axiom

noun
🔊/ˈæksiəm/
🔊/ˈæksiəm/
(formal)
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  1. a rule or principle that most people believe to be true公理
    • the old axiom that you can only succeed through hard work你只能通过努力才能成功的古老公理
    Word Originlate 15th cent.: from French axiome or Latin axioma, from Greek axiōma ‘what is thought fitting’, from axios ‘worthy’.