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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。

He may profitably recall the dictum of a recent essayist that "there is no limit to the mercy of God. "

他也许会回想起近来一位评论家的格言“上帝的同情永远不为过。”

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。

Yet Kissinger succeeded in defying an old Washington dictum that you can have in the capital visibility or influence, but not both.

在华盛顿有一条传统格言：要么抛头露面，要么得势弄权，二者不可兼得。基辛格却公然蔑视这种传统。

His own defiant dictum, that he changed his mind when the facts changed, has been on the lips of current policy-makers.

他那目中无人的座右铭——想法随实际情况的改变而改变——一直挂在当今的政策制定者嘴边。

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

他正合白求恩的口味，白求恩彻头彻尾应用上了他的名言。

The most fundamental change has been the rejection of Aristotle's dictum that true tragedy can only depict those with power and high status.

最根本的改变，一直拒绝亚里士多德的格言：真正的悲剧，只能描绘那些与权力和很高的地位。

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。

But, as the oft-quoted dictum goes: Politics made him share bed with strange fellows.

但正如名言所说：政治让人与陌生的家伙同床共枕。

In fact, to paraphrase a well-known dictum, we have an agreement with typesetters: they do not translate, we do not do typesetting.

事实上，可以演绎一条众所周知的名言，想必排字工人也会同意：“他们不翻译，我们不排印”。

So much for Deng Xiaoping's dictum that China should keep a low profile and "never take the lead" .

中国深受邓小平的名言即中国应该冷静观察，保持低调，“绝不当头”的影响已经很久了。

"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。

Flat-dwellers shall indorse my dictum that theirs is the only true happiness.

公寓生活是唯一真正的快乐，住公寓的人一定都赞成我的论断。

But in spite of the dictum of some philosophers man does not accept any arbitrary and absolute limit to his knowable world.

但是尽管有哲学名言，人类仍然不承认个人对世界认知的武断性和绝对性。

As a dictum, it served him well, but it hardly amounts to a business model.

这个作为谨行的信条还可以（他也因此受益），但是很难成为一种商业模式。

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。

I recalled a favorite dictum of his: man can be destroyed, but not defeated.

我想到了他生前最喜欢的格言：一个人可以被消灭，但不能被打败。

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 was also echoed by Deng's dictum : "Free our mind and seek truth from facts. "

这也是与邓小平的名言相呼应的：“解放思想，实事求是”。

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。