dictum
美 [?d?kt?m] 
英 ['d?kt?m]
詞形變化
復數：dictums 復數：dicta 同義詞
英漢雙解
1. | 名言；格言a statement that expresses sth that people believe is always true or should be followed |
英漢解釋
英英解釋
例句
Watch sellers employ a logical Italian dictum: a well-dressed man owns at least three timepieces.
手表經銷商流傳的一句意大利格言不無道理：穿著得體的男人至少擁有三塊表。
He may profitably recall the dictum of a recent essayist that "there is no limit to the mercy of God. "
他也許會回想起近來一位評論家的格言“上帝的同情永遠不為過。”
The rest of the film bears out the horror-movie dictum that nervous young women are always right.
電影的剩余部分證實了這部恐怖電影的格言：不安的年青女人總是對的。
Yet Kissinger succeeded in defying an old Washington dictum that you can have in the capital visibility or influence, but not both.
在華盛頓有一條傳統格言：要么拋頭露面，要么得勢弄權，二者不可兼得。基辛格卻公然蔑視這種傳統。
His own defiant dictum, that he changed his mind when the facts changed, has been on the lips of current policy-makers.
他那目中無人的座右銘——想法隨實際情況的改變而改變——一直掛在當今的政策制定者嘴邊。
He was made to order for Bethune, who now invoked the famous Pater dictum with a vengeance.
他正合白求恩的口味，白求恩徹頭徹尾應用上了他的名言。
The most fundamental change has been the rejection of Aristotle's dictum that true tragedy can only depict those with power and high status.
最根本的改變，一直拒絕亞里士多德的格言：真正的悲劇，只能描繪那些與權力和很高的地位。
They might also lift their gloom a little if they recalled the old dictum that crisis brings opportunity as well as risks.
若他們想到“危機同時帶來危險與機遇”這句古語，或可稍加釋懷。
But, as the oft-quoted dictum goes: Politics made him share bed with strange fellows.
但正如名言所說：政治讓人與陌生的家伙同床共枕。
In fact, to paraphrase a well-known dictum, we have an agreement with typesetters: they do not translate, we do not do typesetting.
事實上，可以演繹一條眾所周知的名言，想必排字工人也會同意：“他們不翻譯，我們不排印”。
So much for Deng Xiaoping's dictum that China should keep a low profile and "never take the lead" .
中國深受鄧小平的名言即中國應該冷靜觀察，保持低調，“絕不當頭”的影響已經很久了。
"Don't bore the public with mysterious designs, " Mr. Noorda once said, and he put that dictum into practice.
Noorda先生曾說：“別用神秘的設計讓公眾感覺索然無味”，他把這句格言付諸實踐。
Flat-dwellers shall indorse my dictum that theirs is the only true happiness.
公寓生活是唯一真正的快樂，住公寓的人一定都贊成我的論斷。
But in spite of the dictum of some philosophers man does not accept any arbitrary and absolute limit to his knowable world.
但是盡管有哲學名言，人類仍然不承認個人對世界認知的武斷性和絕對性。
As a dictum, it served him well, but it hardly amounts to a business model.
這個作為謹行的信條還可以（他也因此受益），但是很難成為一種商業模式。
But we need to be reminded of the dictum of Keynes that "money will not manage itself" .
但我們需要謹記凱恩斯的格言：貨幣不會自我管理。
I recalled a favorite dictum of his: man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
我想到了他生前最喜歡的格言：一個人可以被消滅，但不能被打敗。
This is scary stuff to those who swear by Milton Friedman's dictum that "inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon. "
對那些信奉米爾頓·弗里德曼格言的人來說印鈔是件可怕的事情，米爾頓曾說“通貨膨脹在任何時間任何地點都只是金融現象”。
This was also echoed by Deng's dictum : "Free our mind and seek truth from facts. "
這也是與鄧小平的名言相呼應的：“解放思想，實事求是”。
This programme completely ignores Keynes' dictum that states must face crises with counter-measures to support demand.
該計劃完全無視凱恩斯的理論：即政府必須采取支持需求的對策以面對危機。
And so Lady Thatcher's dictum does not seem to apply.
因此撒切爾夫人的格言似乎并不適用。
This famous dictum of Lord Acton is as relevant today as it was when stated in 1887.
阿克頓勛爵（LordActon）的這句著名格言，就像1887年說出時一樣，貼近今日之現實。
There is classical authority for the dictum that "rotten wood cannot be carved. "
有一句古話很有道理：“朽木不可雕也。”
The principle of permanence of form, an arbitrary dictum, could not serve as a solid foundation for algebra.
型的永恒性原理是一種任意的理論，不能作為代數的牢固基礎。
A dictum of the Ancient Greek philosopher Socrates reads: It is wisdom other than knowledge that really brings us pleasure.
古希臘哲人蘇格拉底有句名言：真正帶給我們快樂的是智慧，而不是知識。
But this dictum against paradoxical events causes possible but unlikely events to happen more frequently.
但是，這種禁止悖謬事件的法則卻使合理而不大可能發生的事情更頻繁地發生。
(His famous dictum on keeping a low profile was prescribed afterthe collapse of the former Soviet Union, morethan a decade later).
（他的這句關于韜光養晦的著名宣言隨著十幾年后前蘇聯的解體，成為了明文規定）。
Be thought that "best profit of the personage money meet Jew who does business most even looks upon young fad" as famous dictum aphorism.
被認為最會做生意的猶太人甚至把“年輕時尚人士的錢最好賺”奉為至理格言。
Bagehot's dictum needed updating when the crisis of confidence affected entire markets rather than single banks.
Bagehot的格言有些過時了，尤其是信心的危機影響了整個市場而不再僅僅是獨立的銀行。
It brought to mind Deng Xiaoping's famous dictum that China must "keep a low profile and never take the lead" .
這件事讓我想起了鄧小平的一句名言，中國必須“韜光養晦，絕不當頭”。
But most other politicians adhere to Benjamin Jowett's famous dictum about apologies: never!
但多數政客卻選擇本杰明?喬伊特5（BenjaminJowett）關于道歉的名言：決不！
I would only add to Acton's dictum that discretionary power is even more corrupting than the power embodied in regulations.
要是說對阿克頓勛爵的格言有什么補充的話，我只會說，自由裁量權要比制度中賦予的權利更容易造成腐敗。
Remember the dictum our professor taught us, ' diffidence leads to envy which gives rise to spite.
記住教授告訴我們的名言：‘缺乏自信會導致嫉妒，進而產生怨恨。’
In Lenin's famous dictum, a democratic republic is the ideal political shell for capitalism.
在列寧的名言中，民主共和國是資本主義理想的政治外殼。
They should take as their motto Keynes's dictum that "economics is a moral and not a natural science" .
他們應該把凱恩斯的名言“經濟學是道德科學而不是自然科學”作為座右銘。
Mr Obama even quoted Ronald Reagan and his dictum of "trust but verify" .
為此奧巴馬甚至引用了羅納德·里根的名言：“信任，但要核查。”
More than 200 years ago Benjamin Franklin coined the now famous dictum that equated passing minutes and hours with shillings and pounds.
時間就是金錢。今天大家都耳熟能詳的這句格言，是富蘭克林在200多年前創造的。
Eventually, perhaps soon, the market must obey Mr Micawber's dictum.
最終，也許很快，市場肯定會兌現米考伯的格言。
Ever since, Webster's dictum has been regarded as a principle of international law.
自此，韋伯斯特的正式聲明就被遵為國際法原則。
"All's well that ends well" is the dictum of unanimous common sense.
“結果好就一切都好，”這是我們的常識一致公認的名言。
