adage
英 ['?d?d?]
美['?d?d?]
- n. 格言，諺語；箴言
GRE擴展詞匯
詞態(tài)變化
復數:?adages;
助記提示
adage: 愛的句（大家喜愛的句子）
中文詞源
adage 格言
前綴ad-, 去，往。詞根ag, 做。催人奮進的話。
英文詞源
- adage
- adage: [16] Adage was borrowed, via French, from Latin adagium ‘maxim, proverb’. This seems to have been formed from a variant of aio ‘I say’ plus the prefīx ad- ‘to’. In the 16th and 17th centuries an alternative version, adagy, existed.
- adage (n.)
- "brief, familiar proverb," 1540s, Middle French adage, from Latin adagium "adage, proverb," apparently from adagio, from ad- "to" (see ad-) + *agi-, root of aio "I say," from PIE *ag- "to speak." But Tucker thinks the second element is rather ago "set in motion, drive, urge."
雙語例句
- 1. The adage " Trade is better than aid " is clearly of great relevance to agriculture.
- “ 貿易勝于援助, ” 這一格言對于農業(yè)顯然是十分中肯的.
來自辭典例句
- 2. But the old adage that men grow into office has not proved true in my experience.
- 但是,根據我的經驗,人們所謂的工作崗位造就人材這句古話并不正確.
來自辭典例句
- 3. Answering probably an adage: The day fails the person wishes.
- 或許正應了一句老話: 天不遂人愿.
來自互聯網
- 4. Han Jia , I think both of us have followed this adage.
- 韓佳, 我覺得我們倆就是這么做的.
來自互聯網
- 5. You've heard the adage many times about turning lemons into lemonade, right ?
- 相信你已經聽過這個諺語很多次了吧,是關于把檸檬變成檸檬汽水的, 是 嗎 ?
來自互聯網