But when this same letter must be dictated to some third person, it will in almost every case be far less vivid, far less intimate.
其實最好的禮物是將最好的自己留給未來。
Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
The anonymous market cannot be dictated to or defeated in debate.
No one shall dictate to me.=I won't be dictated to.
I have seen through you and won't be dictated to any more.
She refused to be dictated to by anyone.
She won't allow herself to be dictated to.