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sententious
[senˈtenʃəs] [senˈtenʃəs]

  • adj. 简洁精炼的;警句的,富于格言的

英英释义

sententious [ sen'tenʃəs ]

  • adj.
    • abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing

      "too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation"

    • concise and full of meaning

      "the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams"

      同义词: pithy

以上来源于: WordNet

 柯林斯英汉双解大词典 

sententious /sɛnˈtɛnʃəs/

  • 1. 

    ADJ characterized by or full of aphorisms, terse pithy sayings, or axioms 金玉良言的

同近义词同根词

词根: sententious

adv.

sententiously 简洁地

双语例句权威例句

  • Sententious sage! So it is: but I swear by my household gods not to abuse it.

    善用格言的圣人!就是这么回事,的名义发誓,决不滥用。

    youdao

  • Generally his ideas were expressed in brief sententious phrase, spoken in low voice.

    发表意见总是柔和的声音简短句子

    youdao

  • That message, often delivered in sententious, near messianic tones, had little appeal.

    这些信息通常警世名言,接近救世主的语气发出,却鲜有吸引力。

    youdao

更多双语例句
  • On the back of the package you will soon find his sententious statements about exercise.

    FORBES: Pepsi's New Challenge

  • Much of his early poetry is sententious, a poetry written with designs upon its readers which strives above all to be morally useful.

    ECONOMIST: English letters

  • With Micah Lewensohn as a sententious professor, a Moses without tablets.

    NEWYORKER: Footnote

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