英 [ˈiːdɪkt] 美 [ˈiːdɪkt]
n. 法令；布告
复数edicts
edict /ˈiːdɪkt/ TEM8
可数名词 An edict is a command or instruction given by someone in authority. 命令; 指令
He issued an edict that none of his writings be destroyed.
他下了一道命令：他写的所有东西都不得毁掉。
布告
... edible 可食用的 edict 布告 edification 教诲 ...
... declaration 宣言 edict 法令 public statement 公开声明 ...
... contradiction 矛盾 edict 颁布法令 verdict 裁决 ...
He issued an edict that none of his writings be destroyed.
他下了一道命令：他写的所有东西都不得毁掉。
With the edict in mind, we went back to the drawing board.
记着这条命令，我们回到了制图板。
Once the legal precedent was in place, an obscure 1789 edict comes into play.
一旦司法程序启动，一个模糊的1789法令将被付诸实践。
Twenty years ago, Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomenei issued a fatwa, or religious edict, calling on the faithful to kill author Salman Rushdie, a British citizen, over his book The Satanic Verses.
VOA : standard.2009.07.02
So, if we want to get more magnesium into the marketplace at an affordable price, not by government edict, what do we have to do?
所以如果我们想把更多的镁,投诸市场，并让它保持在一个不太昂贵的价格，而且不靠政府法令，我们应该怎样做？
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He is under some kind of divine edict and it is precisely his devotion to this divine command, to this particular kind of calling that has led him to neglect his worldly affairs.
他深受某种,神明勒令的指示,也确是他对神明指示，对这种特殊召唤的虔诚,引导他忽视身旁的世俗杂事。
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At the same time al-Arabiya TV reported that Grand Ayatollah Yousef Sanei, who is a reformist cleric, had issued a religious edict proclaiming that Mr.Ahmedinejad was "not the president and that it is forbidden to cooperate with his government."
VOA : standard.2009.06.14
And lo, it all came to pass, even though there's no federal edict to do this.
Point No. 2 is that Mayer clearly has issued this edict to send a signal.
The edict has been routinely ignored and continues to be ignored to this day.