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- having or consisting in the power to make recommendations but not to take action enforcing them顾问的, 咨询的：
an independent advisory committee
独立顾问委员会
the Commission acts in an advisory capacity.
委员会行使顾问咨询职能。
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- recommended but not compulsory建议性的：
the EU has put forward an advisory maximum figure.
欧盟已提出建议性的最大数字。
(pl. -ies)
- an official announcement or warning官方通告（或告诫）。
WORD TRENDS
Many words once labelled as specifically North American are now just as common in British English - and advisory is a prime example. Typically used as an adjective, it first emerged as a noun in the 1930s in reference to a severe weather warning issued by a meteorological office, and was considered to be a specifically American usage until recently. The use became more widely known when stickers bearing the words Parental Advisory: Explicit Contents began to be fixed to some CDs of rock and rap music in the early 1990s. The Oxford English Corpus shows that the noun is now just as likely to be used in British English, in contexts such as travel advice: Thailand is the latest country to be given a thumbs-down travel advisory from the British Foreign Office.