英 [dɪkˈteɪt] 美 [ˈdɪkteɪt]
v. 命令，规定；影响，支配；口述，使听写
n. 命令，规定
复数dictates
第三人称单数dictates
现在分词dictating
过去式dictated
过去分词dictated
dictate // CET4 TEM4 [ dictating dictated dictates ]
及物动词 If you dictate something, you say or read it aloud for someone else to write down. 口授; 使听写
Sheldon writes every day of the week, dictating his novels in the morning.
谢尔登每天都进行创作，在上午口述他的小说。
及物动词 If someone dictates to someone else, they tell them what they should do or can do. 指示; 命令
What right has one country to dictate the environmental standards of another?
一个国家有什么权利规定另一个国家的环境标准？
What gives them the right to dictate to us what we should eat?
是什么给他们权利来规定我们该吃什么？
及物动词 If one thing dictates another, the first thing causes or influences the second thing. 导致; 影响
The film's budget dictated a tough schedule.
该影片的预算决定了紧张的拍摄进度。
Of course, a number of factors will dictate how long an apple tree can survive.
当然，一棵苹果树能存活多久是由许多因素决定的。
及物动词 You say that logic or common sense dictates that a particular thing is the case when you believe strongly that it is the case and that logic or common sense will cause other people to agree. (逻辑或常识) 使人相信
Logic dictates that our ancestors could not have held a yearly festival until they figured what a year was.
依照逻辑推论，我们的祖先在弄清1年是什么意思之前，不可能举行过每年一度的节庆。
可数名词 Dictates are principles or rules which you consider to be extremely important. 原则; 规定
We have followed the dictates of our consciences and have done our duty.
我们凭良心做事，尽了我们的职责。
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... diagnose vt. 诊断，评判 dictate v. 口授，口述；命令，支配 disable vt. 丧失能力(Ability)，伤残 ...
... dictate v.口授;(使)听写;指令,指示,命令; remnant n.剩余(物),零料,遗迹 shear v.剪,修剪 ...
... Pantone Color Institute： 彩通色彩研究所 dictate： 支配；口述；命令，口授，听写；命令 undertone： 底色、薄层色；低音；低声；底色薄层背光平视 ...
... dictate v.口授;(使)听写;指令,指示,命令; remnant n.剩余(物),零料,遗迹 shear v.剪,修剪 ...
I've got a long report I must dictate.
我拿到了一份我必须要口述的很长的报告。
The choice that does this is "dictate".
做到这一点的选择是“命令”。
What right do they have to dictate how we live our lives?
他们有什么权利强行规定我们该怎样生活？
"I believe Washington can't and shouldn't dictate a policy agenda for Indian country.
VOA : special.2009.11.13
She explains that nature, of course, wants us to / "live according to her sober laws / and holy dictate of spare Temperance."
她解释说，自然当然希望我们,“根绝她审慎的法律/,和神圣的有关节制的规定来生活“
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And there are various forces that play in the nucleus that will dictate when this will be stable and when it won't be.They isolated it, but it decays very quickly on the order of microseconds Lifetime on the order of microseconds.
在原子核中有很多种力,都会产生作用，当条件是稳定的,还有当它不是的时候，它们提取出来，但是它会以微秒的速度衰变,生命只有几微秒长。
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"Memorial should not dictate to us what we do in our own time, off the time clock."
VOA : standard.2010.02.18
In what he called a departure from the Bush administration, Brennan said President Obama strongly believes that the United States can no longer let the "war on terror" dictate the nation's international agenda.
VOA : standard.2009.08.06
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If Europe is to become a centralized state, it will do so by evolution, not dictate.
That is, neither allows its initial or current core success to dictate what it does next.