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？
• There is a famous dictum with the enterprise management-The key factor of one enterprise success or failure depends on whether it can arouse the staff s power and wisdom, the vigor of enterprise comes from the attraction to the staff.
  在企业管理中有这样一条至理名言：一个企业成败的关键在于它能否激发职工的力量和才智，企业的活力来自企业对职工的吸引力。
• 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。
• 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”。
• The dictum that sovereign applications should fill the screen is also true of document windows within the application itself.
  独占应用应该占据整个屏幕这个原则对于程序内的文档窗口来说也成立。
• The modern monetary theory of the balance of payments has added an extra layer of assurance to hume's dictum.
  现代有关国际收支的货币理论对休漠的见解又增一层可信性。
• Corruption thus offers yet another confirmation of the dictum attributed to Thomas Jefferson that "the government is best which governs least."
  因此，腐败也从一个侧面证明了托马斯杰斐逊（thomasjefferson）的那句名言：“最好的政府就是管的最少的政府。”
• This statement, however, was only in dictum, and does not fall into the category of binding precedent.
  这份声明，但仅在判词中，不属于有约束力的先例。
• 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。