Decree

(noun.) a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge); 'a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there'.

(verb.) issue a decree; 'The King only can decree'.

谢丽尔手打

• Such the decree of the High Ruler from whom there is no appeal: to whom I submit. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• But another decree was written. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• What is this decree that the smith spoke of? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• He induced the Convention to decree that France believed in a Supreme Being, and in that comforting doctrine, the immortality of the soul. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• A strict divorce law might be like New York's: it would recognize few grounds for a decree. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• I, in my stiff- necked rebellion, almost cursed the dispensation: instead of bending to the decree, I defied it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• It is simply that the reality of a revolution is not in a political decree or the scarehead of a newspaper, but in the experiences, feelings, habits of myriads of men. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• This very evening he had again stooped, gazed, and decreed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• That, as they were not so decreed, he probably would not have one. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• And they chuckled inwardly at the idea of the workmen's discomfiture and defeat, in their attempt to alter one iota of what Thornton had decreed. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• She had decreed you the first prize in her wheel--twenty thousand pounds; she only required that you should hold your hand out and take it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• That, if statues were decreed in Britain, as in ancient Greece and Rome, to public benefactors, this shining citizen would assuredly have had one. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• This cow, worth twenty oxen, is decreed, For him who farthest sends the winged reed. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• It decreed that no member of the Assembly should be an executive minister. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Sitting down before this dark comforter, I presently fell into a deep argument with myself on life and its chances, on destiny and her decrees. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Yes, continued the tall man, we must all be resigned to the decrees of Providence. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• But there are no such decrees yet? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• He is connected with the Mafia, which, as you know, is a secret political society, enforcing its decrees by murder. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• My sister was struck by my narrative: How beyond the imagination of man, she exclaimed, are the decrees of heaven, wondrous and inexplicable! 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• He passed his hand complacently over his bald head, and said with ostentatious resignation: 'My dear, we will not anticipate the decrees of fortune. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• I have assailed thy resolution in vain, and mine own is fixed as the adamantine decrees of fate. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.

校对:塞尔玛