axiom
/ˈæksɪəm/noun
1- a statement or proposition which is regarded as being established, accepted, or self-evidently true格言; 公理; 自明之理：
the axiom that sport builds character.
运动塑造性格这条格言。
1.1
- chiefly Mathematics a statement or proposition on which an abstractly defined structure is based【主数】公理。
词源
late 15th cent.: from French axiome or Latin axioma, from Greek axiōma 'what is thought fitting'， from axios 'worthy'.