law
n. 法; 法学; 规律; 法制
The law is a system of rules that a society or government develops in order to deal with crime, business agreements, and social relationships. You can also use the law to refer to the people who work in this system.
Obscene and threatening phone calls are against the law...
猥亵和恐吓电话都是违法的。
They are seeking permission to begin criminal proceedings against him for breaking the law on financing political parties...
他们正寻求取得对他提起刑事诉讼的许可令,以控告他违反了有关政党资助的法律。
Law is used to refer to a particular branch of the law, such as criminal law or company law.
He was a professor of criminal law at Harvard University law school...
他是哈佛大学法学院的刑法学教授。
Under international law, diplomats living in foreign countries are exempt from criminal prosecution...
根据国际法,驻外外交官员免受刑事检控。
A law is one of the rules in a system of law which deals with a particular type of agreement, relationship, or crime.
...the country's liberal political asylum law...
该国开明的政治庇护法
The law was passed on a second vote.
此法在第二次表决时通过。
The laws of an organization or activity are its rules, which are used to organize and control it.
...the laws of the Church of England...
英国国教会的教规
Match officials should not tolerate such behaviour but instead enforce the laws of the game.
赛事官员不应纵容这种行为,而应严格执行比赛规则。
A law is a rule or set of rules for good behaviour which is considered right and important by the majority of people for moral, religious, or emotional reasons.
...inflexible moral laws.
不容改变的道德准则
A law is a natural process in which a particular event or thing always leads to a particular result.
The laws of nature are absolute.
自然法则至高无上。
A law is a scientific rule that someone has invented to explain a particular natural process.
...the law of gravity.
万有引力定律
Law or the law is all the professions which deal with Advising people about the law, representing people in court, or giving decisions and punishments.
A career in law is becoming increasingly attractive to young people...
法律行业对年轻人的吸引力越来越大。
Nearly 100 law firms are being referred to the Solicitors' Disciplinary Tribunal.
近百家律师事务所被送上律师纪律法庭。
Law is the study of systems of law and how laws work.
He came to Oxford and studied law...
他来到牛津学习法律。
He holds a law degree from Bristol University.
他拥有布里斯托尔大学的法律学位。
If you accuse someone of thinking they are above the law, you criticize them for thinking that they are so clever or important that they do not need to obey the law.
One opposition member of parliament accuses the government of wanting to be above the law...
议会一名反对党议员指责政府意图凌驾于法律之上。
He considered himself above the law.
他自以为比法还大。
The law of averages is the idea that something is sure to happen at some time, because of the number of times it generally happens or is expected to happen.
On the law of averages we just can't go on losing.
根据平均律,我们不会再输下去了。
If you have to do something by law or if you are not allowed to do something by law, the law states that you have to do it or that you are not allowed to do it.
By law all restaurants must display their prices outside...
根据法律,所有餐厅都必须在店外明示用餐价格。
Minicabs are prohibited by law from touting passers-by for business.
无标志的预约型出租车沿街拉客是非法的。
If you go to law, you go to court in order to get a legal judgment on a dispute.
He went to law and did not succeed in his claim against us.
他告上了法庭,但没有告赢我们。
If you say that someone lays down the law, you are critical of them because they give other people orders and they think that they are always right.
...traditional parents, who believed in laying down the law for their offspring.
认为应对子女发号施令的传统的家长们
If someone takes the law into their own hands, they punish someone or do something to put a situation right, instead of waiting for the police or the legal system to take action.
The speeding motorist was pinned to the ground by angry locals who took the law into their own hands until police arrived.
愤怒的当地人以暴代法——将超速司机强行按在地上,直至警察赶来。
If you say that someone is a law unto himself or herself, you mean that they behave in an independent way, ignoring laws, rules, or conventional ways of doing things.
Some of the landowners were a law unto themselves. There was nobody to check their excesses and they exploited the people.
某些土地所有者目无法纪。他们横行霸道,鱼肉乡民。
1. legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity;
2. the collection of rules imposed by authority;
3. a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature;
4. a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society
5. the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system;
6. the force of policemen and officers;
7. the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
law, constitution, regulation, code, rule, act
这些名词均有"法同,法规"之意。
principle, theorem, fundamental, law
这些名词均有"原理,原则"之意。
at (或in) law
依法,与法律有关
be a law unto oneself
(行为)反复无常,一意孤行
go to law
诉诸法律
law and order
治安,法律与秩序
the law of the jungle
lay down the law
权威性命令,严令
take the law into one's own hands
不顾法律擅自处理
take someone to law
绳之以法
there's no law against it
(非正式)[口语中表示没有做错,尤用于回应批评]法律又不禁止
a law unto (oneself)
独断专行:完全独立的经营者
take the law into (one's) own hands
随意处罚:以某人自己觉得适合的方式给予司法处罚,而不通过正当程序诉诸法律执行机关或法庭
He is studying law.
他在研读法学.
The police are guardians of law and order.
警察是法律和秩序的护卫者.
The old law could sentence a woman to an unbearable marriage for life, but this is now all changing.
旧法律能够迫使妇女终身接受不堪忍受的婚姻, 但这种情况现在已经完全改变了.
This law will deprive us of our most basic rights.
这条法律将剥夺我们最基本的权利.
They're standing out against any change in the law.
他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改.