edict
edict 英 [ˈi:dɪkt] 美 [ˈiˌdɪkt]
n. 法令；布告
名词复数:edicts
- If your mom orders you to clean your room, that's an order. If the king asks you to do it, that's an edict — an official order from some higher up.
- 请先登录
- n. 法令；布告
-
1. Copies of the edict were inscribed on stone monuments all over the empire.
罗马帝国到处可见苍穹有力地刻有该法令的石碑。
-
2. If I were a mayor for a day, I'd pass an edict that every utility company digging up an urban street would have to pay a tree tax in kind.
如果我可以做一天市长，我会推出一项法令，每一个公共事业的公司必须为城市的街道缴纳一些树木的实用税项。
-
3. According to the Book of Exodus, he was born in Egypt to Hebrew parents, who set him afloat on the Nile in a reed basket to save him from an edict calling for the death of all newborn Hebrew males.
根据〈出埃及记〉所载，他出生于埃及，父母为希伯来人。 为了逃过一项杀死所有希伯来新生儿男婴的法令，他被放入芦苇摇篮中漂到尼罗河上。
- edict (n.) late 15c., edycte; earlier edit (late 13c.), "proclamation having the force of law," from Old French edit, from Latin edictum "proclamation, ordinance, edict," neuter past participle of edicere "publish, proclaim," from assimilated form of ex "out, out of" (see ex-) + dicere "to say" (from PIE root *deik- "to show," also "pronounce solemnly"). Related: Edictal.
- 请先登录
0 个回复