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motto

noun
🔊/ˈmɒtəʊ/
🔊/ˈmɑːtəʊ/
(plural mottoes, mottos)
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  1. a short sentence or phrase that expresses the aims and beliefs of a person, a group, an institution, etc. and is used as a rule of behaviour座右铭；格言；箴言
    • The school's motto is: ‘Duty, Honour, Country’.这所学校的校训是：尽责、知耻、爱国。🔊🔊
    • ‘Live and let live.’ That's my motto.“待人宽如待己”，这是我的座右铭。🔊🔊
    Extra Examples
    • Let's use that as our motto.咱们把那句话用作座右铭吧。
    • Surfers have a motto—‘Life's a beach and then you die’.冲浪者有条座右铭 － “人生是岸，冲上就完。”
    • a good motto for gardeners适合园丁的座右铭
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • company
    • family
    • school
    • …
    verb + motto
    • have
    • become
    • adopt
    • …
    preposition
    • motto for
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    Word Originlate 16th cent.: from Italian, ‘word’.