- 1格言、老話。和「諺語」很近；adage 書面氣稍重一點。
An adage is a short, well-known sentence that people repeat because it seems to tell a truth about how life goes. Think of lines like “Better safe than sorry” or “Where there’s a will, there’s a way.” English also has saying, , and maxim; they sit in the same neighbourhood. Adage sounds a little more like a book than “saying,” so you meet it more in writing than in chat. It is not a long story, and it is not an idiom with a hidden picture (like “kick the bucket”). It is the kind of line a might nod at. Though actually, people sometimes pin the word on any sentence, even a new one, or one that is only half-wise. The tidy dictionary wants “old and wise”; real speakers stretch it. One more messy truth: it is not the music word , even though the letters look friendly. This adage came into English from French, from Latin adagium, already meaning a saying.
組成Borrowed from Middle French adage, from Latin adagium, a saying.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
adagenoun詞源 1/ˈæd.ɪd͡ʒ/
- 1
An old saying which has obtained credit by long use.
- According to an old adage, oysters are best in months containing the letter R.
- He describes the operation thus: "The heavy ram employed to impart the finishing strokes, hoisted up with double purchase and snail's pace to the summit of the Piling Engine, and then falling down like a thunderbolt on the head of the devoted timber, driving it perhaps a single half inch in to the stratum below, is well calculated to put to the test the virtue of patience, while it illustrates the old adage of—slow and sure."
- 2
An old saying which has been overused or considered a cliché; a trite maxim.
- Like the poore Cat i’ th’ Addage.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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