motto• The Mortimer family motto is inscribedabove the door -- 'Humilitas'.• Try before you buy is a good motto.• "All my life, " said Sir Humphrey, "my motto has been 'aim high'."• Mind my own business, that's my motto.• But our motto is win with class, lose with class.• Brevity was always Britten's motto, as well as Verdi's.• The school's motto was 'Work hard and play hard'.• "Be prepared" is the motto of the Boy Scouts.• Peterremembered the motto he had chosen for the Emperor's LuckCasino in Emor.• That's the motto of car salesmen who have put up a gagboard to amusemotorists.• In a rare public statement, the toughundercoversoldiers - whose motto is Who Dares Wins - have apologised.
ADJECTIVE | VERB + MOTTO | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤company, family, school, state (NAmE) 公司信條;家訓;校訓;州座右銘➤unofficial非官方座右銘➤new新座右銘VERB + MOTTO➤have有座右銘◇Surfers have a motto: 'Life's a beach and then you die'.衝浪者有條座右銘 - “人生是岸,衝上就完。”➤become成為座右銘◇That phrase 'to the last man' became the motto of the 135th Infantry.“戰鬥到最後一個人”成為第 135 步兵團的座右銘。➤adopt, have sth as, use sth as以⋯為座右銘;把⋯當作座右銘◇Let's use that as our motto.咱們把那句話用作座右銘吧。➤coin杜撰格言◇He coined the motto 'Make love, not war'.他創造了這句口號:“要做愛,不要作戰。”PREPOSITION➤motto for⋯的座右銘◇a good motto for gardeners適合園丁的座右銘