Edict

(noun.) a formal or authoritative proclamation.

编辑:莉莉

• Notwithstanding the edict of 1766, by which the French king attempted to reduce the rate of interest from five to four per cent. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Whereupon the emperor his father published an edict, commanding all his subjects, upon great penalties, to break the smaller end of their eggs. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• 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·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• 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! 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• In many provinces, no doubt, there must have been a great reluctance to enforce the edict. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• 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. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.

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