dictum

英 [ˈdɪktəm]

美 [ˈdɪktəm]

n.  名言; 格言

复数：dicta　

TOEFLGRETEM8法律

BNC.12484 / COCA.17196

牛津词典

noun

• 名言；格言
  a statement that expresses sth that people believe is always true or should be followed

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 名言;格言;箴言
  Adictumis a saying that describes an aspect of life in an interesting or wise way.
  1. ...the dictum that it is preferable to be roughly right than precisely wrong...
     有句格言说道，大致对总比完全错要好
  2. She reminded us of Barnum's dictum: You could sell anything to anybody if you marketed it right.
     她提醒我们想想巴纳姆的名言：如果营销得力，你可以把任何东西卖给任何人。
• N-COUNT 宣言;正式声明
  Adictumis a formal statement made by someone who has authority.
  1. ...Disraeli's dictum that the first priority of the government must be the health of the people.
     迪斯雷利的声明——政府必须把民众的健康当作第一要务

英英释义

noun

• an authoritative declaration
  Synonym:pronouncementsay-so
• an opinion voiced by a judge on a point of law not directly bearing on the case in question and therefore not binding
  Synonym:obiter dictum

双语例句

• Are the philosophers or are the poets you might say the true legislators for mankind?! if you want to use Shelley's dictum?
  是哲学家或是诗学家，或者你可以说，人类的真正立法者，如果你想要借用雪莱名言的话？
• His dictum always was,'if a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well '.
  他的格言永远是：“当为之事，当尽力而为”。
• Keynes 'dictum certainly holds true for Chinese reverse-merger companies with opaque financials: the market can remain irrational longer than your cash can hold out.
  凯恩斯的格言自然适用于财务不透明的中国借壳上市公司&市场维持非理性的时间可能长于你口袋里的现金能维持的时间。
• Thus, the dictum could be dared in the psychoanalytic school: at bottom, nobody believes in his own death.
  在精神分析学院会有这种说法：，说到底，没人相信自己的死亡。
• She reminded us of Barnum's dictum: You could sell anything to anybody if you marketed it right.
  她提醒我们想想巴纳姆的名言：如果营销得力，你可以把任何东西卖给任何人。
• 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。
• Yahoo managers are already starting to advocate for exceptions to the no-work-at-home dictum.
  雅虎经理们目前已经开始为不适用“坐班”规定的特殊情况奔走呼号。
• 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。
• The situation in which the virtuous man stands is well summed up in Kant's dictum on the subject of moral freedom," I ought, therefore I can";
  关于有德之人的立场，康德在他论述道德自由时所说的“我应该，所以我能够”的名言，把它总结得很是妥当；
• The company soon discovered the truth of Napoleon's dictum that one bad general is worth two good ones.
  该公司很快就发现了拿破仑的名言：一个不好的将军好于两个好将军的真理。