名词

1. 法律（体系）；法律界人士
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.

2. （用于指某一种法律）刑法/公司法
Law is used to refer to a particular branch of the law, such as criminal law or company law.

3. （针对某种协议、关系或罪行的）法律，法
A law is one of the rules in a system of law which deals with a particular type of agreement, relationship, or crime.

4. （组织或活动的）规则，规章，条例
The laws of an organization or activity are its rules, which are used to organize and control it.

5. 准则；规矩；道理
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.

6. 规律；法则
A law is a natural process in which a particular event or thing always leads to a particular result.

7. 定律；定理
A law is a scientific rule that someone has invented to explain a particular natural process.

8. 司法界；法律行业
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.

9. 法学
Law is the study of systems of law and how laws work.

10. see also: court of law;rule of law

11. 凌驾于法律之上；高于法律
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.

12. 平均律
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.

13. 根据法律；依法
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.

14. 诉诸法律；提起诉讼；打官司
If you go to law, you go to court in order to get a legal judgment on a dispute.

15. （自以为是地）发号施令
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.

16. 不通过法律自行解决，以暴代法（以惩罚他人或摆平某事）
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.

17. （无视法律或惯例而）我行我素，自行其是
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.

18. Sod's law - see sod

1. the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system

e.g. he studied law at Yale

Synonym: practice of law

2. a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society

Synonym: natural law

3. a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature

e.g. the laws of thermodynamics

Synonym: law of nature

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

Synonym: jurisprudencelegal philosophy

5. legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity

e.g. there is a law against kidnapping

6. the force of policemen and officers

e.g. the law came looking for him

Synonym: policepolice forceconstabulary

7. the collection of rules imposed by authority

e.g. civilization presupposes respect for the law
the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order

Synonym: jurisprudence