counsel

1. N-UNCOUNT Counsel is advice. 勸告[正式]

He had always been able to count on her wise counsel. 他總是能夠指望她明智的忠告。

2. V-T If you counsel someone to take a course of action, or if you counsel a course of action, you advise that course of action. 建議; 提議[正式]

My advisers counselled me to do nothing. 我的顧問(wèn)建議我不要做任何事情。

3. V-T If you counsel people, you give them advice about their problems. 提供建議

...a psychologist who counsels people with eating disorders. …一名向飲食紊亂癥患者提供咨詢(xún)的心理醫(yī)生。

4. N-COUNT Someone's counsel is the lawyer who gives them advice on a legal case and speaks on their behalf in court. 辯護(hù)律師

Singleton's counsel said after the trial that he would appeal. 庭審之后辛格爾頓的辯護(hù)律師說(shuō)他會(huì)上訴。