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A diktat is an order that a ruler, a winning country, or some other strong power forces on people. There is no real talk and no real choice. The word came into English from German, and it first became famous after the First World War, when many people called the Treaty of Versailles a diktat: Germany had to take hard terms that felt dictated, not agreed. Today it still lives in newspapers and essays, often with anger in it — a company diktat, a government diktat. It is harsher than rule or order. Ordinary conversation almost never uses it; people would just say they were given no say.
強制命令；不容討價還價的苛令
組成Borrowed from German Diktat, from Latin dictātum (“that which has been dictated”). Doublet of dictate. First used widely of the penalties dictated to Germany in the Treaty of Versailles.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
diktatnoun/ˈdɪktæt/
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A dogmatic decree or command, especially issued by one who rules without popular consent.
- Whatever the pressures that have invoked the Minister's diktat, the outcome is Gilbertian.
- Today, regional diktat is now supplemented (though not wholly replaced) by other means of recruiting elites.
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datedA harsh penalty or settlement imposed upon a defeated party by the victor.
- Even Hitler's success in capturing the allegiance of the masses was due far more to this programmes of social reform than to his denunciations of the Diktats of Versailles or his belief in an expansionist future for Germany.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。