mentor

Word family

men·tor1 /ˈmentɔː $ -tɔːr/ noun [countableC]

BOHELPan experienced person who advises and helps a less experienced person 导师，指导者

Examples from the Corpus

mentor• You can have a mentor, call it whatever you will as semantics are irrelevant here.• Second, you need a mentor to guide you along the way.• Joe was the forerunner and mentor in foreign reporting, but Stewartaided by abundant letters of introduction from Joewas learning fast.• Auden later became a friend and mentor.• The key feature of effective mentor schemes is a genuine consistent interest on the part of the mentor for the young person.• The program paired a group of female mentors with seventhand eighth-graders from Everett as an athletic version of Big Sisters.• On 16 October he wrote for advice to his mentor, Ritschl.• My mentors were people I read about, such as Richard Byrd, the explorer, rather than people I knew.

mentor2 verb [transitiveT]

to be someone’s mentor 当〔某人〕的导师[指导者]

Now she mentors undergraduates who are training to be teachers.

眼下她对正在接受教师培训的大学生提供指导。

From Longman Business Dictionary

mentormen·tor /ˈmentɔː-tɔːr/ noun [countableC]HUMAN RESOURCES

an experienced person who gives advice to less experienced people to help them in their work

He now runs his own company and is a mentor to other young entrepreneurs.

—mentoring noun [uncountableU]

She believes that companies should create programs to encourage mentoring and career development.

—mentor verb [transitiveT]

Only one of the four trainees she mentored last year has found a permanent post.