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

• 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。
• Foolish dictum: In a team, a valuable team player must aspire to be leader.
  启示：愚蠢的格言&组织中的每个人，若想成为有价值的成员，必须立志成为领导。
• 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。
• 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。
• Her argument is compelling but seems at odds with another popular dictum on the topic published last summer.
  她的观点很有说服力，但似乎和去年夏天另一篇备受瞩目的同类文章意见相左。
• 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。
• We're lying to ourselves, pretending we're at ease when we know we aren't, so, in the converse of Goethe's dictum, we don't have a clue how to live.
  我们在对自己撒谎，假装放松，其实我们自己知道没有，所以，和哥德的格言相反，我们对于如何生活毫无头绪。
• He cites Augustine's dictum that 'If you understand it, it is not God'( Joseph Sobran)
  他援引奥古斯丁的最后声明‘如果你了解它，它就不是神了’（约瑟夫·索布兰）
• 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”。
• 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。