dictate的翻译，读音
英/ dɪkˈteɪt /
美/ ˈdɪkteɪt /
释义：
v.命令，规定；影响，支配；口述，使听写
n.命令，规定
n.命令，规定
词态
复数dictates第三人称单数dictates
现在分词dictating
过去式dictated
过去分词dictated
短句
dictate to 命令dictate policy 口述政策
dictate letter 口授
同根词
dictation n. 听写；口述；命令dictator n. 独裁者；命令者
例句
If people could just dictate the kind of country they had, what would it be? 如果人们可以自己管理命令自己的国家，他们希望它变成什么样子？ 。
INSKEEP: What do people want? If people could just dictate the kind of country they had, what would it be? 人们到底想要什么？如果人们可以自己管理命令自己的国家，他们希望它变成什么样子？ 。
These zones like to dictate how we present ourselves. Knowing which zone you're in is very important when it comes to physical interactions with another person. 这些区域喜欢命令我们如何表现自己。
On the flipside, it's all too easy to say that members of the public have no right to dictate what the press should do when they don't understand what they are talking about. 另外来看，当公众不知道媒体在谈论什么的时候，公众很容易就会被人说没有权利去命令媒体应该怎么做。
dictate sth . to sb. 向某人口述某事… 。