dictating

How fast do you dictate to your secretary?

你向你的秘书口述的速度有多快?

No person of a strong character likes to be dictated to.

没有一个个性强的人愿受人使唤。

We're now in a position to dictate our own demands.

现在, 我们有资格提出我们的求。

He refused to be dictated to.

受别人的支配。

He dictated how everything should be done.

专横地规定各种事物应如何处理。

He dictated a letter to his secretary.

向秘书口述一。

Write while I dictate.

当我口述时请你记下。

It took him a long time to dictate this letter.

口述这了很长时间。

Convention dictates that a minister should resign in such a situation.

依照常规部长在这种情况下应该辞职。

The union leaders are trying to dictate their demands to the employer.

工会领导人正设法迫使雇主接受们的求。

I have four letters to dictate.

我有四口授。

The Lenten fast dictated that the simnel cake had to keep until Easter.

四旬斋斋戒说这种重油水果蛋糕必须一直保留至复活节。

The purpose of dreaming is to unfetter human instinct and allow it to follow the dictates of primal memory.

所谓做梦，就是放纵人的本能，任其赤裸裸地活跃在大脑记忆中。

There are others to whom Idleness dictates another expedient, by which life may be passed unprofitably away without the tediousness of many vacant hours.

对于其一些人来说，懒散还有另一种表现形式，时光纵然白白流逝，而们并没有因为许多小时没有做什麽而感到无聊乏味。