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

• If you want to extract some meaningful and beautiful lines, it will be better to buy a Extraction of Celebrated Dictum and keep it handy.
  如果要摘录隽语挂句，不如买一本现成的《名人名言录》放在手边。
• 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”。
• Ms Johnson has also seen trusts that give complete discretion to the trustee with the sole ( and loose) dictum that the children need only be "productive members of society", whether that is stay-at-home mother, entrepreneur or research chemist.
  约翰森还看到，一些信托赋予托管人全面的自由，唯一（且宽松）的条件是子女仅需成为“社会的生产成员”，不管是全职妈妈、企业家还是化学研究员。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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义大利格言不无道理：穿著得体的男人至少拥有三块表。
• 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。
• Another Keynesian dictum "in the long run we are all dead" was an admonition against the irresponsibility of doing nothing if we obstinately rely on the self-correcting power of market forces.
  凯恩斯的另一条格言“长期来看，我们都会死亡”是对一味依赖市场的自我修正功能，什么事情都不做的不负责任态度的警告。
• 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。