sage
sage 英 [seɪdʒ] 美 [sedʒ]
n. 圣人；贤人；哲人 adj. 明智的；贤明的；审慎的
名词复数:sages 比较级:sager 最高级:sagest
- Use the word sage for someone or something wise and judicious. Thanks to the sage advice of your friend, you didn't write your teacher an angry e-mail!
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- n. 圣人；贤人；哲人
- adj. 明智的；贤明的；审慎的
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1. Remember when web sites were a new concept and the sage advice to print your web address everywhere you print your phone number?
记住，如果网站的内容是新概念的，明智的建议就是只要印有你电话号码的地方，就印上你的网址。
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2. How could my sage advice be “put down” so quickly?
我明智的建议怎么能这么快就被放到一边去？
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3. " Montaigne gives a similar example, saying that if you put a sage on the edge of a precipice, "he must shudder like a child.
蒙田举了个类似的例子，说如果你把一个圣人放在悬崖边上，“他一定像个孩子一样发抖”。
- sage (adj.) "wise," c. 1300 (late 12c. as a surname), from Old French sage "wise, knowledgeable, learned; shrewd, skillful" (11c.), from Gallo-Roman *sabius, from Vulgar Latin *sapius, from Latin sapere "have a taste, have good taste, be wise," from PIE root *sap- "to taste" (see sap (n.1)). Meaning "characterized by wisdom" is from 1530s. Related: Sageness.
- sage (n.1) kind of herb (Salvia officinalis), early 14c., from Old French sauge (13c.), from Latin salvia, from salvus "healthy" (from PIE root *sol- "whole, well-kept"). So called for its healing or preserving qualities (it was used to keep teeth clean and relieve sore gums, and boiled in water to make a drink to alleviate arthritis). In English folklore, sage, like parsley, is said to grow best where the wife is dominant. In late Old English as salvie, directly from Latin. Compare German Salbei, also from Latin.
- sage (n.2) "man of profound wisdom," mid-14c., from sage (adj.). Originally applied to the Seven Sages -- Thales, Solon, Periander, Cleobulus, Chilon, Bias, and Pittacus.
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