简单释义：

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v. 决定；口述；支配；强行规定

n. 规定；命令

网络 口授；听写；使听写

变形：

过去分词：dictated  现在分词：dictating  第三人称单数：dictates  

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完整释义：

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v.

1.(将信稿等内容向某人)口授,(口述文句等叫人)听写
2.口授,口述;笔录
3.决定,确定,说明
4.取决于,限定,要求
5.口述;命令
6.支配,控制,指挥,作主
7.命令,支配,摆布
8.进行,影响,看到
9.凭,使
10.〔兽医〕限于

n.

1.规定
2.命令,指挥,指令,意旨
3.吩咐
4.法律

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例句：

1. Of course your inventory space will dictate how much you keep and how much you sell, especially early in the life of your character.
   当然物品栏的空间决定了你能携带和售卖的物品数量，这一点在角色成长的前期尤其明显。

2. The few can no longer dictate the course of mankind, and the path is opening up for the final stages of duality, as you know it.
   少数人不能够在对整个人类发号施令了，并且道路在打开，为了二元世界的最后阶梯，这是你们都知道的了。

3. For every boy struggling not to let advertising dictate his desires, there is a girl facing the ad industry's attacks on her self-esteem.
   男孩努力地抗拒广告对他欲望的左右，女孩则得承受广告工业对她自尊的攻击。

4. 'I was just trying to help him, ' she says. 'I never tried to dictate what he should wear.
   她说，我只是想帮助他，我从来没有试图去支配他，命令他应该穿什么。

5. Top White House officials insist that the president has no desire to dictate spending targets to other nations.
   白宫高级官员们坚称，总统没有对其他国家下达支出指标的意图。

6. It is a piece of cake for her to recite it or dictate it.
   无论是背诵这些内容还是听写这些内容，对她来说都是小菜一碟。

7. Thus for the first time Beijing will dictate how much lending banks can do.
   因此，中国政府将首次能够就这些银行的贷款规模发号施令。

8. Physics tends to be dictated by fad and fashion. There are the gurus who dictate the direction in which new ideas grow.
   物理学往往是直接与流行时尚挂钩。专家决定新思想的发展方向。