国防部 國防部 guó fáng bù Defense Department / Ministry of National Defense 国防部长 國防部長 guó fáng bù zhǎng Defense secretary / Defense Minister 美国国防部 美國國防部 měi guó guó fáng bù United States Department of Defense / Department of Defense 正当防卫 正當防衛 zhèng dàng fáng wèi reasonable self-defense / legitimate defense KAZE-布隆迪保卫民主力量 KAZE-布隆迪保衛民主力量 Kaze-Forces for the Defense of Democracy, Forces pour la défense de la démocratie / Kaze-FDD 保卫民主全国委员会－保卫民主力量 保衛民主全國委員會－保衛民主力量 Conseil national pour la défense de la démocratie-Forces pour la défense de la démocratie 捍卫民主阵线 捍衛民主陣線 Front pour la défense de la démocratie / Forces de défense de la démocratie 防卫过当 防衛過當 fáng wèi guò dàng excessive self-defense (self-defense with excessive force) 公司法 gōng sī fǎ corporations law / company law / corporate law 王法 wáng fǎ the law / the law of the land / the law of a state (in former times) / criterion syn 协议法 xié yì fǎ treaty-made law / treaty-created law / treaty law 抗辩 抗辯 kàng biàn to counter accusations / to protest / to remonstrate / to retort / to plead / to demur / a plea (of not guilty) / a defense (against an allegation) / to enter a plea to a charge (in a law court) 控辩 控辯 kòng biàn the prosecution and the defense (law) 欧洲安全和防卫政策法治特派团 歐洲安全和防衛政策法治特派團 European Security and Defense Policy Rule of Law Mission / European Security and Defence Policy Mission / ESDP Mission 安全防卫团 安全防衛團 European Security and Defense Policy Rule of Law Mission / European Security and Defence Policy Mission / ESDP Mission 执法 執法 zhí fǎ to enforce a law / law enforcement 法治 fǎ zhì rule of law / to rule by law syn 定律 dìng lǜ scientific law (e.g. law of conservation of energy) / (in human affairs) a generalization based on observation (e.g. "power corrupts") syn 天道 tiān dào natural law / heavenly law / weather (dialect) syn 护法 護法 hù fǎ to keep the law / to protect Buddha's teachings / protector of Buddhist law (i.e. temple donor) 亲家 親家 qìng jia parents of one's daughter-in-law or son-in-law / relatives by marriage syn 婆媳 pó xí mother-in-law and daughter-in-law 严刑 嚴刑 yán xíng strict law / cruel punishment / to carry out cruel law rigorously syn 起诉书 起訴書 qǐ sù shū indictment (law) / statement of charges (law) syn 法政 fá zhèng law and government / law and politics syn 贪赃枉法 貪贓枉法 tān zāng wǎng fǎ corruption and abuse of the law (idiom) / to take bribes and bend the law syn 以身试法 以身試法 yǐ shēn shì fǎ to challenge the law (idiom) / to knowingly violate the law syn 习惯法 習慣法 xí guàn fǎ customary law / common law 执法如山 執法如山 zhí fǎ rú shān to maintain the law as firm as a mountain (idiom) / to enforce the law strictly syn 阿伏伽德罗定律 阿伏伽德羅定律 ā fú jiā dé luó dìng lǜ Avogadro's law, a gas law named after Amedeo Avogadro 库仑定律 庫侖定律 kù lún dìng lǜ Coulomb's law / the inverse square law of electrostatic forces 以言代法 yǐ yán dài fǎ to substitute one's words for the law (idiom) / high-handedly putting one's orders above the law 受法律保护权 受法律保護權 shòu fǎ lǜ bǎo hù quán right to protection by law (law) 守分 shǒu fèn to abide by the law / to respect the law 小婿 xiǎo xù my son-in-law (humble) / I (spoken to parents-in-law) 扒灰 pá huī incest between father-in-law and daughter-in-law 服法 fú fǎ to submit to the law / to obey the law / administration method (of medicine) 法外 fǎ wài outside the law / beyond the law / extrajudicial 爬灰 pá huī incest between father-in-law and daughter-in-law / also written 扒灰 目无法纪 目無法紀 mù wú fǎ jì with no regard for law or discipline (idiom) / flouting the law and disregarding all rules / in complete disorder syn 难逃法网 難逃法網 nán táo fǎ wǎng It is hard to escape the dragnet of the law / the long arm of the law 武装冲突法 武裝沖突法 law of armed conflict / law of war 国际人权法 國際人權法 guó jì rén quán fǎ international human rights law / human rights law 联合国国际法视听图书馆 聯合國國際法視聽圖書館 United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law / Audiovisual Library in International Law 联合国贸易法委员会跨国界破产示范法 聯合國貿易法委員會跨國界破產示範法 Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law 海洋法技术问题咨询委员会 海洋法技術問題咨詢委員會 Advisory Board on Technical Aspects of the Law of the Sea / Advisory Board on Hydrographic, Geodetic and Marine Geo-Scientific Aspects of the Law of the Sea 纲要法律 綱要法律 skeleton law / outline law 日内瓦国际法讨论会 日內瓦國際法討論會 Geneva Seminar on International Law / International Law Seminar 马克斯·普朗克比较公法和国际法研究所 馬克斯·普朗克比較公法和國際法研究所 Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law 国际军事刑法和战争法学会 國際軍事刑法和戰爭法學會 International Society of Penal Military Law and Law of War 法治国家联盟 法治國家聯盟 State of Law Coalition / State of Law 国际公法工作小组 國際公法工作小組 Public International Law Working Group / Council Working Group on Public International Law; 巴勒斯坦临时自治政权基本法 巴勒斯坦臨時自治政權基本法 Basic Law for the Palestinian Interim Self-Government Authority / Palestinian Basic Law 关于解决本国法和住所地法冲突的公约 關於解決本國法和住所地法沖突的公約 Convention relating to the settlement of the conflicts between the law of nationality and the law of domicile 美国律师公会中欧和东欧法律倡议 美國律師公會中歐和東歐法律倡議 American Bar Association Central and Eastern European Law Initiative / Central and Eastern European Law Initiative 媳妇熬成婆 媳婦熬成婆 xí fù áo chéng pó lit. even a submissive daughter-in-law will one day become a domineering mother-in-law (idiom) / fig. the oppressed will become the oppressor / what goes around comes around 改口费 改口費 gǎi kǒu fèi a gift of money given by parents on both sides after a wedding, to their new daughter-in-law or son-in-law 翁婿 wēng xù father-in-law (wife's father) and son-in-law 丑媳妇早晚也得见公婆 醜媳婦早晚也得見公婆 chǒu xí fù zǎo wǎn yě děi jiàn gōng pó lit. the ugly daughter-in-law must sooner or later meet her parents-in-law (idiom) / fig. it's not something you can avoid forever 法政 fǎ zhèng law and government / law and politics syn 突破 tū pò to break through / to make a breakthrough / to surmount (an obstacle) / (sports) to break through the opponent's defense 防御 防禦 fáng yù defense / to defend syn 国防 國防 guó fáng national defense 武术 武術 wǔ shù military skill or technique (in former times) / all kinds of martial art sports (some claiming spiritual development) / self-defense / tradition of choreographed fights from opera and film (recent usage) / also called kungfu 功夫 / CL:種|种[zhong3] syn 防卫 防衛 fáng wèi to defend / defensive / defense syn 防空 fáng kōng anti-aircraft defense 辩护 辯護 biàn hù to speak in defense of / to argue in favor of / to defend / to plead syn 边防 邊防 biān fáng frontier defense syn 自卫 自衛 zì wèi to defend oneself / self-defense 攻防 gōng fáng attack and defense / the midfield (in soccer) 自卫队 自衛隊 zì wèi duì self-defense force / the Japanese armed forces syn 自保 zì bǎo to defend oneself / self-defense / self-preservation 防务 防務 fáng wù (pertaining to) defense 布防 bù fáng to lay out a defense syn 海防 hǎi fáng coastal defense 抗灾 抗災 kàng zāi defense against natural disasters 禁卫 禁衛 jìn wèi defense of the imperial palace or of the capital / the palace guard (or a member of that unit) 城防 chéng fáng city defense 防长 防長 fáng zhǎng abbr. for 國防部長|国防部长[guo2 fang2 bu4 zhang3], Minister of Defense 四个现代化 四個現代化 sì gè xiàn dài huà Deng Xiaoping's four modernizations practiced from the 1980s (possibly planned together with Zhou Enlai), namely: modernization of industry, agriculture, national defense and science and technology / abbr. to 四化 四个现代化 四個現代化 sì ge xiàn dài huà Deng Xiaoping's four modernizations practiced from the 1980s (possibly planned together with Zhou Enlai), namely: modernization of industry, agriculture, national defense and science and technology / abbr. to 四化[si4 hua4] 分洪 fēn hóng to separate flood / flood defense 守敌 守敵 shǒu dí enemy defense / enemy garrison 空防 kōng fáng air force / air defense 迟浩田 遲浩田 chí hào tián Chi Haotian (1929-), Chinese Minister of National Defense 1993-2003 国防现代化 國防現代化 guó fáng xiàn dài huà modernization of national defense, one of Deng Xiaoping's Four Modernizations 檑 léi logs rolled down in defense of city 铜墙铁壁 銅牆鐵壁 tóng qiáng tiě bì copper wall, iron bastion (idiom) / impenetrable defense syn 闭门塞窦 閉門塞竇 bì mén sè dòu to close doors and block openings (idiom) / mounting a strict defense 高城深池 gāo chéng shēn chí high walls and deep moat (idiom) / impenetrable defense 反生物战 反生物戰 fǎn shēng wù zhàn biological (warfare) defense 放射防护 放射防護 fàng shè fáng hù radiological defense 国防科技工业委员会 國防科技工業委員會 guó fáng kē jì gōng yè wěi yuán huì State Commission on Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (COSTIND) 国防利益 國防利益 guó fáng lì yì (national) defense interests 国防预算 國防預算 guó fáng yù suàn defense budget 核防御 hé fáng yù nuclear defense 化学武器防护 化學武器防護 huà xué wǔ qì fáng hù chemical weapon defense 拉姆斯菲尔德 拉姆斯菲爾德 lā mǔ sī fēi ěr dé Donald Rumsfeld (1932-), former US Secretary of Defense 战略防御倡议 戰略防御倡議 zhàn lüè fáng yù chàng yì strategic defense initiative (SDI) 