Edict

edict



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[ee-dikt]

官方命令,勒令,佈告



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–noun 

1. a decree issued by 

a 

sovereign or other authority. 



2. any authoritative proclamation or command.





　

But what's worse is that they and their cohorts (Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Larisa Oleynik) have such confused motivations and wronghead[ed] impulses that they often act completely out of character, leaving the movie with little internal consistency. 



Or perhaps it's just that this particular Shakespeare text shouldn't be updated: What father makes a rule that one of his daughters can't date until after the other -- and why would his daughters view this as an [in]surmountable edict? 



Still, 10 Things is better than these weakest parts; it has some charming moments mixed in with the extreme teen stereotypes at its core. And it's valuable if only for [announcing] the arrival of Stiles and Ledger -- 



she a non-traditional beauty with spunk, he a young Aussie [channel]ing the charm of Mel Gibson. If nothing else, there are at least ten things to like about them.





motto

Punk rock's first great embodiment of the motto "live fast and die young," Sid Vicious joined The Sex Pistols when they were already established as the most controversial rock band in British history

truism

a self-evident, obvious truth.

but it does suggest a few [pop-song] truisms

dictum

an authoritative saying, maxim 

the ultimate expression of Tati's dictum of "democracy" within the frame.

Innuendo