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marriage guidance

noun
🔊/ˌmærɪdʒ ˈɡaɪdns/
🔊/ˌmærɪdʒ ˈɡaɪdns/
 [uncountable] (British English, becoming old-fashioned)
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  1. advice that is given by specially trained people to couples with problems in their marriage婚姻指导；婚姻咨询 This term is becoming old-fashioned and it is more usual now to refer to relationship counselling.
    • a marriage guidance counsellor婚姻指导顾问
    • They decided to go for marriage guidance.他们决定去求婚。
    Topics Suggestions and advicec2, Life stagesc2
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryMarriage guidance is used before these nouns:
    • counselling
    • counsellor
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