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maxim

/mak-sim/US // ˈmæk sɪm //UK // (ˈmæksɪm) //

格言,座右铭,名言,座右铭是

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an expression of a general truth or principle, especially an aphoristic or sententious one: the maxims of La Rochefoucauld.
    • : a principle or rule of conduct.

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Examples

  • The first day filming with Cardin involved a sit-down interview inside the restaurant Maxim’s, which is owned by the designer.

  • He took us up to that Art Nouveau museum that was on the top floor of Maxim’s and walked us through his whole private collection.

  • Now, it seems some of those CEOs will seek to apply the maxim “never let a good crisis go to waste”.

  • Leonard Lauder’s often critiqued “lipstick effect,” maxim she added, which suggests that women will buy cosmetics throughout a recession.

  • The maxim that a company’s customers are its best marketers is truer now than ever before at General Mills.

  • As the Latin maxim puts it: De gustibus non est disputandum.

  • He should have stuck to his own maxim: march separately and fight together.

  • Her book, for example, does not discuss her buzzed-about, scantily clad Maxim photo shoot from last year, and so neither do we.

  • And now one of the nastiest men in Russia, Maxim Martsinkevich, has been sentenced to five years in prison.

  • The maxim proved true: Necessity is the mother of invention.

  • I, therefore, deliver it as a maxim, that whoever desires the character of a proud man ought to conceal his vanity.

  • And the maxim of laissez faire became the last word of social wisdom.

  • "It's dogged as does it," is not only the maxim of agricultural labourers in remote country districts.

  • From the earliest days great commanders have rubbed in the maxim, "If you attack, attack with all your force."

  • They have a living faith in the potency of the Horse-Guards, and in the maxim that "Safe bind is sure find."