proverb 的 2 个定义
- a short popular saying, usually of unknown and ancient origin, that expresses effectively some commonplace truth or useful thought; adage; saw.
- a wise saying or precept; a didactic sentence.
- a person or thing that is commonly regarded as an embodiment or representation of some quality; byword.
- Bible. a profound saying, maxim, or oracular utterance requiring interpretation.
- to utter in the form of a proverb.
- to make the subject of a proverb.
- to make a byword of.
proverb 近义词
saying referring to common fact, knowledge
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- These are not, contrary to what proverbs and conventional wisdom might suggest, rocks and stones, but living entities.
- I think of the proverbs we have around second times—second choice, second place, second fiddle, eternal second.
- Look for efficient pathsAccording to an old proverb, “There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same.”
- A consulting firm based in the United States paid its taxes there, while a factory based in Beijing would render unto China what is China’s, to modernize the old biblical proverb.
- This work takes a page from President Ronald Reagan, who liked to repeat the Russian proverb “trust but verify.”
- In the case of Kudo-kai case boss Nomura, the appropriate Japanese proverb appears to be: “The mouth is the gate of misfortune.”
- The catch phrase, which Reagan borrowed from a Russian proverb, was “trust but verify.”
- The Latin proverb “Times Change and We Change With Them” used to be memorized by generations of students of Latin.
- The rich,” according to a Spanish proverb, “laugh carefully.
- The variety of taste in snuff is accounted for by the proverb, "So many men to so many noses."
- M. Mon here quotes a Latin proverb:—'Qui plus castigat, plus amore ligat.'
- Behold every one that useth a common proverb, shall use this against thee, saying: As the mother was, so also is her daughter.
- There is an obvious allusion in this line to the common proverb—'As fain as fowl of a fair morrow,' which is quoted in the Kn.
- This is only another form of a proverb which also occurs as 'Well fights he who well flies.'