aphorism 的定义
- a terse saying embodying a general truth, or astute observation, as “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely”.
aphorism 近义词
saying expressing a belief, often true
更多aphorism例句
- Contrary to what the current culture of “hacks,” quick fixes, and aphorisms like move fast and break things would have you think, progress is often slow, and that’s okay.
- Over the rest of his life, the list — a mixture of proverbs, aphorisms, jokes and clever quotations — grew into a lengthy compendium known as “Rumsfeld’s Rules.”
- As an oft-quoted statistical aphorism goes, “All models are wrong, but some are useful.”
- An American football coach tasked with running a British Premier League soccer team, Ted meets fans and players’ jeers with can-do aphorisms and basic human decency.
- He’s in his late 70s so he often speaks in aphorisms straight out of Mayberry USA.
- We must disabuse ourselves of this perhaps half-ironic but still telling aphorism.
- He left the crowd with a Greek aphorism—“to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.”
- Thus my aphorism of the week: trying to contain damage only does more damage.
- He defines Dynamic Inaction with one pithy aphorism: “When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.”
- He utters the aphorism in immaculate French, and judging from an overheard phone call, his Italian is almost as good.
- The well-worn aphorism of the Frenchman, “History repeats itself,” was about to assert itself.
- Part of the first aphorism of Hippocrates is—Ὁ βίος βραχύς, ἡ δὲ τέχνη μακρή.
- "Hit's the pore house fer a cow hand," was his terse aphorism on the subject, and Landy had never seen a "fitten" poor house.
- Paragraphs sometimes close with a shorter statement of the proposition, a sort of aphorism or epigram.
- For each or either of these extra-scriptural Articles of Faith the preceding Aphorism supplies a safe criterion.