Edict
['iːdɪkt] or ['idɪkt]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A public command or ordinance by the sovereign power; the proclamation of a law made by an absolute authority, as if by the very act of announcement; a decree; as, the edicts of the Roman emperors; the edicts of the French monarch.
手打:莱曼
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Command, order, decree, rescript, mandate, ordinance, proclamation, ban.
手打:兰斯洛特
解釋/意思:
n. something proclaimed by authority: an order issued by a king or lawgiver.—adj. Edict′al.—adv. Edict′ally.
錄入:罗宾逊
例句/造句/用法:
- Notwithstanding the edict of 1766, by which the French king attempted to reduce the rate of interest from five to four per cent. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Whereupon the emperor his father published an edict, commanding all his subjects, upon great penalties, to break the smaller end of their eggs. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- At that time there was an imperial edict forbidding foreign travel, so that Yuan Chwang started from Singan like an escaping criminal. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- What need of bars, indeed, to keep those poor victims from rushing into the arena which the edict of the gods had appointed as their death place! 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- In many provinces, no doubt, there must have been a great reluctance to enforce the edict. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- John Carter, he said, by the edict of custom, by the law of our religion, and by the verdict of an impartial court, you are condemned to die. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
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