maxims

英 [ˈmæksɪmz]

美 [ˈmæksəmz]

n.  格言; 箴言; 座右铭
maxim的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 信条;格言;箴言
  Amaximis a rule for good or sensible behaviour, especially one in the form of a saying.
  1. I believe in the maxim 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it'.
     我相信这样一条箴言：“不破不修”。

双语例句

• Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.
  好格言是一切美德的胚芽。
• Tennyson is quoted everywhere from books to episodes of the Simpsons, and some of his phrases have become commonly used maxims.
  从书籍到电视剧《辛普森一家》，随处可见丁尼生的语言。他的有些话已经成了格言。
• Maxims about debt that might be prudent for families can be the height of folly for governments.
  适用于家庭的债务格言，对政府而言可能是荒谬绝伦。
• But this test, which must be based on pure, though practical, reason, can only be passed by maxims of the type that allows for analytic deduction.
  但是这个考验，建立的基础必须是纯粹，虽然是实践的理性，只有藉由考虑到分析推理的这种习性，它才能被传递。
• As to your small maxims, your narrow rules, your little prejudices, bundle them off.
  至于你那些无聊的格言，你那些狭隘的准则，你那些可怜的偏见，都给我见鬼去吧。
• What are the four maxims of the CP?
  合作原则下属的四条准则是什么？
• Derived from Confuciuss thinking of "etiquette and filial piety" is a relatively complete system of moral maxims that are rich in conte.
  孔子的“礼孝”思想提出了一套较为全面、内涵丰富的“孝”的伦理准则。
• For the gods have withheld from the barbarians the light of discretion, as that their poetry is not, like ours, full of choice apophthegms and useful maxims, but is all of love and war.
  因为神灵没有赐给外邦人谨慎小心之光，他们的诗歌不像我们的诗歌那样充满精美的箴言和有用的格言，却全是讴歌爱情和战争的。
• Aesop's fables illustrate moral maxims.
  伊索寓言阐明了道德准则。
• He also rejects Kantianism& the identification of universal ethical maxims based on reason and applied to circumstances top down.
  他也反对康德主义，即辨认出建立在理性基础上的普遍伦理原则，并自上而下地应用在具体情景中。