adage

英 ['?d?d?] 美['?d?d?]

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復數:?adages;

adage: 愛的句（大家喜愛的句子）

adage 格言

前綴ad-, 去，往。詞根ag, 做。催人奮進的話。

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ?