We have dictation today.

今天我们要听写了。

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Mr Smith: Now, let's have dictation.

史密斯：现在我们进行听写。

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I didn't like to have dictation at class because I'm poor at spelling and slow at writing.

我不喜欢在课堂上做听写，因为我拼写能力差，而且写得又慢。

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Aides to communications director Don Baer have taken dictation from Morris as he suggested language for a presidential press conference.

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All the same, one thing leads to another with such ease and inexorable logic that the script could have been created by the filmmaker taking dictation from the people on screen.

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