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法律和律师
Law And Lawyers
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
我有时希望人们把更多的重点放在遵守法律上，而不是执法上。
I personally think that he did violate the law, that he committed impeachable offenses. But I don't think that he thinks he did.
我个人认为他确实触犯了法律，他犯了可弹劾的罪行。但我不认为他认为他做了。
The jury could get the case as early as next week, but the defense says they just want to introduce one last-minute load of crap.
陪审团最早可能在下周就会审理此案，但辩方表示，他们只是想在最后一分钟引入一堆废话。
Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.
法律不过是为公共利益而制定的某种理性条例，由关心社会的人颁布。
It will be of little avail to the people if the laws are so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
如果法律过于繁冗，无法阅读，或者过于杂乱无章，无法理解，那对人民就没有什么帮助。
The law locks up both man and woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the great felon loose Who steals the common from the goose.
法律把偷公鹅的男人和女人都关了起来，却把偷公鹅的大罪犯放了。
Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.
因为正如良好的道德如果要保持，就需要法律一样，法律如果要遵守，就需要良好的道德。
There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same., so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.
生活的法则是如此残酷而公正，一个人必须成长，否则就得为保持不变付出更多。一个人必须成长，否则就得为保持不变付出更多的代价。
It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.
对于一个制定国家和制定法律的人来说，有必要假设所有的人都是邪恶的，只要他们有自由的空间，他们就会按照他们灵魂的邪恶行事。
The law is not the private property of lawyers, nor is justice the exclusive province of judges and juries. In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.
法律不是律师的私有财产，正义也不是法官和陪审团的专属领域。归根结底，真正的正义不是法庭和法律书籍的问题，而是我们每个人对自由和相互尊重的承诺。
The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.
法律是一种灵巧的风俗习惯的混合体，这些风俗习惯有益于社会，即使没有法律存在，也可以遵循;而另一些风俗习惯则有利于统治少数人，但对大多数人有害，只能通过恐怖手段强加于他们。
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We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.
我们不是作为一个超级立法机构来衡量立法的智慧。
For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained.
因为律法既是必须的、〔有古卷在此有良善的规条〕照样、也必须有良善的规条、〔有古卷在此有良善的规条〕律法才能保全。
To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
要保持对香肠和法律的尊重，就不能眼睁睁地看着它们的制作过程。
The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.
在这个国家通往最高职位的唯一道路是法律。
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
有瑕疵的钻石胜过无瑕疵的鹅卵石。
Give us kinder laws to bring us back when we're a-going wrong and don't set Jail, Jail, Jail afore us everywhere we turn.
当我们犯错的时候，给我们更仁慈的法律把我们带回来，不要把监狱，监狱，监狱放在我们面前，无论我们走到哪里。