0019-Advice counsel recommendation

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Advice and counsel mean an opinion or a judgement given by one person to another urging him either to do something or not to do it. Advice, the more general term, may be given on serious matter or relatively trivial ones, but counsel suggests solemn advice given in an official or authoritative capacity about a matter of some importance, at least to the person seeking it: to give advice to one’s son on the choice of a career; a woman seeking advice on hair styling; a young resident who profited from the counsel of an experienced surgeon.

Advice 和 counsel表示某人的一种观点或评价，旨在说服别人做或者别做某事。Advice常用于形容严肃的事件或相对琐碎的事物，而counsel表示来自于官方的或者权威部门的给予重要事件的的庄重建议，至少是给予正在寻找建议的人的庄重建议，例如：to give advice to one’s son on the choice of a career（给某人儿子职业选择的建议）; a woman seeking advice on hair styling（一位就发型问题寻求经验的女人）; a young resident who profited from the counsel of an experienced surgeon（一位年轻的住院医师受益于一位经验丰富的外科医生的建议）.

Advice, unless qualified by an adjective suggesting otherwise, often implies that the adviser has a direct and more or less personal interest in the person advised; the subject of advice is thus often personal in nature. Counsel, on the other hand, suggests a detached, impersonal view on the part of the person giving it; and the subject of counsel is often of a business nature. 

Advice，除非是有相关的形容词限定，否则，常常暗示提供建议的人直接的或者或多或少的对被建议的人感兴趣，因此这种建议的主题通常在性质上具有个人特色。然而，Counsel表示一种独立的非个人观点的建议，并且counsel表示的建议的主题通常具有商业性质。

Recommendation, in this sense, suggests advice given on the basis of one’s own experience, and expresses a stronger, more positive endorsement of a particular course than advice. One’s advice may be to choose the lesser of two evils; a recommendation implies that one course is distinctly favourable and ought to be purused on its own merits: to read a new book on the recommendation of a friend.

Recommendation，表示给予某人自身经历而给出的建议，相对于advice 来说，Recommendation强调一种基于某种特殊经历的强烈的，积极的认可。某人的advice可能是从两种恶性（evil）选择一个不那么邪恶的；而，recommendation暗示一种选择就有明显的优势，并且因其优势而被选中，例如：to read a new book on the recommendation of a friend（阅读一本朋友推荐的书）.