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adage n.格言；谚语；古话 (1) 这句格言从我青年时代起就给了我真正的启示。(2) 差不多在150年之后，这个变化了的谚语一直被引用。 Like a proverb, an adage can be true or not so much. It's a folksy saying that's been passed around for so long that it doesn't even matter if it's true anymore. Adages can be wise and wisecracking, such as this quote from Alice Roosevelt Longworth: "I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development." There's a Book of Proverbs in the Bible, but adages can show up anywhere, even cross-stitched on a pillow.

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英 ['ædɪdʒ] 美 ['ædɪdʒ] (1) The adage really enlightened me since my youth.(2) Nearly 150 years later, variations of this adage are still quoted. An adage is a saying, a noun that hasn't traveled far from its Latin root, aio meaning "I say." Moms and dads love adages such as "early to bed early to rise" and "an apple a day keeps the doctor away." 1[N-COUNT 可数名词]谚语；格言 An adage is something which people often say and which expresses a general truth about some aspect of life.   [OLD-FASHIONED 过时]...the old adage, 'Every baby brings its own love'.那句古老的谚语，“每个婴儿生来就带着爱”

英语单词	adage
英美音标	英 ['ædɪdʒ] 美 ['ædɪdʒ]
中文释义	n.格言；谚语；古话
英语例句	(1) The adage really enlightened me since my youth. (2) Nearly 150 years later, variations of this adage are still quoted.
中文例句	(1) 这句格言从我青年时代起就给了我真正的启示。 (2) 差不多在150年之后，这个变化了的谚语一直被引用。
vocabulary简明	An adage is a saying, a noun that hasn't traveled far from its Latin root, aio meaning "I say." Moms and dads love adages such as "early to bed early to rise" and "an apple a day keeps the doctor away."
vocabulary扩展	Like a proverb, an adage can be true or not so much. It's a folksy saying that's been passed around for so long that it doesn't even matter if it's true anymore. Adages can be wise and wisecracking, such as this quote from Alice Roosevelt Longworth: "I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development." There's a Book of Proverbs in the Bible, but adages can show up anywhere, even cross-stitched on a pillow.
柯林斯解释	1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]谚语；格言 An adage is something which people often say and which expresses a general truth about some aspect of life. [OLD-FASHIONED 过时] ...the old adage, 'Every baby brings its own love'. 那句古老的谚语，“每个婴儿生来就带着爱”

Adage True 英 ædɪdʒ] 美 ædɪdʒ N.格言；谚语；古话 Enlightened Youth