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読み方 きんげん

形容詞相当語句

Stern; severe; austere

• 謹厳剛直の士
  He is a man of austere and inflexible character―a man of severe and rigid principles―a Cato.

読み方 きんげん

名詞

The golden rule （“Do to others as you would have others do to you”）; a maxim; an aphorism

用例

• 金言に従う
  to act upon a maxim

• 「金はあれば心配、無ければ苦労」とは金言である
  It is justly said that “To have gold is to be in fear, and to want it to be in sorrow.”