dic.tate
dictate的音标和读音：
DJ音标发音： [ˈdikˌteit, dikˈteit]
KK音标发音： [ˈdɪkˌtet, dɪkˈtet]
dictate的词性：
v.（动词）
dictate的词性：
v.tr.（及物动词）
1. To say or read aloud to be recorded or written by another:
口述：大声说或念，由另一个人记录或书写：
dictate a letter.
读信
2. To prescribe with authority; impose:
命令，指示：权威性指示；强制实行：
dictated the rules of the game.
宣读比赛规则
3. To control or command:
控制，支配：控制或指挥：
“Foreign leaders were . . . dictated by their own circumstances, bound by the universal imperatives of politics”(Doris Kearns Goodwin)
“外围领导者…被他们自己的环境所支配，被政治的普遍的专横所限制”(多丽丝·克恩斯·古德温)
dictate的词性：
v.intr.（不及物动词）
4. To say or read aloud material to be recorded or written by another:
口述：大声说或念材料，由另一个人记录或抄写：
dictated for an hour before leaving for the day.
在离开一天之前念一小时
5. To issue orders or commands.
命令：颁布命令或指令
dictate的词性：
n.（名词）
dictate的音标和读音：
6. A directive; a command.
指示；命令
7. A guiding principle:
指导原则：
followed the dictates of my conscience.
接受我的良心的支配
dictate的词源：
8. Latin dict3re dict3t- [frequentative of] docere [to say] * see deik-
拉丁语 dict3re dict3t- [] docere的重复动词 [讲] *参见 deik-
dictate， decree， impose， ordain， prescribe
9. The central meaning shared by these verbs is “to set forth expressly and authoritatively”:
这些动词共有的中心意思的“明确和权威地阐述”：
victors dictating the terms of surrender;
胜利者口述投降的条目；
confiscation of alien property decreed by the legislature;
由立法机关和判决外国财产的没收；
impose obedience;
强制服从；
a separation seemingly ordained by fate;
看起来是命运注定的分离；
taxes prescribed by law.
法律规定的税额