vi.听写
vt.口授；规定；决定，影响
n.命令，支配，主宰；指挥；指令
He was dictating a letter to his secretary. 他在向秘书口授信稿。
He can't write but he can dictate. 他不会写但会说。
Businessmen often dictate their letters. 商人常口授信稿令人笔录。
You can't dictate to people how they should live. 不能强行规定人们应该怎样生活。
用作名词 (n.)If I had the dictatorial power in a dictatorship, I will dictate those IT be kept in detention for appearing too pretentious. 我假如拥有独裁政治的专断权，我会命令把她关起来，罪名是外表炫耀做作。
Don't dictate to me to do that. 别命令我去做那件事。
It belongs to me to dictate to them. 我有指挥他们的权责。
dictate的基本意思是大声讲或读,口授,也可用于口头发出权威性的指令,以此来支配或指导他人的行动。
dictate可用作不及物动词,也可用作及物动词。作及物动词时接名词或名词从句作宾语。
dictate常和介词to连用,表示“向…口授”“向…传达命令”。
