“All’s well that ends well” is the dictum of unanimous common sense

“结果好就一切都好，”这是我们的常识一致公认的名言。

Simplicity, tastefulness, function are our dictum

朴素、雅致、功用是我们的信条。

He cites Augustine’s dictum that ‘If you understand it,it is not God’(Joseph Sobran)

他援引奥古斯丁的最后声明‘如果你了解它，它就不是神了’(约瑟夫·索布兰)

He was made to order for Bethune, who now invoked his famous dictum with a vengeance

他正合白求恩的口味，白求恩彻头彻尾遵循他的名言。

It justifies the infamous dictum of Smerdyakov in The Brothers Karamazov: “All things are permissible,” if only one can get away with them

它为小说《卡拉马佐夫兄弟》中的斯梅迪可夫的无耻格言提供了辩辞:如果能得以逃脱责任，“万事皆无禁忌”。

I agree with this dictum

我赞成这条格言。

The modern monetary theory of the balance of payments has added an extra layer of assurance to Hume’s dictum

现代有关国际收支的货币理论对休漠的见解又增一层可信性。

The principle of permanence of form, an arbitrary dictum , could not serve as a solid foundation for algebra

型的永恒性原理是一种任意的理论，不能作为代数的牢固基础。

the well-known dictum `Knowledge is power’

著名的格言‘知识就是力量’.

Simplicity, tastefulness, function are our dictum .

追求朴素、雅致、实用是我们的信条。

Ever sinceWebster’s dictum has been regarded as a principle of international law

自此，韦伯斯特的正式声明就被遵为国际法原则。

||1: Bright was a political force, but he never held high office, so he was rather like a midfielder who forever sets up the strikers: assists don’t count as much as goals. ||2: A full- scale revival of his reputation would have to rouse the reader’s imagination. ||3: Mr Cash quotes Bright’s dictum that “my life is in my speeches”, many of which are rhetorical masterpieces; but the reader wants more of the man, more of the life outside the speeches. ||4: Bright believed that biographies “are soon forgotten, and of no influence in the future”. ||5: Historians will enjoy this fine political portrait, but it is unlikely to make Bright famous again.

||1: 布莱特有相当的政治影响力, 但是却从未担任高官, 所以其实他更像是一个永远为前锋提供支持的中场队员：他的助攻不见得都能转化为得分。 ||2:要全面恢复布莱特的声望还有赖于唤起读者们的想象空间。||3: 卡什先生引述了布莱特的一句格言”我的生命都在演讲中”, 布莱特的演讲的确很多都是修辞极佳的经典之作, 但是读者们恐怕想要更多的了解这个人, 了解这个人在演讲之外的生活中是什么样子。 ||4: 布莱特本人认为传记”都是容易被人遗忘的, 而且对未来也不会产生什么影响”。 ||5: 历史学家们应该会对这一部精致地描写了这个政治人物的著作很有兴趣, 但是这本书还是不太可能让布莱特再”火”起来。

||1:Hero-worship is out.||2:Most serious writers are more interested in “forces” and “factors” than in heroes and heroines.||3:And even biographers specialise in exposing feet of clay.||4:Lord Acton’s dictum that “great men are almost always bad men” has become a commonplace.||5:Yet one group has escaped from this general cynicism: entrepreneurs.||6:Company executives may be boring Gradgrinds, bankers the spawn of the devil and politicians crooks and liars.||7:But all agree that entrepreneurs are a cut above the rest of mankind.

||1:英雄崇拜的时代已经不再。||2:大多严肃的作家对“影响力”和“影响因素”比对英雄本身更加感兴趣。||3:即使是传记作者，也开始专门曝光英雄的缺陷。||4:艾克顿公爵的格言“伟人几乎总是坏人”已经成为名句。||5:但是有一类人免受这种普遍的怀疑：企业家。||6:企业的高管们也许像令人厌的葛擂梗（Gradgrinds，译者注：狄更斯小说《艰难时世》中的人物），是万恶之源的银行家和瞒天过海的政治家。||7:但是所有人都同意企业家要高出其他人一筹。

Alexis de Tocqueville once observed that the most dangerous moment for a bad government was when it began to reform. Unless it can find some way to boost growth soon, the euro zone could yet bear out his dictum .

Alexis de Tocqueville曾经做过观察，他认为一个失败政治最危险的时刻是在其正准备开始改革的时候。除非它能很快找到刺激增长的方法，欧元区可能仍需为其坚持的政策提供证明。译者:邓小雪

The company soon discovered the truth of Napoleon’s dictum that one bad general is worth two good ones.

该公司很快就发现了拿破仑的名言：一个不好的将军好于两个好将军的真理。

If only Japan’s economic policymakers would apply that dictum more widely

要是日本的经济决策者在制定决策时能“没有规矩，没有限制”，少一些条条框框就好了。

(His famous dictum on keeping a low profile was prescribed afterthe collapse of the former Soviet Union, morethan a decade later).

（他的这句关于韬光养晦的著名宣言随着十几年后前苏联的解体，成为了明文规定）。

Bagehot’s dictum needed updating when the crisis of confidence affected entire markets rather than single banks.

Bagehot的格言有些过时了，尤其是信心的危机影响了整个市场而不再仅仅是独立的银行。

“Don’t bore the public with mysterious designs, ” Mr. Noorda once said, and he put that dictum into practice.

Noorda先生曾说：“别用神秘的设计让公众感觉索然无味”，他把这句格言付诸实践。

This famous dictum of Lord Acton is as relevant today as it was when stated in 1887.

阿克顿勋爵（LordActon）的这句著名格言，就像1887年说出时一样，贴近今日之现实。

Lenin’s famous dictum “Kto kovo” ( “who did what to whom” ) is the best way of clearingthe fog.

拨开迷雾的最佳方法就是列宁那句名言“谁对谁做了什么”（Ktokovo）。

But we need to be reminded of the dictum of Keynes that “money will not manage itself” .

但我们需要谨记凯恩斯的格言：货币不会自我管理。

The disciples were absorbed in a discussion of Lao-tzu’s dictum :

弟子在一次老子论断研讨会上全神领会：

The rest of the film bears out the horror-movie dictum that nervous young women are always right.

电影的剩余部分证实了这部恐怖电影的格言：不安的年青女人总是对的。

This is scary stuff to those who swear by Milton Friedman’s dictum that “inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon. ”

对那些信奉米尔顿·弗里德曼格言的人来说印钞是件可怕的事情，米尔顿曾说“通货膨胀在任何时间任何地点都只是金融现象”。

This programme completely ignores Keynes’ dictum that states must face crises with counter-measures to support demand.

该计划完全无视凯恩斯的理论：即政府必须采取支持需求的对策以面对危机。

The current field of eight Republican aspirants is certainly fulfilling the first half of Nixon’s dictum .

目前共和党有8人有志参选，他们的立场绝对符合尼克松那句名言的前半句。

Heidegger’s dictum to be authentic and free oneself from conventional restraints, for example, can lead to a rejection of morality.

譬如海德格尔的名言，做真实的自己，从传统中解放自己，就有可能引向对道德的拒绝。

They might also lift their gloom a little if they recalled the old dictum that crisis brings opportunity as well as risks.

若他们想到“危机同时带来危险与机遇”这句古语，或可稍加释怀。

Watch sellers employ a logical Italian dictum : a well-dressed man owns at least three timepieces.

手表经销商流传的一句意大利格言不无道理：穿着得体的男人至少拥有三块表。

ut dictum

n.依嘱

obiter dictum

ph.1. 【律】附论(法官于审判中附带表示的意见),2. 附带意见;附带讲的话

gratis dictum

空言

orbiter dictum

判词中的附带意见

judicial dictum

法官对判决的意见