Epigram is a half-truth so stated as to irritate the person who believes the other half.(警句是一半的真理,讲一半以便相信另一半的人。)
After a little while, the English teacher turned off an epigram.(过了一会儿,英文老师作出了一首讽刺诗。)
Murphy's law is an adage or epigram that is typically stated as: Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.(墨菲定律是一个格言或警句,通常表示为:有可能出错的地方定会出错。)
Ancient Chinese "Guanzhen" is a kind of epigram of administration.(中国古代官箴是以一种劝诫文体表达出来的“为官之道”。)
He fashioned no stilted epigram.(他不追求夸张的警句。)
But as a rule the terseness and point of the maxim approximate to the modern epigram.(但总的来说格言的简洁凝炼是与现代格言警句相类似的。)
Sunddly a image or epigram light up the whole mood.(一个突如其来的形象或警句突然把意境照亮。)
His gift for epigram is, indeed, such as to make us long for an occasional stretch of leisurely commonplace.(他对警句的天赋,确实让我们从平凡中领悟到不平凡的意义。)
The only province therefore for this kind of wit, is epigram, or those little occasional poems that in their own nature are nothing else but a tissue of epigrams.(这种机智唯一使用范畴就是隽语,或是那些短小临时创作的诗歌本质上就是一些警句。)
A motif printed on the glazed concrete surfaces of the corridors of the college plays the role of "epigram-graffiti."(在学校走廊光滑的混凝土表面印刷的图案起到了校训的作用。)