- [uncountable]
the act of speaking or reading so that somebody can write down the words or they can be recorded 口述 Her secretary is very good at taking dictation. 她的秘書很擅長做口授記錄。 - from dictation
I find it difficult to write letters from dictation. 我覺得聽别人口授寫信很不容易。 - at somebody's dictation
I wrote some letters at his dictation. 由他口授我寫了幾封信。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + dictation- do
- give somebody
- take
- …
- in a/the dictation
- [countable, uncountable]
a test in which students write down what is being read to them, especially in language lessons 聽寫 The teacher gave them a dictation. 老師讓他們聽寫。 We did a French dictation in class. 課堂上我們進行了法語聽寫。 We had some very difficult words in our dictation. 聽寫時我們遇到了些很難的單詞。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + dictation- do
- give somebody
- take
- …
- in a/the dictation
Word Originmid 17th cent. originally meaning the action of giving orders : from late Latin dictatio(n-), from the verb dictare.