1A person who shows the way to others, especially one employed to show tourists around places of interest.

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1. 1.1 A professional mountain climber in charge of a group.
   职业登山向导
   Example sentencesExamples

   • There were also two cooks and four mountain guides.
   • She told herself not to worry, they were experienced climbers, they had guides, they had oxygen, they were roped together and the weather was good.
   • The academics part of the programme is being supervised by professional guides and instructors and the language skills are taught by University graduates.
   • Sunil and Mohanto had worked as professional river and mountain guides at Rishikesh.
   • The professional mountain guide or European Mountain Leader as he is officially known grew up on the side of Bleanaskill Mountain close to the Atlantic Drive.
   • Fat-tired planes buzz the nearby airport, taking climbers, guides, and gear to mountain base camps.
   • So to be invited to join ten of the world's best telemark skiers and mountain guides to ski-tour in the Lebanese highlands was a welcome chance to explore well off the beaten track.
   • In one hour we hit the car; in two, the Lander Bar, where, naturally, we meet three Kenyan mountain guides working for NOLS.
   • With Phil Berry, our mountaineering guide, I pushed up to the top of the pass by noon.
   • He thanked both his family and Mr Stevenson and his mountain guide Andy Owen at the Kendal climbing wall for their back-up.
   • Blyth and Bob are extremely experienced mountaineers and mountain guides, and Blyth also runs the avalanche forecasting service in Scotland.
   • Twenty-two would be mountain guides - including 2 women - were signed up for the first course.
   • John, who is a registered mountain guide by profession, runs his own very successful company, Viking Trekking.
   • With the help of a mechanical ascender, guides and novice climbers creep up ropes like inchworms into the forest canopy.
   • Why do professional mountain guides always look lean, cut, and as if they could jog to the summit without breaking a sweat?
   • For more active visitors there's canyoning and mountain guides for hire, and for the less active there are plenty of waterside restaurants where you drink a glass of wine and read, or even write, a book.
   • Mountain guides operate from new Daureb Center at Brandberg
   • In the past few days I've spoken to mountain guides, outdoor centre, bunkhouse and hostel operators, those who run walking tours and outdoor gear retailers and all of them fear the worst.
   • Tied together by a length of rope, Whymper and the guide scrambled up the steep slopes until they reached a tall slab of rock known as the Chimney.
   • Born in the Lake District, Stuart Miller became a professional mountain guide in 1985, but during a wet summer in the lakes he tried his hand at running a white water river in a kids rubber dinghy.

2A person who advises others, especially in matters of behaviour or belief.

1. 2.1 A thing that helps someone to form an opinion or make a decision or calculation.
   有指导意义的事物；有助于作出决定（或估计）的事物
   your resting pulse rate is a rough guide to your general physical condition

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Like sonata form it is not a rigid formula, and therefore the scheme illustrated can be taken as only a rough guide to its general features.
   • It's especially valuable to have a guide to decision making.
   • Species and site characteristics often serve as a general guide to fertilization in established Christmas tree plantations.
   • But it's actually useless - or downright misleading - as a guide to making decisions.
   • This book provides a unique and contemporary guide to assist this decision.
   • But no matter where you live, you can use the program outlined in this brochure as a general guide to growing a healthy lawn.
   • Understanding the frequency of onset also can be a guide to recognizing symptoms.
   • But the indexes serve as a rough guide to the appalling reality of the rising household expenses of the majority of English people in the Tudor period.
   • Post decision rationalisation is not always a guide to the decision making process and in most situations will have to be treated with caution.
   • My lecturer used this anecdote as a rough guide to those regimes where the leadership was out of touch with reality, and were on the slippery slope to a coup d'état or being thrown out.
   • They know they have to live their own lives, and use that inherent intuition as a guide to practical decisions.
   • As social creatures, we do rely upon the behavior of others as a guide to our own decisions, and we do invest significantly in presenting a consistent persona to those around us.
   • At the end of the seventeenth century, the first academy to function as a guide to general cultural endeavour in Italy was the Accademia degli Arcadi, founded in 1690.
   • The website warns the rating ‘does not necessarily indicate the presence of radon gas in a particular property’ and is only a guide to indicate if further inquiries should be made.
   • If there is, could you help me out with a phonemic transcription or even a rough guide to the pronunciation of the following?
   • Third, we may interpret choice theory as an exploration of what it means to be rational and, possibly, as a guide to making sensible decisions, rather than as a description of how people act in practice.
   • The indirect method of carving is not to be confused with the practice of making a small preliminary figure in clay, wax, or a comparable material as a general guide to the sculptor cutting his stone block.
   • A quick guide to the calculations performed is shown in Table 1.
   • Measuring your waist gives a rough guide to whether you need to lose some weight.
   • I recognise that Letters to the Editor are not necessarily an infallible guide to public opinion.

   Synonyms

   model, pattern, blueprint, template, archetype, prototype, sample, example, exemplar

   standard, touchstone, measure, benchmark, yardstick, gauge, norm, paradigm, ideal, precedent, guiding principle
2. 2.2 A book, document, or display providing information on a subject or about a place.
   手册，指南，要览
   a comprehensive guide to British hotels and restaurants

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The library will also put on a large display of holiday guides, videos and language phrase books to help make your holiday 2003 your most enjoyable yet.
   • The guide provides information on how to identify problems in the lawn and garden and what to do about it, as well as 10 tips for a healthy lawn.
   • However, as a comprehensive guide to a difficult subject it is excellent.
   • Solicitors recognise that many buyers are baffled by a lack of clear and comprehensive information and guides to talk them through the procedure.
   • I'm planning on compiling all of the responses and information into a handy guide for folks looking for internet access in the rural US.
   • She equipped herself with a little optimism, phrase books and travel guides, and clothes contained for overhead storage space.
   • His book is a comprehensive guide to techniques and methods currently used by police, special forces and intelligence operators.
   • Before you start, get hold of a copy of the DVLA's car import pack, a free guide which includes information on all the forms you will need as well as a list of useful telephone numbers.
   • This guide contains information on about 3000 courses offered by universities, technikons, private and technical colleges in South Africa.
   • There are a number of good guides, information sources and checklists available so you won't have to start from scratch.
   • Dictionaries range from language guides to handbooks of information arranged alphabetically on a range of topics.
   • The menu invited us to browse the extensive collection of travel books, guides and maps.
   • You can also go out and pace the course if you want to - that's what caddies do - and many clubs provide the same information in printed guides.
   • This is not a travel guide, but a book that is steeped in discovering India as she is.
   • It is mainly for its historical importance that the cemetery has now become a kind of a tourist destination and finds a mention in most travel books and regional guides.
   • There are study guides offered in many subjects, like literature, math, history, the sciences - this list could go on forever.
   • The guide, which includes information on how to shoot up heroin and safety advice for prostitutes, also reports on which soup kitchens offer the best food and how to beg politely.
   • ‘We are trying to create the widest selection possible for UK and worldwide guides and travel books,’ he added.
   • The family and those taking the roles of servants were provided with advice manuals, etiquette guides and recipe books that would have been in the house at the time.
   • The guide has information for both new and regular borrowers and covers a range of lending products, designed for short, medium and long term needs.

   Synonyms

   guidebook, tourist guide, travel guide, Baedeker, travelogue, directory, handbook, manual, ABC, A to Z

   Latin vade mecum

   rare enchiridion

3A structure or marking which directs the motion or positioning of something.

门闩导轨需要校直。

4A member of the Guide Association.

1with object and adverbial of direction Show or indicate the way to (someone)

他领她到前排并坐在她旁边。

1. 1.1with object Direct the motion or positioning of (something)
   导向装置；定向（或定位）标记
   the groove in the needle guides the thread

   针上的凹槽引导线的走向。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • A footman, feet bound in protective padding, stood on the table to guide it into position, the column dedicated to Lady Morgan facing her place.
   • Pilot boat men who guide ships in and out of Waterford Port last night balloted in favour of industrial action, a move which could disrupt July's Tall Ships' Race launch.
   • The trial flight involved guiding the plane from a set position above a small runway to the ground, a challenging task.
   • A second attempt by the RAF on the same day also failed when the four-and-a-half ton cross crushed a metal cone installed in a bid to guide the cross into position.
   • Your doctor guides the needle into position using special x-ray equipment.
   • The sailor controls the mast with their arms and steers in a standing position, moving body weight to guide the vessel.
   • She gently pushed his hand down on the knife, guiding it through the motions.
   • My hands raised up as if to guide the flask to a more giving position, but fell again to my side when whoever was holding it seemed to sense my desire and tipped the flask just a bit more.
   • I was also less than impressed with her showing the class the needle used to guide the epidural - yes, it does look scary, but so do forceps and she didn't seem quite so vehemently negative about them.
   • Regardless of its munition, it should be guided to its target for precision attack.
   • Missiles are also guided by radar, if they are the larger ones in Explainer's size range.
   • The American flight training has always been said to be just enough to allow them to take over the flights from the original pilots and guide the planes directly into their targets.
   • Initially, machines are easier to use as they set you up in the right position and guide the weight through the correct path.
   • The embryologist guides the needle into the egg using joystick directed servomotors
   • Its pilot, in a show of agility, guided the airship to a vertical position before shooting off into the sky.
   • If there is an emergency and the plane has to come in at night, everyone on the island with a car has to go and position themselves in the field with their headlights on to guide the plane in to land.
   • The pilots are all members of a cooperative which has a contract with ABP to provide pilots to guide ships in and out of port.
   • Ball amino often makes it because its pointy shape catches a portion of the chamber and guides the rest of the round back into position with a wedge effect, allowing feeding.
   • The role of troops on the ground has been minimised to a few elite forces positioned to guide the missiles in with lasers, heightening accuracy.
   • The darts maintain a high kinetic energy as they are guided to the same single target.

2with object Direct or influence the behaviour or development of.