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法律
Laws
One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.
世界上最大的幻想之一是希望这个世界上的罪恶能够通过立法来治愈。
A miracle is not the breaking of the laws of the fallen world. It is the re-establishment of the laws of the kingdom.
奇迹不是打破堕落世界的法则。它是重建王国的法律。
Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
每首诗在“成为”中都产生了它所产生的法则:将法则扩展到其他诗中永远不会完全采用。
Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn.
毫无疑问，这是穿衣品味的最简单法则之一，那就是它不会引起穿者对穿者的过分关注。
A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.
由其自身规律所产生的诗歌，在所谓的审美、判断、演绎的客观原则方面，可能是未实现的，是不好的。
It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.
甚至有可能，没有其起源的法律可能是非理性的，我们永远无法成功地制定它们。
I’ve been told that since the beginning of civilization, millions and millions of laws have not improved on the Ten Commandments one bit.
我被告知，自从人类文明开始以来，数以百万计的法律对十诫一点也没有改进。
We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.
我们生活在一个政治阶段，立法者似乎认为法律的通过比执行结果重要得多。
Congress has repeatedly passed laws and otherwise raised a ruckus about indecent language on the broadcast airwaves used for radio and television.
国会已多次通过法律，并在广播和电视中使用不雅语言引起了轩然大波。
Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them.
法律一般不为三种人所理解，即制定法律的人、执行法律的人以及违反法律的人。
First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.
首先，我们本可以蔑视他们两个国家，本可以因为这违反国际法和干涉我们的中立权利而对这两个国家发动战争。
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The laws that we adopt embody the values and mores of our constituents.
我们所采用的法律体现了我们选民的价值观和道德观。
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
如果你有一万个规章制度，你就破坏了所有对法律的尊重。
He who obeys God's laws finds him a father. He who disobeys them, finds him a judge.
遵守神律法的，就寻得父。不听从他们的，就寻得审判官。
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
恰当地说，所有人类的法律都只是宣告性的;他们对原始正义的实质没有权力。
Laws should act as the lower limits of acceptable behavior, not as a guide to noble action.
法律应该作为可接受行为的下限，而不是高尚行为的指南。
If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
如果你违反了自然法则，你就是你自己的检察官、法官、陪审团和刽子手。