| 词组 | advise |
| 释义 | advise 1. Advise, advice. Numerous commentators and handbooks, from grade school on up, warn us not to confuse advise and advice: advise is a verb, advice is a noun. If this advice seems like old stuff to you, we have some citations to show you: • She can spot creative genius in a stick-figure drawing, pack a mean lunch and give great advise — advt., N.Y. Times Mag., 27 Apr. 1980 • ... honor bound to advice prospective students of the dismal prospects for employment —Biographical Dictionary of the Phonetic Sciences, 1977 The U.S. Constitution spells the noun advice when it speaks of the Senate's role in relation to treaties made by the President. So does this distinguished modern writer: • Its Board of Pardons, established in 1883, consists of five responsible citizens appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the state Senate — William Styron, This Quiet Dust and Other Writings, 1982 So should you. 2. Copperud 1970 cites a considerable number of commentators who object to the use of advise to mean "inform." They chiefly object to its use in business correspondence. The objectors, it should be noted, are neither in business nor writing for those who are; Janis 1984, who is addressing business people, finds it only "sometimes stilted" and thinks the phrase "Please be advised" is often deadwood—it is, in fact, only a polite formula. Reader's Digest 1983 notes that the sense is fully established "in its own sphere." As you can see from the examples, it is not limited to business correspondence. It sometimes carries the sense of "to inform officially": • The Immigration and Naturalization Service advised Krips that he must either depart voluntarily or be detained —Current Biography, June 1965 But more often it simply means "inform": • ... which prompted our inquiring lawyer to write thus: "... If it does deal with said subject will you kindly advise where I can buy said book." —John Barkham, Saturday Rev., 13 Feb. 1954 • Jiro Tokuyama... advised me that today 80 percent of young Japanese husbands in urban communities turn over their pay envelopes, unopened, to their wives —Vance Packard, The Sexual Wilderness, 1968 • He had not advised his friends of his marriage — Willa Cather, The Old Beauty and Others, 1948 • ... a stone guide-post advised him that Gaza was still eight miles distant —Lloyd C. Douglas, The Big Fisherman, 1948 |
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