dictate是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 听写; 口授; 命令, 支配，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Glenarvan began to dictate as follows: "Order to Tom Austin, Chief Officer, to get to sea without delay, and bring the DUNCAN to—"Paganel was just finishing the last word, when his eye chanced to fall on the Australian and New Zealand Gazette lying on the ground.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I'll dictate to you,' said Aglaya, coming up to the table.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was to placate voluble voters who came in to complain of everything from the smell of sewer- gas to the midnight beer parties of neighbors; he was to dictate office correspondence to the touchy stenographer, who was not a Working Girl but a Nice Girl Who Was Working; to give publicity to the newspapers; to buy paper-clips and floor-wax and report-blanks at the lowest prices; to assist, in need, the two part-time physicians in the city clinic; to direct the nurses and the two sanitary inspectors; to scold the Garbage Removal Company; to arrest--or at least to jaw at--all public spitters; to leap into a Ford and rush out to tack placards on houses in which were infectious diseases; to keep a learned implacable eye on epidemics from Vladivostok to Patagonia, and to prevent (by methods not very clearly outlined) their coming in to slay the yeomanry and even halt the business activities of Nautilus.
-- He was summoned into the reception- room of the department to explain to angry citizens why the garage next door to them should smell of gasoline; he went back to his cubbyhole to dictate letters to school-principals about dental clinics; he drove out to Swede Hollow to see what attention the food and dairy inspector had given to the slaughterhouses; he ordered a family in Shantytown quarantined; and escaped at last into the laboratory.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I will dictate to you.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I resorted to Traddles for advice, whosuggested that he should dictate speeches to me, at a pace, andwith occasional stoppages, adapted to my weakness.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A thousand and a thousand thanks for all the kindness you have ever shewn me, and ten thousand for the attentions your heart will dictate towards her. If you think me in a way to be happier than I deserve, I am quite of your opinion. Miss W. calls me the child of good fortune.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Do not suppose, however, that I wish to dictate happiness to you or that a delay on your part would cause me any serious uneasiness.
-- But it is your hap-piness I desire as well as my own when I declare to you that our marriage would render me eternally miserable unless it were the dictate of your own free choice.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I freely confess, that all the little knowledge I have of any value, was acquired by the lectures I received from my mas-ter, and from hearing the discourses of him and his friends; to which I should be prouder to listen, than to dictate to the greatest and wisest assembly in Europe.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So now Clif-ford would sometimes dictate a letter to her, and she would take it down rather slowly, but correctly.
-- 'But will the men let you dictate terms?'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Aunt says Amy, decidedly, and it is not for us to dictate when she offers such a favor.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, the fact was, that in the inmost recesses of his own heart, Mr. Grimwig was strongly disposed to admit that Oliver's appearance and manner were unusually prepossessing; but he had a strong appetite for contradiction, sharpened on this occasion by the finding of the orange-peel; and, inwardly determining that no man should dictate to him whether a boy was well-looking or not, he had resolved, from the first, to oppose his friend.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In her earnest meditations on the contents of the letter, on the depravity of that mind which could dictate it, and probably, on the very different mind of a very different person, who had no other connection whatever with the affair than what her heart gave him with every thing that passed, Elinor forgot the immediate distress of her sister, forgot that she had three letters on her lap yet unread, and so entirely forgot how long she had been in the room, that when on hearing a carriage drive up to the door, she went to the window to see who could be coming so unreasonably early, she was all astonishment to perceive Mrs. Jennings's chariot, which she knew had not been ordered till one.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You can't dictate to me nor my children.
-- As long as I'm in this house I'm master of it, and you or any one else won't dictate to me--do you hear?"
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