precept

英 [ˈpriːsept]

美 [ˈpriːsept]

n.  (思想、行为的)准则，规范

复数：precepts　现在分词：precepting　第三人称单数：precepts　过去分词：precepted　过去式：precepted　

GRE经济

BNC.14293 / COCA.13906

牛津词典

noun

• （思想、行为的）准则，规范
  a rule about how to behave or what to think

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 准则；规范；戒律
  Apreceptis a general rule that helps you to decide how you should behave in particular circumstances.
  1. ...an electoral process based on the precept that all men are born equal.
     以所有人生而平等这一准则为基础的选举程序
  2. ...the precepts of Buddhism.
     佛教的戒律

英英释义

noun

• a doctrine that is taught
  1. the teachings of religion
  2. he believed all the Christian precepts
  Synonym:teachingcommandment
• rule of personal conduct
  Synonym:principle

双语例句

• A fundamental design precept is that a class should be part of a domain package only if it exists to fulfill the goals of that domain package.
  一个基本的设计规则就是，一个类只要存在并去完成一个域包的目标，那么它就应该是该域包的一部分。
• We give them the passion for truth: founded on precept or example, truth is the beginning of every good thing; the power and the faith engendering mutual trust.
  我们要给予他们追求真理的激情：真理建立在言传身教的基础上，是一切美好事情的开始，是带来相互信任的力量和信念。
• If, for example, the precept against killing allowed you to kill living beings when their presence is inconvenient, that would place your convenience on a higher level than your compassion for life.
  举例来说，假设杀生戒允许你在其它生灵的存在对你不便时把它们杀死，那样就把你的方便放在了高于你对生命的慈悲的位置。
• Virtue here, has only just one single precept that one must really seriously care for; to look after the mind, it is morality of the mind.
  这里讲的善德只有一条戒，每个人都必须确实认真的持守，那就是&照顾这颗心，这是内在心灵的道德。
• All the Levites, that Moses and Aaron numbered according to the precept of the Lord, by their families, of the male kind from one month and upward, were twenty-two thousand.
  梅瑟和亚郎照上主的命令，统计了所有的肋未人，按家族凡一月以上的男性都统计了，共计二万二千人。
• Do other men, for they would do you; that's the true business precept.
  你不吃人，人就吃你这就是真本生意经。
• The son HAD well profited by the precept and example of the father.
  老太爷的言传身教早已使他儿子获益无穷。
• The first, the revolutionary precept of the hate crime.
  首先制定了仇恨罪行的革命性方针。
• Example is better than precept.
  言教不如身教。
• In the Anglo-American system, of course, precedent is a fundamental precept.
  当然，在英美法系中，先例是基本的规则。