dictum
英 [ˈdɪktəm]
美 [ˈdɪktəm]
n. 名言; 格言
复数：dicta
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.- ...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 - 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。
- ...the dictum that it is preferable to be roughly right than precisely wrong...
- N-COUNT 宣言;正式声明
Adictumis a formal statement made by someone who has authority.- ...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
- ...Disraeli's dictum that the first priority of the government must be the health of the people.
英英释义
noun
- an authoritative declaration
- an opinion voiced by a judge on a point of law not directly bearing on the case in question and therefore not binding
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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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？ - 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。 - The situation in which the virtuous man stands is well summed up in Kant's dictum on the subject of moral freedom," I ought, therefore I can";
关于有德之人的立场，康德在他论述道德自由时所说的“我应该，所以我能够”的名言，把它总结得很是妥当； - 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。 - 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。 - 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。” - 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。