dictated 的 3 个定义
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.
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.
- an authoritative order or command.
- a guiding or governing principle, requirement, etc.: to follow the dictates of one's conscience.
dictated 近义词
command; give instructions
read out for the record
更多dictated例句
- 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?