apothegm 的定义
- a short, pithy, instructive saying; a terse remark or aphorism.
apothegm 近义词
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更多apothegm例句
- Half an inch taller than Kerry, she fully merited the compliment designed by that trite apothegm, "a fine woman."
- And he quoted with approval the infamous apothegm of Louis the Eleventh: "Qui nescit dissimulare, nescit regnare."
- The trouble with Riderhood's apothegm is that it supplies an endless excuse for not doing it.
- "Les femmes se suivent et se ressemblent toujours," said I, parodying a well-known apothegm.
- This legend reads like a moral apothegm on the increasing value of life as it passes away.