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dictated

/verb dik-teyt, dik-teyt; noun dik-teyt/US // verb ˈdɪk teɪt, dɪkˈteɪt; noun ˈdɪk teɪt //

听写的,听话的,听写了,听命于人

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
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    dic·tat·ed, dic·tat·ing.

    • : to say or read aloud for another person to transcribe or for a machine to record: to dictate some letters to a secretary.
    • : to prescribe or lay down authoritatively or peremptorily; command unconditionally: to dictate peace terms to a conquered enemy.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    dic·tat·ed, dic·tat·ing.

    • : to say or read aloud something to be written down by a person or recorded by a machine.
    • : to give orders.
n.名词 noun
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    • : an authoritative order or command.
    • : a guiding or governing principle, requirement, etc.: to follow the dictates of one's conscience.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbcommand; give instructions

Examples

  • In the long run, this might end up being more feasible for the IOC than clinging to some maximalist and—let’s face it—illusory dictate of total neutrality.

  • Public pressure soon dictated the need for a formal White House reaction to the Iran revelation.

  • All of these rules grew organically from the community rather than being dictated downward by a cen­tral authority.

  • The remainder is “peculiar” motion: movement of galaxies as dictated by the presence of matter nearby.

  • I dictated a return note thanking him for the thoughtful gift and encouraging note.

  • Power in Washington was dictated by seniority for generations.

  • David Arden, as he promised, had dictated to him in outline the awful case he had massed against his client.

  • If we could find the one witness, the one who was present when the old man dictated his will at the last!

  • High reasons of State may be presumed to have dictated the Government policy.

  • According to Moréri there were in his day seventy systems of chronology founded on the history dictated by God himself.

  • How, indeed, can it be believed that God dictated false dates?