1. Sheldon writes every day of the week, dictating his novels in the morning. 谢尔登每天都进行创作，在上午口述他的小说。
2. He complains that the underlying approach is top-down and involves the government dictating the rules. 他抱怨说这个基本方法是自上而下的并且由政府决定规则。
3. Are you using your dictating machine this morning? 今天早上你用录音机了吗？
4. Mechanical energy rules supreme, and that's dictating where equilibrium lies. 机械能占据主导地位，他决定了平衡的位置。
5. We can have taxpayers pick up students' tuition in exchange for dictating what those students will study. 我们可以让纳税人承担学生的学费，作为交换条件，纳税人换取对这些学生学习内容的支配权。
