precept

英 [ˈpriːsept]

美 [ˈpriːsept]

n.  (思想、行为的)准则，规范

复数：precepts　现在分词：precepting　第三人称单数：precepts　过去分词：precepted　过去式：precepted　

GRE经济

BNC.14293 / COCA.13906

牛津词典

noun

• （思想、行为的）准则，规范
  a rule about how to behave or what to think

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 准则；规范；戒律
  Apreceptis a general rule that helps you to decide how you should behave in particular circumstances.
  1. ...an electoral process based on the precept that all men are born equal.
     以所有人生而平等这一准则为基础的选举程序
  2. ...the precepts of Buddhism.
     佛教的戒律

英英释义

noun

• a doctrine that is taught
  1. the teachings of religion
  2. he believed all the Christian precepts
  Synonym:teachingcommandment
• rule of personal conduct
  Synonym:principle

双语例句

• The son HAD well profited by the precept and example of the father.
  老太爷的言传身教早已使他儿子获益无穷。
• Do other men, for they would do you; that's the true business precept.
  你不吃人，人就吃你这就是真本生意经。
• And Jesus answered and said unto them, for the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.
  耶稣说、摩西因为你们的心硬、所以写这条例给你们。
• A Tentative Study of the Commandment Elements of Buddhism and Taoism in Traditional Family Regulations; There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
  传统家规中所见佛、道戒律因素初论任何一条道德戒律在奉行时都会引起不便。
• Based on security and integrality code, it takes the salvageable preservation precept to Beidaihe modern building;
  根据安全性和完整性原则，提出对北戴河近代建筑进行抢救性保护方案；
• If, for example, the precept against killing allowed you to kill living beings when their presence is inconvenient, that would place your convenience on a higher level than your compassion for life.
  举例来说，假设杀生戒允许你在其它生灵的存在对你不便时把它们杀死，那样就把你的方便放在了高于你对生命的慈悲的位置。
• We give them the passion for truth: founded on precept or example, truth is the beginning of every good thing; the power and the faith engendering mutual trust.
  我们要给予他们追求真理的激情：真理建立在言传身教的基础上，是一切美好事情的开始，是带来相互信任的力量和信念。
• All the Levites, that Moses and Aaron numbered according to the precept of the Lord, by their families, of the male kind from one month and upward, were twenty-two thousand.
  梅瑟和亚郎照上主的命令，统计了所有的肋未人，按家族凡一月以上的男性都统计了，共计二万二千人。
• The wording is biblical but the precept is echoed across religions, cultures and time.
  尽管措辞像是圣经上的字眼，但这一训诫却可在各种宗教、各种文化和各个时期找到。
• He proceeded to exhort his daughter to eat, not by example indeed, but at least by precept.
  他开始劝他女儿吃点东西。他采取的办法不是以身作则，而是跟她讲道理。