gnomic
gnomic 英 [ˈnəʊmɪk] 美 [ˈnoʊmɪk]
adj. 含格言的；精辟的
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- adj. 含格言的；精辟的
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1. IN FRANCE railway crossings are adorned with a small lesson for a life of gnomic brevity .
法国许多铁路的交叉路口都配有一些警示标牌，上面书写着短小精辟的人生格言。
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2. He added a gnomic proviso: He wished that only those letters "having bearing on my work" be printed.
他言辞精炼地附加了一个限制性条款：希望只出版“与我的作品有关的信”。
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3. At this low ebb, his hero Cantona begins to magically appear to offer him gnomic advice, like an aphoristic life coach.
在人生低谷，他的英雄偶像简东拿奇妙地出现在他眼前，给他励激说话，恍如一名常常说励志说话的生命教官。
- gnomic (adj.) "full of instructive sayings," 1784, from French gnomique (18c.) and directly from Late Latin gnomicus "concerned with maxims, didactic," from Greek gnomikos, from gnome "a means of knowing, a mark, token; the mind (as the organ of knowing), thought, judgment, intelligence; (one's) mind, will, purpose; a judgment, opinion; maxim, the opinion of wise men," from root of gignoskein "to come to know," from PIE root *gno- "to know." Gnomical is attested from 1610s.
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