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近义词formula principle rule act standard ordinance fiat edict regulation decree

n. 法律；规律；法治；法学；诉讼；司法界
vi. 起诉；控告
vt. 控告；对…起诉
n. (Law)人名；(东南亚国家华语)刘；(英、缅、柬)劳

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词态变化

复数: laws;

中文词源

law 法律

来自PIE*legh,放置，词源同lie,lay.引申词义放置的标杆，准绳，法规，法律等。词义演变比较doom,statute。

英英释意

1. legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity;: "there is a law against kidnapping"

2. the collection of rules imposed by authority;: "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"

3. a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature;: "the laws of thermodynamics"

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;: "he studied law at Yale"

6. the force of policemen and officers;: "the law came looking for him"

7. the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do

英文词源

law: law: [10] Etymologically, a law is that which has been ‘laid’ down. English borrowed the word from Old Norse *lagu (replacing the native Old English ǣ ‘law’), which was the plural of lag ‘laying, good order’. This came ultimately from the prehistoric Germanic base *lag- ‘put’, from which English gets lay. It has no etymological connection with the semantically similar legal.
=> lay
law (n.): Old English lagu (plural laga, comb. form lah-) "law, ordinance, rule, regulation; district governed by the same laws," from Old Norse *lagu "law," collective plural of lag "layer, measure, stroke," literally "something laid down or fixed," from Proto-Germanic *lagan "put, lay" (see lay (v.)).

Replaced Old English æ and gesetnes, which had the same sense development as law. Compare also statute, from Latin statuere; German Gesetz "law," from Old High German gisatzida; Lithuanian istatymas, from istatyti "set up, establish." In physics, from 1660s. Law and order have been coupled since 1796.

同义词辨析

law, constitution, regulation, code, rule, act

这些名词均有"法同，法规"之意。

law：普通用词，泛指由最高当局所制订、立法机构所通过的任何成文或不成文的法规或条例。

constitution：指治理国家或国家在处理内外政务时所遵循的基本法律和原则；也指规章规则的汇集。

regulation：普通用词，指用于管理、指导或控制某系统或组织的规则、规定或原则等。

code：指某一阶层或社会所遵守的一整套法典、法规或法则；也可指与某一特殊活动或主题有关的规则。

rule：通常指机关、团体的规章、条例或比赛规则；也指对人行为、方法等所作的规定，还可指习俗所承认的规定。

act：指经立法机构通过并由行政管理签署的法案。

principle, theorem, fundamental, law

这些名词均有"原理，原则"之意。

principle：普通用词，含义广。指作判断的基础或行动的普通准则；也指自然科学的规律。

theorem：多指经过推理或演算能得到证明的原理、定理或定律。

fundamental：通常指原理、原则。

law：指一直公认的。陈述各种现象的条理或关系的公理或定理等。

考试真题

When governments lose their control on power, law and order begin to disintegrate.

Under the law in Massachusetts, tobacco companies have to measure the nicotine content of every type of cigarette and report the results.

Snow White is available for everyone to use, but the dwarfs are still under copyright, so Cornetti invented sound-alike characters ( ' , Grumpy Gus, Dopey Dan) to illustrate specific pay roll law principles.

Oil prices may rise or fall but economic laws are not subject to change.

Its effects on the global economy go against existing economic laws.

It has now a new law to follow.

In April, France passed a law setting lower limits for a model's weight.

Another training, this one for pay roll law, used a Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs theme.

Unfortunately, many federal and state laws impose post-conviction restrictions on a shockingly large number of Americans, who are prevented from ever fully paying their debt to society.

Some laws make sense.

Should a woman who possessed a small amount of drugs years ago be permanently unable to be licensed as a nurse?These laws are also counterproductive, since they make it harder for people with criminal records to find housing or land a job, two key factors that reduce backsliding.

Laws can restrict or ban voting, access to public housing, and professional and business licensing.

In all, more than 45,000 laws and rules serve to exclude vast numbers of people from fully participating in American life.

"Snow White" is available for everyone to use, but the "dwarfs" are still under copyright, so Cornetti invented sound-alike characters Grumpy Gus, Dopey Da to illustrate specific pay roll law principles.

But most importantly, it is against the law.

Even when they stay on the right side of the law, Internet providers arouse customers' anger over bandwidth speed and cost.

If all four bills pass as written, they would represent a substantial update of michigan's 2013 law that allowed the testing of self-driving vehicles in limited conditions.

If the law isn't there, people will drive within their ability range.

The law orders us to pay taxes.

They are more likely to grow up in neighborhoods that their parents say aren't great for raising children, and their parents worry about them getting shot, beaten up or in trouble with the law.

The British traveler Charles Thompson spoke for many Grand Tourists when in 1744 he described himself as being impatiently desirous of viewing a country so famous in history, a country which once gave laws to the world, and which is at present the greatest school of music and painting, contains the noblest productions of sculpture and architecture, and is filled with cabinets of rarities, and collections of all kinds of historical relics.

The bills would lock that pledge into law.

Recently, we examined more than 400 essays on the laws of life that teens from two communities had written as part of an educational program initiated by the John Templeton Foundation in Radnor, Pa.

No law required the involvement of a third party in certification.

Pass a law to standardise cigarette packaging.

Higher education institutions are, under federal law, required to report graduation rates, but these reports typically only include Pell recipient number—not necessarily rates specific to first-generation students.

"As advocates of children's rights, we believe that children should have a voice about what information is shared about them if possible," says Stacey Steinberg, a legal skills professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law in Gainesville.

For decades, researchers and law enforcement agencies have tried to build a machine that will do the same thing.

higher education institutions are, under federal law, required to report graduation rates, but these reports typically only include Pell recipient number — not necessarily rates specific to first-generation students.

If Apple is forced to open up an iPhone for an American law enforcement investigation, what is to prevent it from doing so for a request from the Russians or the Iranians?

It seems to be a law in the technology industry that leading companies eventually lose their positions, often quickly and brutally .

Related to the "use-it-or-lose-It law" is the "keep-moving principle".

Robots must obey humans, except where the order would conflict with Law 1.

So, while there may be insights to be gained from matching behavior to brain activity, those insights will I not necessarily lead to justice in a court of law.

The battle between Apple and law enforcement officials over unlocking a terrorist's smartphone is the culmination of a slow turning of the tables between the technology industry and the United States government.

The order essentially asks Apple to hack its own devices, and once it is in place, the precedent could be used to justify law enforcement efforts to get around encryption technologies in other investigations far removed from national security threats.

The robot who rescues Spooner's life in I, Robot follows Asimov's zeroth larobots cannot harm humanity as opposed to individual humans or allow humanity to come to harm—an expansion of the first law that allows robots to determine what's in the greater go

There's been little research on the topic, Steinberg wrote in a law article about this issue.

Under the first law, a robot could not harm a dangerous gunman, but under the zeroth law, a robot could kill the gunman to save others.

And Athenians willingly obeyed the written laws which they themselves passed, and the unwritten, which must be obeyed if free men live together.

As executives with banks, consulting firms, established law firms, and major corporations, many are now well on their way to impressive careers.

Before modern medicine changed the laws of nature, many children died of common childhood diseases.

Even president obama's mother-in-law, marian Robinson, has agreed to leave Chicago and into the White House to help care for her granddaughters.

From the governments' point of view, a primary goal of laws requiring extended producer responsibility is to transfer both the cost and the physical responsibility of waste management from the government and tax-payers back to the producers.

Her lack of proper training in law.

I got so angry with him for laying down the law.

I talk to them about how the law helps people solve their problems.

In 1897, the state of Michigan passed a law prohibiting the killing of passenger pigeons but by then, no sizable flocks had been seen in the state for 10 years.

In theory, they should live by the French law is often ignored or unknown, thus making them into an interesting area of "lawlessness" in the world.

It can uncover laws of nature, cure diseases, make bombs, and help bridges to stand up.

It should be the main concern of law makers.

Making things worse are state laws that make it too easy to opt out of what are supposed to be required vaccines for all children entering kindergarten.

Now, several states are moving to tighten laws by adding new regulations for opting out.

People believing in freedom are those who behave within the laws and value systems.

Surprisingly, these people live largely by their own laws and their own social customs.

They often ignore the guianese law.

They seldom follow the French law.

Today, it's hard to find a public school, university, or law school that does not have such a kind of program.

When Sandra Day O'Connor finished third in her class at stanford law school, in 1952, she could not find work at a law firm because she was a woman.

wegner, a patent attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

Although more than half of Harvard undergraduates end up in law, medicine or business, future doctors and lawyers must study a non- specialist liberal-arts degree before embarking on a professional qualification.

Newton’s laws of motion and Darwinian evolution each bind a host of different phenomena into a single explicatory frame work.

The White House argued that Arizona's laws conflicted with its enforcement priorities, even if state laws complied with federal statutes to the letter.

On a five to three vote,the Supreme Court knocked out much of Arizona's immigration law Monday-a modest policy victory for the Obama Aministration.

In effect, the White House claimed that it could invalidate any otherwise legitimate state law that it disagrees with.

In Arizona v.United States,the majority overturned three of the four contested provisions of Arizona's controversial plan to have state and local police enforce federal immigration law.

However,the Justices said that Arizona police would be allowed to verify the legal status of people who come in contact with law enforcement.

This leaves today’s average law-school graduate with $100, 000 of debt on top of undergraduate debts.

There is pressure for change from within the profession, but opponents of change among the regulators insist that keeping outsiders out of a law firm isolates lawyers from the pressure to make money rather than serve clients ethically.

There is just one path for a lawyer in most American states: a four-year undergraduate degree in some unrelated subject, then a three-year law degree at one of 200 law schools authorized by the American Bar Association and an expensive preparation for the bar exam.

The best lawyers made skyscrapers-full of money, tempting ever more students to pile into law schools.

One idea is to allow people to study law as an undergraduate degree.

Law-school debt means that they have to work fearsomely hard.

In fact, allowing non-lawyers to own shares in law firms would reduce costs and improve services to customers, by encouraging law firms to use technology and to employ professional managers to focus on improving firms’ efficiency.

Except in the District of Columbia, non-lawyers may not own any share of a law firm.

But most law graduates never get a big-firm job.

Another is to let students sit for the bar after only two years of law school.

Orin Kerr, a law professor, compares the explosion and accessibility of digital information in the 21st century with the establishment of automobile use as a virtual necessity of life in the 20th: The justices had to specify novel rules for the new personal domain of the passenger car then; they must sort out how the Fourth Amendment applies to digital information now.

Under the law, using a fashion model that does not meet a government-defined index of body mass could result in a $85,000 fine and six months in prison.

Relying on ethical persuasion rather than law to address the misuse of body ideals may be the best step.

Its lawmakers gave preliminary approval last week to a law that would make it a crime to employ ultra-thin models on runways.

But at least they have demonstrated that when companies get into trouble with the law, evidence of good character can win them less costly punishment.

This type of integrity requires well-enforced laws in government transparency, such as records of official meetings, rules on lobbying, and information about each elected leader’s source of wealth.

Soon after his father’s release from prison, Dickens got a better job as errand boy in law offices.

But under anti-bribery laws, proof must be made of concrete benefits, such as approval of a contract or regulation.

The use of privacy law to curb the tech giants in this instance feels slightly maladapted.

Privacy law builds on the concept of damage to an individual from identifiable knowledge about them.

Denham chose to concentrate the blame on the NHS trust, since under existing law it.

Competition law appears to be the only way to address these imbalances of power.

Competition law as presently interpreted deals with financial disadvantage to consumers and this is not obvious when the users of these services don't pay for them.

Constitutional law is political because it results from choices rooted in fundamental social concepts like liberty and property.

Except in the district of Columbia, non-lawyers may not own any share of a law firm.

However, the Justices said that Arizona police would be allowed to verify the legal status of people who come in contact with law enforcement.

If the bills become law, state boards and commissions will be required to set aside 50 percent of board seats for women by 2022.

In fact, allowing non-lawyers to own shares in law firms would reduce costs and improve services to customers, by encouraging law firms to use technology and to employ professional managers to focus on improving firms'efficiency.

In signing the measure, California Governor Jerry Brown admitted that the law, which expressly classifies people on the basis of sex, is probably unconstitutional.

Many Americans regard the jury system as a concrete expression of crucial democratic values, including the principles that all citizens who meet minimal qualifications of age and literacy are equally competent to serve on juries; that jurors should be sel

On a five to three vote, the Supreme Court knocked out much of Arizona's immigration law Monday-a modest policy victory for the Obama Administration.

Orin Kerr, a law professor, compares the explosion and accessibility of digital information in the 21st century with the establishment of automobile use as a virtual necessity of life in the 20th: The justices had to specify novel rules for the new person

Our legal system was designed to set law apart from politics precisely because they are so closely tied.

Soon after his father's release from prison, Dickens got a better job as errand boy in law offices.

That would make rulings more likely to be seen as separate from politics and, as a result, convincing as law.

The court cannot maintain its legitimacy as guardian of the rule of law when justices behave like politicians.

The framers of the Constitution envisioned law as having authority apart from politics.

The US Supreme Court frowns on sex-based classifications unless they are designed to address an "important" policy interest, Because the California law applies to all boards, even where there is no history of prior discrimination, courts are likely to rul

There is just one path for a lawyer in most American states: a four-year undergraduate degree in some unrelated subject, then a three-year law degree at one of 200 law schools authorized by the American Bar Association and an expensive preparation for the

These have included Britain's DPT diverted profits tax, Australia's MAAL multinational anti-avoidance law, and India's SEP significant economic presence test, to name but a few.

This law abolished special educational requirements for federal jurors and required them to be selected at random from a cross section of the entire community.

Under the law, using a fashion model that does not meet a government-defined index of body mass could result in a $85, 000 fine and six months in prison.

When the court deals with social policy decisions, the law it shapes is inescapably political-which is why decisions split along ideological lines are so easily dismissed as unjust.

词组搭配

at (或in) law

according to or concerned with the laws of a country

依法，与法律有关

an agreement enforceable at law.
可依法实施的协议。
a barrister-at-law.
法律顾问。

be a law unto oneself

behave in a manner that is not conventional or predictable

（行为）反复无常，一意孤行

go to law

resort to legal action in order to settle a matter

诉诸法律

law and order

a situation characterized by respect for and obedience to the rules of a society

治安，法律与秩序

the law of the jungle

lay down the law

issue instructions to other people in an authoritative or dogmatic way

权威性命令，严令

take the law into one's own hands

punish someone for an offence according to one's own ideas of justice, especially in an illegal or violent way

不顾法律擅自处理

take someone to law

initiate legal proceedings against someone

绳之以法

there's no law against it

(informal)used in spoken English to assert that one is doing nothing wrong, especially in response to an actual or implied criticism

(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

I can laugh, can't I? There's no law against it.
我可以笑，不是吗？法律又不禁止。

a law unto (oneself)

A totally independent operator

独断专行：完全独立的经营者

An executive who is a law unto herself.
自行其是的女领导

take the law into (one's) own hands

To mete out justice as one sees fit without due recourse to law enforcement agencies or the courts.

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

实用场景例句

If they entered the building they would be breaking the law .: 如果进入那栋大楼，他们就会触犯法律。

In Sweden it is against the law to hit a child.: 在瑞典打小孩是违法的。

Defence attorneys can use any means within the law to get their client off.: 辩护律师可在法律许可的范围内利用任何手段为当事人作无罪辩护。

British schools are now required by law to publish their exam results.: 现在英国的学校得按法律规定公布考试结果。

The reforms have recently become law .: 这些改革最近已成为法律。

Do not think you are above the law (= think that you cannot be punished by the law) .: 别以为你能凌驾于法律之上。

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。

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。

...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 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。

...inflexible moral laws.: 不容改变的道德准则

The laws of nature are absolute.: 自然法则至高无上。

...the law of gravity.: 万有引力定律

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

...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

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。

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。

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