But Weber turned this dictum on its head.

但是Weber把這說法完全倒過來了。

Maybe you've heard the contemporary version of Thatcher's dictum.

听过撒切尔名言的当代版本。

Played by lawyers might be a more accurate dictum. The rules are famously complicated.

“律师玩的游戏”，这么说或更加准确。橄榄球的规则是出了名的复杂。

Orwell's dictum now faces a new test.

奥威尔的这则言现如今正面临新的考验。

However, Monnet's dictum is also a source of complacency.

然而，莫内的名言成了欧盟自满的根源。

His dictum was something like, 'When the Emperor is good, serve.

“当君主圣明的时候，入世。

The dictum in writing classes used to be “write what you know.”

从前写作课上的箴言是“写了解的”。

Lord Acton's dictum that “great men are almost always bad men” has become a commonplace.

艾克顿公爵的言“伟人几乎总是坏人”已经成为名句。

A dictum is a short statement or saying which expresses some wise advice or a general truth about life.

言是简短的陈述或话语，表达的是关于生活的一些明智建议或普遍真理。

A dictum among linguists is that languages differ not in what they can express, but in what they must.

语言学家的一个言是，语言的差异不在于它们能表达什么，而在于它们必须表达什么。

The Fed's recently introduced Bank Term Funding Programme discards this dictum.

美联储最近推出的银行定期融资计划摒弃了这一言。

The medievals had a dictum, ens est scibile, ''being is knowable.''

中世纪有句言，ens est scibile：“存在就是被感知。”

Germaine Tailleferre one can only repeat Dr Johnson's dictum concerning, a woman preacher, transposed into terms of music.

Germaine Tailleferre 能重复约翰逊博士关于一位女传教士的名言，并将其转化为音乐术语。

Apart from her studies Anne expanded socially, for Marilla, mindful of the Spencervale doctor's dictum, no longer vetoed occasional outings.

除了她的学业，安妮在社交方面得到了扩展，因为玛丽拉牢记斯宾塞维尔医生的言，不再否决偶尔的外出活动。

Confucius's dictum advised that when the Emperor was evil, people should become recluses - people, like hermits, who live alone and avoid contact with others.

孔子的名言建议帝王昏庸的时候，人们应该成为出世者 —— 像隐士一样独居并避免与他人交流的人。

The delicacy of his position here, alone and dependent upon the Convention and the dictum familia of the Great Houses, fretted him.

他在这里的微妙地位，独自一人，依赖于公约和大家族的言，使他烦恼。

Confucius's dictum advised that when the Emperor was evil, people should become recluses – people, like hermits, who live alone and avoid contact with others.

无道则隐——隐居者就像隐士一样，独自生活，避免与他人接触。

There is an admitted bumper-sticker quality to dictum like that, but compared with the familiar age-related wisdom-take it slow, watch your diet, stay cheerful-it's bracing.

像这样的言都被公认为有种保险杠贴纸的味道，但跟熟悉的岁月赋予的智慧——就是慢慢来，注意饮食，保持乐观——相比，这种言都少还是会让人觉得振奋人心。

It is a variation on the old Ralph Waldo Emerson dictum: " The louder he mentioned his honour, the faster we counted our spoons."

这是拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生那句古老言的变体：“他提到自己的荣誉的声音越大，我们数勺子的速度就越快。”

Mark Twain's famous dictum comes to mind: " I have lived through many disasters, " he said, " only a few of which actually happened" .

这里就让人想到了马克·吐温的名言：“我经历过多灾难，但有少数灾难真正发生了”。