adage
adage 英 [ˈædɪdʒ] 美 [ˈædɪdʒ]
n. 格言，谚语；箴言
名词复数:adages
- An adage is a saying. Moms and dads love adages such as "early to bed, early to rise" and "an apple a day keeps the doctor away."
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- n. 格言，谚语；箴言
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1. You know the old adage.
你们知道这个古老的谚语。
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2. An old business adage is that businesses do not plan to fail, they just fail to plan!
有一句古老的格言就是：没有计划要失败的事业，只有没计划好的事业。
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3. I never dieted but I realized early on that the old adage “eating for two” is really a bunch of the hooey.
我从未节食，但我意识到早先的古老的格言：为了两个人而吃（意指有了身孕）真是一派胡言。
- adage (n.) "brief, familiar proverb," 1540s, Middle French adage (16c.), from Latin adagium "adage, proverb," apparently a collateral form of adagio, from ad "to" (see ad-) + *agi-, root of aio "I say," which is perhaps cognate with Armenian ar-ac "proverb," asem "to say." But some find this unlikely and suggest the second element might be related to agein "set in motion, drive, urge" (from PIE root *ag- "to drive, draw out or forth, move"). Related: Adagial.
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