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1. Oxford Dictionary

   law

   • IPA[lɔː]

   英式

   • n.
     the system of rules which a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and which it may enforce by the imposition of penalties；an individual rule as part of a system of law

   • noun: law, plural noun: laws

2. • 釋義
   • 片語

   n.

   名詞

   • 1. the system of rules which a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and which it may enforce by the imposition of penalties shooting the birds is against the law they were taken to court for breaking the law 同義詞 rules and regulations, system of laws, body of laws, constitution, legislation, ... 更多code, legal code, charter, jurisprudence反義詞 anarchy
   • ▪ an individual rule as part of a system of law a new law was passed to make divorce easier and simpler 同義詞 regulation, statute, enactment, act, bill, ... 更多decree, edict, rule, ruling, resolution, promulgation, measure, motion, dictum, command, order, stipulation, commandment, directive, pronouncement, ratification, proclamation, dictate, diktat, fiat, covenant, demand, by-law, ordinance, ukase, pronunciamento
   • ▪ systems of law as a subject of study or as the basis of the legal profession he was still practising law a law firm 同義詞 the legal profession, the bar, barristers and solicitors collectively
   • ▪ statute law and the common law. 同義詞 rules and regulations, system of laws, body of laws, constitution, legislation, ... 更多code, legal code, charter, jurisprudence反義詞 anarchy
   • ▪ something regarded as having binding force or effect he had supreme control—what he said was law
   • ▪ informal the police he'd never been in trouble with the law in his life 同義詞 the police, the officers of the law, the forces of law and order, law-enforcement officers, police officers, ... 更多policemen, policewomen, the police force, the constabulary, informalthe cops, the fuzz, the boys in blue, the long arm of the law, the (Old) Bill, the bobbies, the busies, the bizzies, the coppers, the rozzers, the force, plod, PC Plod, the heat, informal, derogatorythe pigs, the filth, Babylon
   • 2. a rule defining correct procedure or behaviour in a sport the laws of the game 同義詞 rule, regulation, principle, convention, direction, ... 更多instruction, guideline, practice
   • 3. a statement of fact, deduced from observation, to the effect that a particular natural or scientific phenomenon always occurs if certain conditions are present the second law of thermodynamics
   • ▪ a generalization based on a fact or event perceived to be recurrent the first law of American corporate life is that dead wood floats
   • 4. the body of divine commandments as expressed in the Bible or other religious texts. 同義詞 principle, rule, precept, directive, direction, ... 更多injunction, instruction, commandment, prescription, standard, criterion, belief, creed, credo, ethic, maxim, formula, tenet, doctrine, canon, mitzvah
   • ▪ the Pentateuch as distinct from the other parts of the Hebrew Bible (the Prophets and the Writings).
   • ▪ the precepts of the Pentateuch.

   片語

   • at law
   • be a law unto oneself
   • go to law
   • law and order
   • lay down the law
   • take the law into one's own hands
   • take someone to law
   • there's no law against it