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) 控辩交易 控辯交易 kòng biàn jiāo yì plea bargaining / plea agreement 诉辩协让 sù biàn xié ràng plea agreement / plea bargain 提出抗辩 提出抗辯 tí chū kàng biàn to plead (not guilty) / to enter a plea 无罪抗辩 無罪抗辯 wú zuì kàng biàn plea of not guilty 控辩协议 控辯協議 kòng biàn xié yì plea bargain (law) 无辜 無辜 wú gū innocent / innocence / not guilty (law) syn 天网恢恢 天網恢恢 tiān wǎng huī huī lit. heaven's net has wide meshes, but nothing escapes it (idiom, from Laozi 73) / fig. the way of Heaven is fair, but the guilty will not escape / you can't run from the long arm of the law syn 天网恢恢,疏而不失 天網恢恢,疏而不失 tiān wǎng huī huī , shū ér bù shī lit. heaven's net has wide meshes, but nothing escapes it (idiom, from Laozi 73) / fig. the way of Heaven is fair, but the guilty will not escape / you can't run from the long arm of the law 天网恢恢,疏而不漏 天網恢恢,疏而不漏 tiān wǎng huī huī , shū ér bù lòu lit. heaven's net has wide meshes, but nothing escapes it (idiom, from Laozi 73) / fig. the way of Heaven is fair, but the guilty will not escape / you can't run from the long arm of the law 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 民事诉讼 民事訴訟 mín shì sù sòng common plea / civil appeal (as opposed to criminal case) 求情 qiú qíng to plea for leniency / to ask for a favor syn 诉状 訴狀 sù zhuàng indictment / plea / complaint syn 有求必应 有求必應 yǒu qiú bì yìng to grant whatever is asked for / to accede to every plea syn 陈词 陳詞 chén cí to state one's views / speech / statement / plea 辩诉协议 辯訴協議 biàn sù xié yì plea bargaining 认罪求情协议 認罪求情協議 rèn zuì qiú qíng xié yì plea bargaining 诉辩状 訴辯狀 plea 认罪协商 認罪協商 rèn zuì xié shāng plea bargain 无罪 無罪 wú zuì innocent / guileless / not guilty (of crime) 愧疚 kuì jiù to feel guilty / to feel ashamed of oneself / to be remorseful syn 内疚 內疚 nèi jiù guilty conscience / to feel a twinge of guilt syn 有罪 yǒu zuì guilty 心虚 心虛 xīn xū lacking in confidence / diffident / to have a guilty conscience syn 失职 失職 shī zhí to neglect one's duty / to be guilty of dereliction of duty syn 认罪 認罪 rèn zuì to admit guilt / to plead guilty syn 辩称 辯稱 biàn chēng to argue (that) / to allege / to dispute / to plead (e.g. not guilty) 罪大恶极 罪大惡極 zuì dà è jí guilty of terrible crimes (idiom) / reprehensible syn 做贼心虚 做賊心虛 zuò zéi xīn xū to feel guilty as a thief (idiom) / to have sth on one's conscience syn 连坐 連坐 lián zuò to treat as guilty those associated with an offender (family, neighbors etc) 获罪 獲罪 huò zuì to be deemed guilty / to be convicted 负疚 負疚 fù jiù (literary) to feel apologetic / to feel guilty syn 恶贯满盈 惡貫滿盈 è guàn mǎn yíng lit. strung through and filled with evil (idiom) / filled with extreme evil / replete with vice / guilty of monstrous crimes syn 服罪 fú zuì to admit to a crime / to plead guilty 问心有愧 問心有愧 wèn xīn yǒu kuì to have a guilty conscience syn 不知者不罪 bù zhī zhě bù zuì One who does not know is not guilty / If one does not know any better, one cannot be held responsible 疏而不漏 shū ér bù lòu loose, but allows no escape (idiom, from Laozi 老子[Lao3 zi3]) / the way of Heaven is fair, but the guilty will not escape 罪有应得 罪有應得 zuì yǒu yīng dé guilty and deserves to be punished (idiom) / entirely appropriate chastisement / the punishment fits the crime 不服罪 bù fú zuì to deny a crime / to plead not guilty 伏辯 fú biàn to admit one's guilt / to plead guilty / also written 服辯|服辯[fu2 bian4] 恶人先告状 惡人先告狀 è rén xiān gào zhuàng the guilty party files the suit / the thief cries thief 亏心 虧心 kuī xīn a guilty conscience syn 有罪的 guilty (adj) 有过失的 有過失的 guilty (adj) 有亏职守 有虧職守 yǒu kuī zhí shǒu (to be guilty of) dereliction of duty 心里有鬼 心裡有鬼 xīn li yǒu guǐ to have secret motives / to have a guilty conscience 反污 fǎn wū to accuse the victim (while being the guilty party) 供认不讳 供認不諱 gòng rèn bù huì to make a full confession / to plead guilty syn 各打五十大板 gè dǎ wǔ shí dà bǎn lit. to give each one a flogging of fifty strokes (idiom) / fig. to punish the guilty and the innocent alike / to put the blame on both parties 供认不讳 供認不諱 gòng rèn - bù huì to make a full confession / to plead guilty syn 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 法律 fǎ lǜ law / CL:條|条[tiao2], 套[tao4], 個|个[ge4] syn