Precept

(v. t.) To teach by precepts.

科林整理

• How much of the practice I have just reduced to precept, I owe to Agnes, I will not repeat here. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Example is notoriously more potent than precept. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• My precept is, Do something, my sister, do good if you can; but, at any rate, do something. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Albeit it was as much against the precepts of his school to wonder, as it was against the doctrines of the Gradgrind College. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• The young man inclines his head in acknowledgment of the precepts of experience. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• He would hear services intoned before this divinity, and certain precepts, which would be dimly familiar to him, murmured as responses. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• These names of _virtues_, with their precepts, were, 1. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• A single day well spent, and as thy precepts direct, is to be preferred to an eternity of sin. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.

整理:马库斯