He dictated a letter, which one of his clerks wrote out a beautiful round hand, and then the two brothers sat at the window a whole day watching for the right man to give it to.

他口述了一封信，其中一个员工用漂亮的圆体字写了下来。接着，两兄弟在窗边坐了一整天，等待把信交给一位合适的人。

He dictated a letter to his secretary.

他向秘书口授信稿。

She refused to be dictated to by anyone.

她不愿受任何人摆布。

She won't allow herself to be dictated to.

她不会听人摆布的。

The film's budget dictated a tough schedule.

该影片的预算决定了紧张的拍摄进度。

When we take our vacations is very much dictated by Greg's work schedule.

我们什么时候休假在很大程度上取决于格雷格的工作计划。

This was not an easy decision. It is, however, a decision that we feel is dictated by our duty.

这可不是一个轻松的决定。不过我们觉得我们有责任做出这样的的决定。

Her expressive gestures were motivated from within rather than from being dictated by strict technique.

她富有表现力的姿势是由内心激发的，而不是由严格的技巧来支配的。

Aisles of marketing genius belie the fact that, ultimately, weight loss is dictated by the laws of arithmetic.

药店里的营销天才掩饰了一个事实，即减肥最终是由算术定律决定的。

It's an approach not dictated by the confines of conventional large scale agriculture led by international corporations.

这种方法不受国际公司主导的传统大规模农业的限制。

I had not realized how profoundly marketing trends dictated our perception of what is natural to kids, including our core beliefs about their psychological development.

我原来没有意识到，营销趋势是如何深刻地影响着我们对孩子天性的看法，包括我们对他们心理发展的核心信念。

During cooling most migrants would be expected to travel toward Africa, which is near the equator, since this is the direction dictated by habitat changes on a cooling Earth.

在气候变冷期间，大多数迁徙者预计将前往靠近赤道的非洲，因为在气候变冷的地球上，这是栖息地变化所决定的方向。

She dictated a letter to a typist.

她向打字员口授信稿。

He dictated a memo to his secretary.

他向秘书口授一项备忘录。

The teacher dictated a passage to the class.

老师让全班学生听写了一段文章。

In ancient times, authors often dictated their books.

在古代，作家通常口述其著作。

Separate your desires from goals dictated by others.

将你的愿望同由别人所掌控的目标相分离。

The choice of computer is dictated by our special needs.

对计算机的选择取决于我们的特殊需求。

The hard limit on processes is dictated by MaxClients.

进程数的硬性限制由MaxClients指定。

The president has dictated some letters to his secretary.

总裁已向秘书口授了一些信稿。

The order is dictated by container and MUST be correct.

顺序由容器指定，并且必须正确。

The structure of their brains dictated their preferences.

他们的大脑结构决定了他们的选择。

He just dictated a change to the underlying implementation.

他仅要求变更底层实现。

The anonymous market cannot be dictated to or defeated in debate.

论战是不可能左右或挫败匿名市场的。

The perplexed man could write flawlessly when dictated a message.

在听写一条消息的时候，这位困惑的男人写得只字不差。

Message processing times are dictated by service level agreements.

消息处理时间由服务级别协议规定。

Is dictated by the ESB run time technologies used for those services.

受到服务使用的ESB运行时技术的支配。

The first day, the king dictated a letter to his secretary in dialect.

第一天，国王用方言向他的秘书口授一封信。

Blandi said the previous straight-hair trend dictated almost no movement.

布兰迪说，此前的直发潮流几乎没有动感的概念可言。