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

• It was one of father's maxims never to look a gift-horse in the mouth.
  父亲的箴言之一是决不对收到的礼物挑毛病。
• These maxims, without any statute giving them force or operation, frequently control the effect and nullify the language of wills.
  这些原则无需制定法赋予其效力或执行力，却能常常规制遗嘱的有效与无效。
• 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。
• And Will it build goodwill and better friendship? are two of the maxims on its website and walls.
  在公司网站和办公室的墙壁上写有这样两条准则：这对有关各方都是公平的吗？，这有助于传播善意并增进友谊吗？
• 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。
• I was afraid of the bias of those worldly maxims, which she has been too much used to hear.
  我担心她听惯了那些世俗的伦理，难免会产生偏见。
• However, deliberate floutings or non-observances of the principle and its maxims will lead to particularized conversational implicatures.
  但是对合作原则和子准则的故意违背却会便产生特殊会话含义。
• Witticisms, maxims, dicta, proverbs, and aphorisms each inhabit a different world.
  妙语、座右铭、名言、谚语及格言等各自展现不同领域。
• "The bigger they come, the harder they fall" was one of her favorite maxims.
  “爬得越高，摔得越重”是她最喜欢的格言之一。
• 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。