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law —法 n (almost always used) ()法律 n ()Examples:United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea—girl adopted ina family as future daughter-in-law—carry out official duties and observe the law—judge (i.e. to hear and pass judgment in a law court)—Fayuan or Source of the Law temple in Beijing—the seat of the Law, on which the one who explains the doctrine is seated (Buddhism)—City Urban Administrative and Law Enforcement Bureau (PRC)—Paul Lafargue (1842-1911), French socialist and revolutionary activist, son-in-law of Karl Marx—loss (of sth through natural disaster, theft etc) (law)—the inverse square law of electrostatic forces—lit. heaven's law and earth's principle (idiom); fig. right and proper—know the law and break it (idiom); consciously going against the rules—regardless of the law and of natural morality (idiom); maverick—refers a son-in-law living with wife's family—corruption and abuse of the law (idiom); take bribes and bend the law—with no regard for law or discipline (idiom); flouting the law and disregarding all rules—Chinese Exclusion Act, a US law restricting Chinese immigration from 1882-1943—National Key Disciplines (disciplines recognized as important and supported by PRC central government, including medicine, science, chemistry, engineering, commerce and law)—pronounce a sentence (after a verdict in a court of law)—Avogadro's law, a gas law named after Amedeo Avogadro—"Pirate Party", political movement whose main goal is reform copyright law in line with the Internet Era—polite address for an elderly man, or a woman's father-in-law—maintain the law as firm as a mountain (idiom); to enforce the law strictly—unacceptable as uncorroborated evidence (in law or in textual criticism)—the inverse square law (in gravitation or electrostatics)—substitute one's words for the law and abuse power to crush it (idiom); completely lawless behavior—break the law and commit crimes (idiom); malefactor—anti-secession law of 2005 (whereby PRC claims the right invade Taiwan)—flowering autumn grass, fine net (idiom); fig. abundant and exacting punishments prescribed by law— |