and my children are baffled by the new me.• McLaren keeps his own counsel, being as reticent as Ferguson is gregarious.• So, obediently she kept her own counsel.• They were inscrutable, they kept their own counsel, and they were intelligent.• She is precisely the person to keep her own counsel for three hours.• Even with those she loves most, Ginny tends to keep her own counsel. 3. literaryADVISE advice 忠告 Examples from the Corpus counsel• Emperor Constantine was said to visit the wise hermit for counsel.• And more unusually for counsel, George will ask other observers, even journalists, how they think it's going.• I'll miss her because I value her counsel.• Some Democrats on Capitol Hill have joined in the call for an independent counsel to investigate campaign fund raising.• They were denied legal counsel or the right to call witnesses in their defence.• Not even George Herbert's counsel that the country-parson's rage might here and there be justified had comforted.• Could we deny any of them if they came seeking counsel?• David Turetsky, a senior counsel in the Justice Department.• The counsel for the defense gave her opening statement.• Later I was told that in criminal trials counsel are not permitted to talk to their witnesses during adjournments. Psychology, psychiatry counsel2 verb (counselled, counselling British EnglishBrE, counseled, counseling American EnglishAmE) [transitiveT] 1 formalADVISE to advise someone 建议 counsel somebody to do something She counselled them not to accept this settlement. 她建议他们不要接受这个解决方案。 2 MPADVISEto listen and give support to someone with problems 给…提供咨询，辅导 a new unit to counsel alcoholics 一个辅导酗酒者的新部门 Examples from the Corpus counsel• He counsels against reading too much Isaac Bashevis Singer.• What, perhaps, she needs to do is to learn to counsel by doing counselling and by being counselled.• Carvalho counsels cancer patients at a Rio hospital.• But an expert who counsels male rape victims says a change in the law is needed.• They also may counsel students on personal, educational, or vocational matters.• In small colleges, they may counsel students. From Longman Business Dictionary counselcoun·sel /ˈkaʊnsəl/ noun [countableC usually singular]LAW 1a lawyer who represents a client in a court of lawSYN BrE barrister My defence counsel destroyed his evidence on that fact alone. The prosecuting counsel told the jury that there was no further evidence to consider. the counsel for the defendant 2American EnglishAmE a lawyer or group of lawyers who give legal advice to a company or organization (1100-1200) Old French conseil, from Latin consilium, from consulere; → CONSULT |
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