law
n. 法; 法學; 規律; 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...
猥褻和恐嚇電話都是違法的。
They are seeking permission to begin criminal proceedings against him for breaking the law on financing political parties...
他們正尋求取得對他提起刑事訴訟的許可令,以控告他違反了有關政黨資助的法律。
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...
他是哈佛大學法學院的刑法學教授。
Under international law, diplomats living in foreign countries are exempt from criminal prosecution...
根據國際法,駐外外交官員免受刑事檢控。
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...
該國開明的政治庇護法
The law was passed on a second vote.
此法在第二次表決時透過。
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...
英國國教會的教規
Match officials should not tolerate such behaviour but instead enforce the laws of the game.
賽事官員不應縱容這種行為,而應嚴格執行比賽規則。
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.
不容改變的道德準則
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.
自然法則至高無上。
A law is a scientific rule that someone has invented to explain a particular natural process.
...the law of gravity.
萬有引力定律
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...
法律行業對年輕人的吸引力越來越大。
Nearly 100 law firms are being referred to the Solicitors' Disciplinary Tribunal.
近百家律師事務所被送上律師紀律法庭。
Law is the study of systems of law and how laws work.
He came to Oxford and studied law...
他來到牛津學習法律。
He holds a law degree from Bristol University.
他擁有布里斯托爾大學的法律學位。
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...
議會一名反對黨議員指責政府意圖凌駕於法律之上。
He considered himself above the law.
他自以為比法還大。
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.
根據平均律,我們不會再輸下去了。
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...
根據法律,所有餐廳都必須在店外明示用餐價格。
Minicabs are prohibited by law from touting passers-by for business.
無標誌的預約型計程車沿街拉客是非法的。
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,但沒有告贏我們。
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.
認為應對子女發號施令的傳統的家長們
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.
憤怒的當地人以暴代法——將超速司機強行按在地上,直至警察趕來。
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.
某些土地所有者目無法紀。他們橫行霸道,魚肉鄉民。
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
這些名詞均有"法同,法規"之意。
principle, theorem, fundamental, law
這些名詞均有"原理,原則"之意。
at (或in) law
依法,與法律有關
be a law unto oneself
(行為)反覆無常,一意孤行
go to law
訴諸法律
law and order
治安,法律與秩序
the law of the jungle
lay down the law
權威性命令,嚴令
take the law into one's own hands
不顧法律擅自處理
take someone to law
繩之以法
there's no law against it
(非正式)[口語中表示沒有做錯,尤用於迴應批評]法律又不禁止
a law unto (oneself)
獨斷專行:完全獨立的經營者
take the law into (one's) own hands
隨意處罰:以某人自己覺得適合的方式給予司法處罰,而不透過正當程式訴諸法律執行機關或法庭
He is studying law.
他在研讀法學.
The police are guardians of law and order.
警察是法律和秩序的護衛者.
The old law could sentence a woman to an unbearable marriage for life, but this is now all changing.
舊法律能夠迫使婦女終身接受不堪忍受的婚姻, 但這種情況現在已經完全改變了.
This law will deprive us of our most basic rights.
這條法律將剝奪我們最基本的權利.
They're standing out against any change in the law.
他們堅決反對對法律做任何修改.