advice是与advise同根的名词,指有业务专长或经验(可真可假)的人对某一行动提出的带指点或指教性的意见或劝告,如教师对学生的指教或医生对病人的劝告等,也指商业上关于交易等资料的通知。
advice作“劝告”解时是抽象名词,不可数,表示数的概念时须借助表示单位的名词piece。advice作“消息,报导”解和在商业用语中作“通知单”解时是可数名词,且常用复数。
The old often give good advice to the young.老年人常常对年轻人提出金玉良言。
You should ask for the teacher’s advice. /You should ask the teacher for advice.你应该去征求老师的意见。
My advice to you would be to wait.我劝你等着。
Advice to investors was based on the premise that interest rates would continue to fall.给予投资者的建议是以利率将继续下降这一点为前提的。