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基本解釋

The choice of computer is dictated by our special needs.
對計算機的選擇取決于我們的特殊需求。
It's all dictated by the level of background noise in their listening environment.
這些設(shè)置都取決于他們收聽環(huán)境中的背景噪音水平。
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The bottom-up approach tends to lead to poor business-service abstractions in case the design is dictated by the existing IT environment, rather than existing and future business needs.
在設(shè)計取決于現(xiàn)有的 IT 環(huán)境而不是現(xiàn)在和將來的業(yè)務(wù)需要的情況下，自底向上的方法往往會導(dǎo)致不好的業(yè)務(wù)服務(wù)抽象。

Your mortgage payment is constant through time but the fraction of it that goes to paying off principal versus interest changes through time and it just changes as dictated by this formula.
抵押貸款每月還款是固定的,但是其中本金和利息的比例關(guān)系,會隨時間而改變,這是由這個公式所決定的
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The timing and the positioning of these events were dictated by the political season.
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The amount you spend during the holidays is dictated by the available balance on your cards.
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Is it mainly dictated by the clock and these things -- the tax cuts that expire?
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