dictum
美 [ˈdɪktəm] 
英 ['dɪktəm]
词形变化
复数：dictums 复数：dicta 同义词
英汉双解
1. | 名言；格言a statement that expresses sth that people believe is always true or should be followed |
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例句
Watch sellers employ a logical Italian dictum: a well-dressed man owns at least three timepieces.
手表经销商流传的一句意大利格言不无道理：穿着得体的男人至少拥有三块表。
He may profitably recall the dictum of a recent essayist that "there is no limit to the mercy of God. "
他也许会回想起近来一位评论家的格言“上帝的同情永远不为过。”
The rest of the film bears out the horror-movie dictum that nervous young women are always right.
电影的剩余部分证实了这部恐怖电影的格言：不安的年青女人总是对的。
Yet Kissinger succeeded in defying an old Washington dictum that you can have in the capital visibility or influence, but not both.
在华盛顿有一条传统格言：要么抛头露面，要么得势弄权，二者不可兼得。基辛格却公然蔑视这种传统。
His own defiant dictum, that he changed his mind when the facts changed, has been on the lips of current policy-makers.
他那目中无人的座右铭——想法随实际情况的改变而改变——一直挂在当今的政策制定者嘴边。
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，白求恩彻头彻尾应用上了他的名言。
The most fundamental change has been the rejection of Aristotle's dictum that true tragedy can only depict those with power and high status.
最根本的改变，一直拒绝亚里士多德的格言：真正的悲剧，只能描绘那些与权力和很高的地位。
They might also lift their gloom a little if they recalled the old dictum that crisis brings opportunity as well as risks.
若他们想到“危机同时带来危险与机遇”这句古语，或可稍加释怀。
But, as the oft-quoted dictum goes: Politics made him share bed with strange fellows.
但正如名言所说：政治让人与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.
事实上，可以演绎一条众所周知的名言，想必排字工人也会同意：“他们不翻译，我们不排印”。
So much for Deng Xiaoping's dictum that China should keep a low profile and "never take the lead" .
中国深受邓小平的名言即中国应该冷静观察，保持低调，“绝不当头”的影响已经很久了。
"Don't bore the public with mysterious designs, " Mr. Noorda once said, and he put that dictum into practice.
Noorda先生曾说：“别用神秘的设计让公众感觉索然无味”，他把这句格言付诸实践。
Flat-dwellers shall indorse my dictum that theirs is the only true happiness.
公寓生活是唯一真正的快乐，住公寓的人一定都赞成我的论断。
But in spite of the dictum of some philosophers man does not accept any arbitrary and absolute limit to his knowable world.
但是尽管有哲学名言，人类仍然不承认个人对世界认知的武断性和绝对性。
As a dictum, it served him well, but it hardly amounts to a business model.
这个作为谨行的信条还可以（他也因此受益），但是很难成为一种商业模式。
But we need to be reminded of the dictum of Keynes that "money will not manage itself" .
但我们需要谨记凯恩斯的格言：货币不会自我管理。
I recalled a favorite dictum of his: man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
我想到了他生前最喜欢的格言：一个人可以被消灭，但不能被打败。
This is scary stuff to those who swear by Milton Friedman's dictum that "inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon. "
对那些信奉米尔顿·弗里德曼格言的人来说印钞是件可怕的事情，米尔顿曾说“通货膨胀在任何时间任何地点都只是金融现象”。
This was also echoed by Deng's dictum : "Free our mind and seek truth from facts. "
这也是与邓小平的名言相呼应的：“解放思想，实事求是”。
This programme completely ignores Keynes' dictum that states must face crises with counter-measures to support demand.
该计划完全无视凯恩斯的理论：即政府必须采取支持需求的对策以面对危机。
And so Lady Thatcher's dictum does not seem to apply.
因此撒切尔夫人的格言似乎并不适用。
This famous dictum of Lord Acton is as relevant today as it was when stated in 1887.
阿克顿勋爵（LordActon）的这句著名格言，就像1887年说出时一样，贴近今日之现实。
There is classical authority for the dictum that "rotten wood cannot be carved. "
有一句古话很有道理：“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种任意的理论，不能作为代数的牢固基础。
A dictum of the Ancient Greek philosopher Socrates reads: It is wisdom other than knowledge that really brings us pleasure.
古希腊哲人苏格拉底有句名言：真正带给我们快乐的是智慧，而不是知识。
But this dictum against paradoxical events causes possible but unlikely events to happen more frequently.
但是，这种禁止悖谬事件的法则却使合理而不大可能发生的事情更频繁地发生。
(His famous dictum on keeping a low profile was prescribed afterthe collapse of the former Soviet Union, morethan a decade later).
（他的这句关于韬光养晦的著名宣言随着十几年后前苏联的解体，成为了明文规定）。
Be thought that "best profit of the personage money meet Jew who does business most even looks upon young fad" as famous dictum aphorism.
被认为最会做生意的犹太人甚至把“年轻时尚人士的钱最好赚”奉为至理格言。
Bagehot's dictum needed updating when the crisis of confidence affected entire markets rather than single banks.
Bagehot的格言有些过时了，尤其是信心的危机影响了整个市场而不再仅仅是独立的银行。
It brought to mind Deng Xiaoping's famous dictum that China must "keep a low profile and never take the lead" .
这件事让我想起了邓小平的一句名言，中国必须“韬光养晦，绝不当头”。
But most other politicians adhere to Benjamin Jowett's famous dictum about apologies: never!
但多数政客却选择本杰明•乔伊特5（BenjaminJowett）关于道歉的名言：决不！
I would only add to Acton's dictum that discretionary power is even more corrupting than the power embodied in regulations.
要是说对阿克顿勋爵的格言有什么补充的话，我只会说，自由裁量权要比制度中赋予的权利更容易造成腐败。
Remember the dictum our professor taught us, ' diffidence leads to envy which gives rise to spite.
记住教授告诉我们的名言：‘缺乏自信会导致嫉妒，进而产生怨恨。’
In Lenin's famous dictum, a democratic republic is the ideal political shell for capitalism.
在列宁的名言中，民主共和国是资本主义理想的政治外壳。
They should take as their motto Keynes's dictum that "economics is a moral and not a natural science" .
他们应该把凯恩斯的名言“经济学是道德科学而不是自然科学”作为座右铭。
Mr Obama even quoted Ronald Reagan and his dictum of "trust but verify" .
为此奥巴马甚至引用了罗纳德·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.
时间就是金钱。今天大家都耳熟能详的这句格言，是富兰克林在200多年前创造的。
Eventually, perhaps soon, the market must obey Mr Micawber's dictum.
最终，也许很快，市场肯定会兑现米考伯的格言。
Ever since, Webster's dictum has been regarded as a principle of international law.
自此，韦伯斯特的正式声明就被遵为国际法原则。
"All's well that ends well" is the dictum of unanimous common sense.
“结果好就一切都好，”这是我们的常识一致公认的名言。
