• n. 格言，諺語；箴言

前綴ad-, 去，往。詞根ag, 做。催人奮進的話。

adage

adage: [16] Adage was borrowed, via French, from Latin adagium ‘maxim, proverb’. This seems to have been formed from a variant of aio ‘I say’ plus the prefīx ad- ‘to’. In the 16th and 17th centuries an alternative version, adagy, existed.

adage (n.)

"brief, familiar proverb," 1540s, Middle French adage, from Latin adagium "adage, proverb," apparently from adagio, from ad- "to" (see ad-) + *agi-, root of aio "I say," from PIE *ag- "to speak." But Tucker thinks the second element is rather ago "set in motion, drive, urge."

1. The adage " Trade is better than aid " is clearly of great relevance to agriculture.

“ 貿易勝于援助, ” 這一格言對于農業顯然是十分中肯的.

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2. But the old adage that men grow into office has not proved true in my experience.

但是,根據我的經驗,人們所謂的工作崗位造就人材這句古話并不正確.

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3. Answering probably an adage: The day fails the person wishes.

或許正應了一句老話: 天不遂人愿.

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4. Han Jia , I think both of us have followed this adage.

韓佳, 我覺得我們倆就是這么做的.

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5. You've heard the adage many times about turning lemons into lemonade, right ?

相信你已經聽過這個諺語很多次了吧,是關于把檸檬變成檸檬汽水的, 是 嗎 ?

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