英语释义

1. a concise statement of a principle

2. a terse formulation of a truth or sentiment adage
the high-minded aphorism, "Let us value the quality of life, not the quantity"

3. an ingeniously terse style of expression aphoristic language
These are dazzling chapters, packed with perfectly chosen anecdotes and pithy with aphorism.
— John Keegan

4. a short phrase that expresses a true or wise idea

片语

four aphorisms四句教

adages格言；[语] 谚语（adage的复数形式）

Idioms and Aphorisms成语和格言

maxims格言；箴言（maxim的复数）

aphorisms of confucius论语

meaningful aphorisms隽永警句

Aphorisms and Proverbs格言和谚语

英汉例句

• The former are undoubtedly of the same style as Gracian, and probably influenced him, though, as they are aphorisms and not maxims, I have not been able to quote parallels in the Notes.

  前者无疑与Gracian具备相同的风格，并可能直接影响了他，尽管因为它们是谚语不是格言，我还不能在Notes中引用引证这些相似之处。

• The aphorisms started following like water as all the old cliches got dusted off.

  一些陈词滥调象尘土一样扬起，一些格言警句象洪水一样到处泛滥。

• The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well. - Elias Canetti, Leo.

  读着伟大格言创作者们的书籍，心中有一种感觉：他们仿佛是深交的朋友。

• One of the most popular aphorisms used to describe good programmers is that they「re lazy.

  描述杰出程序员的最流行的箴言之一就是他们很懒惰。

• There is indeed no doubt that he and his predecessors were influenced by the form of the Spanish proverb in drawing up aphorisms and maxims.

  毋庸置疑，他和他的先行者们受到西班牙谚语的形式影响，尤其在抽取格言警句的时候。

• His aphorisms are widely quoted, but as both man and thinker he remains an enigmatic figure, 「philosophizing with a hammer」 and hurling unsettling challenges to some of our most cherished beliefs.

  他的格言是被广泛引用，但男子和思想家，他仍然是一个谜一般的人物，「哲思用锤子」令人不安的挑战和投掷一些我们最珍视的的信仰。

• They have been called stories but could equally be miniatures, anecdotes, essays, jokes, parables, fables, texts, aphorisms or even apophthegms, prayers or simply observations.

  他们被称为故事，但也同样是微缩模型，轶事，散文，笑话，寓言，寓言，文本，警句甚至apophthegms，祈祷或者干脆观察。

• The Supreme Court of the United States has descended from the disciplined legal reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Story to the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie.

  合众国的最高法院已经退化变质，约翰·马歇尔和约瑟夫·斯托里那训练有素的法律推理已是历史，现在只会写作幸运曲奇中的神秘格言体。

• If you pay a visit to our company, in our administrative building, in our customer-training area, in our staff canteen, you can see many quotations and aphorisms illustrating Chinese culture.

  你如果到我们公司看一看的话，在我们公司办公楼，在我们的客户培训区，在我们的员工食堂到处都可以看到，体现中国文化的语录警句。

• He formulated trenchant aphorisms that caught their attention.

  他阐述的鲜明格言引起了人们的注意。

• Some of the images are tagged with aphorisms or poems.

  有些画面还配上了警句或诗。

• Andy told me that one of Norton」s favourite aphorisms was one hand washes the other.

  安迪说，诺顿最喜欢的格言就是，用一只手洗凈另外一只手的罪孽。

• It「s one of the most basic aphorisms of business: the customer is always right.

  这是一句广为所知的商业警句：消费者永远是对的。

• The only way to read a book of aphorisms without being bored is to open it at random and, having found something that interests you, close the book and meditate.

  随意地打开它，找到一些自己感兴趣的事物，然后合上书沉思，这是读一本格言书而不厌倦它的唯一方法。

• The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved, into perpetuity, by a nation」s proverbs, fables, folk wisdom, maxims, aphorisms and quotations.

  智者的智慧和一个民族的谚语，寓言，民间智慧，格言汇聚而成的时代精华会永存。

相似词

adage格言，谚语；箴言

apothegm格言；箴言；警句

byword谚语，俗语；格言；笑柄

epigram警句；讽刺短诗；隽语

maxim(Maxim)人名；(英、罗、俄、哈萨)马克西姆

proverb谚语，格言；众所周知的人或事

saw锯；锯成；用锯；乱剪；拉锯似的来回移动

saying说（say 的现在分词形式）

sententia（常作 sententiae）格言；警句

word[语] 单词；话语；消息；诺言；命令