A usually short narrative making an edifying or cautionary point and often employing as characters animals that speak and act like human beings. 寓言一种通常短小的故事,用来表示启发或谨慎的观点,常利用说话或有人的行为的动物为角色
A cautionary note: The body posesses exquisite systems which accurately regulate body sodium. 谨记:人体拥有精确调整体钠的精密系统。
Invited to compare the Chelsea of2004-5 with the great teams of the past, Souness sounded a cautionary note. 在被邀请将本赛季的切尔西和前记录保持队伍进行比较时,索内斯出言谨慎。
cautionary
[ adj ]
warding off
<adj.all> the swastika...a very ancient prophylactic symbol occurring among all peoples
serving to warn
<adj.all> shook a monitory finger at him an exemplary jail sentence
Cautionary \Cau"tion*a*ry\, a. 1. Conveying a caution, or warning to avoid danger; as, cautionary signals.
2. Given as a pledge or as security.
He hated Barnevelt, for his getting the cautionary towns out of his hands. --Bp. Burnet.
3. Wary; cautious. [Obs.] --Bacon.
Mayor Marion Barry's arrest on a drug charge could do some good as a cautionary tale for white collar drug users, especially government officials who might believe they'll never get caught, criminologists suggest.
Yet there have been some cautionary signs.
The dollar fell on a combination of warnings by West German officials, a cautionary Bank of England report on the U.S. trade deficit and profit-taking.
He added that Harper's published the Cavendish memoirs as a "cautionary tale" to alert Americans to secrecy moves by the Reagan administration. "Believe me there is no cause for smugness in America," he told reporters.
Moreover, experience of illiquidity with other irredeemable instruments - such as subordinated floating rate notes issued by banks in the mid-1980s - should prove cautionary.
Adherence to cautionary rules and prudential doctrines can mitigate this type of conflict.
Still, the timing of the contract talks and the severe price cut that appears likely offer a cautionary tale for other big sports leagues.
But he attaches one cautionary note to his optimistic view _ that the Fed refrains from giving "another jerk on the reins" by tightening credit.
Some restaurant operators suggest weather forecasters simply add a few more cautionary phrases to their delivery, and refrain from "sensationalized" pronouncements.
The Tokyo Stock Exchange and the Securities Dealers Association of Japan have sent cautionary letters about insider trading to exchange-listed companies as well as Japanese and foreign securities firms, officials said.
Lawyers said some objections were filed as a cautionary measure to protect future interests, while others challenge the ban on future lawsuits against former Drexel officials.
He tells a cautionary tale about the Maronite Christians of Lebanon. 'I have a story, which you may know, the story of the Lebanon.
In keeping with that belief, he and associate Carla O'Dell have issued some cautionary advice.
This cautionary note did not disguise the fact that the ANC, for now at least, has declined to use sport as a weapon.
"When you have IBM going down, it causes a broad spectrum of investors, traders and portfolio managers to adopt a more cautionary stance," said A.C. Moore, director of research at Argus Securities.
He reiterated the cautionary stance taken by Reagan administration officials who began the dialogue in the last days before President Bush took office.
But it can be done. Finally, a cautionary tale, also from Ireland.
Just before Easter, magistrates issued a cautionary warrant against Mr Giorgio Garuzzo, Fiat's chief operating officer and the most senior executive so far involved.
The nation's commercial banks enjoyed record profits in the July-September quarter, but a top regulator sounded a cautionary note Monday about an increase in bad loans and rising bank involvement in leveraged corporate buyouts.
But the US experience spins a cautionary tale.
Last month, magistrates issued a cautionary warrant against Mr Giorgio Garuzzo, its chief operating officer.