maxim
maxim 英 [ˈmæksɪm] 美 [ˈmæksɪm]
n. 格言；准则；座右铭
名词复数:maxims
- A maxim is a succinct formulation of a principle, rule, or basic truth about life. Usually clever, maxims are like great sayings everybody knows. Ben Franklin is the author of many, including "Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."
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- n. 格言；准则；座右铭
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1. Please lay the maxim to your heart.
请把此格言记在心里。
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2. We would be her fans even without these achievements though, especially after she appeared on maxim and Playboy.
即使没有这些成绩我们仍是她的粉丝，尤其是她上了《格言》和《花花公子》杂志以后。
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3. He gave several formulations of this law, the first of which was ‘act by that maxim which you can at the same time will as a universal law’.
对于该定律，他给出了几条简短陈述，第一条是“要只按照你同时能够愿意它成为一个普遍法则的那个准则去行动”。
- Maxim single-barreled water-cooled machine gun, 1885, named for inventor, U.S.-born British engineer Sir Hiram S. Maxim (1840-1916).
- maxim (n.) "precept, principle," early 15c., from Middle French maxime, from Late Latin maxima, shortened from phrases such as maxima propositio, maxima sententarium "axiom," literally "greatest premise, greatest among propositions" (one which is general and absolute), from fem. of maximus "greatest," from PIE *mag-samo-, superlative form of root *meg- "great."
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