guide: [14] The ancestor of guide was Germanic *wit- ‘know’, source of English wise, wit, and witness. From it was derived a verb *wītan, and the Franks, a West Germanic people who conquered Gaul in the 3rd and 4th centuries AD, brought it with them. It eventually became Old French guider, and was borrowed by English. The semantic progression from ‘knowing’ to ‘showing’ is also displayed in the related German weisen ‘show, direct, indicate’. => wise, wit, witness
guide (v.)
late 14c., "to lead, direct, conduct," from Old French guider "to guide, lead, conduct" (14c.), earlier guier, from Frankish *witan "show the way" or a similar Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *witanan "to look after, guard, ascribe to, reproach" (cognates: German weisen "to show, point out," Old English witan "to reproach," wite "fine, penalty"), from PIE *weid- "to see" (see vision). The form of the French word influenced by Old Proven?al guidar (n.) "guide, leader," or Italian guidare, both from the same source. Related: Guided; guiding. Guided missile, one capable of altering course in flight, is from 1945.
guide (n.)
mid-14c., "one who shows the way," from Old French guide, 14c., verbal noun from guider (see guide (v.)). In book titles from 1610s; meaning "book of information on local sites" is from 1759. In 18c. France, a "for Dummies" or "Idiot's Guide to" book would have been a guid' ane, literally "guide-ass." Guide-dog for the blind is from 1932.
雙語例句
1. This is it, folks: the best record guide in the business.
就是這個，伙計們，業內最好的唱片指南。
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2. A guide gives a brief talk on the history of the site.
導游簡要地介紹了那個遺址的歷史。
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3. The guide book contains a short write-up of each hotel.
指南上有對每個飯店的簡評。
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4. The national curriculum must be a guide, not a straitjacket.
國家課程設置必須是指導性的，而不是約束性的。
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5. The new e-books will include a host of Rough Guide titles.