He likes to quote proverbs in his compositions. 他喜欢在作文中引用谚语。
The proverb tells us to emulate the industry of the ant. 这格言告诉我们要效法蚂蚁的勤勉。
proverb
[ noun ] a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people <noun.communication>
Proverb \Prov"erb\, n. [OE. proverbe, F. proverbe, from L. proverbium; pro before, for + verbum a word. See {Verb}.] 1. An old and common saying; a phrase which is often repeated; especially, a sentence which briefly and forcibly expresses some practical truth, or the result of experience and observation; a maxim; a saw; an adage. --Chaucer. Bacon.
2. A striking or paradoxical assertion; an obscure saying; an enigma; a parable.
His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb. --John xvi. 29.
3. A familiar illustration; a subject of contemptuous reference.
Thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a by word, among all nations. --Deut. xxviii. 37.
4. A drama exemplifying a proverb.
{Book of Proverbs}, a canonical book of the Old Testament, containing a great variety of wise maxims.
Syn: Maxim; aphorism; apothegm; adage; saw.
Proverb \Prov"erb\, v. t. 1. To name in, or as, a proverb. [R.]
Am I not sung and proverbed for a fool ? --Milton.
2. To provide with a proverb. [R.]
I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase. --Shak.
Proverb \Prov"erb\, v. i. To write or utter proverbs. [R.]
Thought for Today: "Being young is a fault which improves daily." - Swedish proverb.
"Just like the proverb saying that things begun are already half done, let's make rapid progress and fulfill the desires of 70 million people," Kang said.
Thought for Today: "When the flag is unfurled, all reason is in the trumpet." _ Ukrainian proverb.
This essential group for mill buffs publishes a newsletter which includes a regular list of mills for sale. An Italian proverb says: 'Mills and wives are ever wanting.'
"But I'm not tired," he said. "There's an Iranian proverb that says that all people come from one body.
Yes, that is the proverb." The young men nodded and had another pull of rum.
'OUT OF the gourd comes a pony' is a Japanese proverb for something pleasant but extremely unlikely.
"There is a Thai proverb which says: `You put fear into the monkeys by slaughtering the chickens,' " Surin said in an interview. "The prime minister may only be able to go so far, but he is saying: `We should not be fatalistic about corruption.
Thought for today: "While the word is yet unspoken, you are master of it; when once it is spoken, it is master of you." _ Arab proverb.
As to the long term, he says, one must consider the Arab proverb often quoted by one of Shell's chief planners in the 1970s: he who foretells the future lies, even when he is correct.
(Don't listen to secrets _ and don't tell them.) _ Spanish proverb.
Thought for Today: "Your way of giving is more important than what you give." - Vietnamese proverb.
"There's an old Spanish proverb," he says: "'What the wise man does in the beginning, the fool does in the end.'"
"Yes." "It is terrible, isn't it?" Rocha grunted. "This is the way things are," he said. "I remember a proverb: The blame lies not only with the ax, but the tree as well.
It provides a suitable stage for the theatre of disaster and, after all, the country has a proverb which runs: 'A rio revuelto ganancia de pescadores' - troubled waters are the fisherman's gain. Troubled waters dominated.
Najib quoted an Afghan proverb, "May your way be safe and your dishes tasty," in seeing off the Soviet convoy, which faced the danger of guerrilla attacks on the 200-mile, three-day trip through rugged terrain to the Soviet border.
There ought to be a Norwegian proverb to describe Garbarek's music along the lines of 'cold notes, warm heart'. As a means of thawing out, choose Don Pullen's African-Brazilian Connection and Ode To Life (Blue Note 0777 7 8923329).
As an Arab proverb puts it: "Kiss the hand you cannot bite."