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"law reform" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
法律改革 law reform
Chinese Pinyin Translation
单位 單位 dān wèi unit (of measure) / unit (group of people as a whole) / work unit (place of employment, esp. in the PRC prior to economic reform) / CL:個|个[ge4] syn
执法 執法 zhí fǎ to enforce a law / law enforcement
改造 gǎi zào to transform / to reform / to remodel / to remold syn
改革 gǎi gé reform / CL:次[ci4],種|种[zhong3],項|项[xiang4] / to reform 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
严刑 嚴刑 yán xíng strict law / cruel punishment / to carry out cruel law rigorously syn
改良 gǎi liáng to improve (sth) / to reform (a system) syn
再造 zài zào to give a new lease of life / to reconstruct / to reform / to rework / to recycle / to reproduce (copies, or offspring) / restoration / restructuring syn
起诉书 起訴書 qǐ sù shū indictment (law) / statement of charges (law) syn
感化 gǎn huà corrective influence / to reform (a criminal) / redemption (of a sinner) / to influence (a malefactor to a better life) / to guide sb back to the right path by repeated word and example syn
劳改 勞改 láo gǎi abbr. for 勞動改造|劳动改造[lao2 dong4 gai3 zao4] / reform through labor / laogai (prison camp) syn
亲家 親家 qìng jia parents of one's daughter-in-law or son-in-law / relatives by marriage syn
狂飙 狂飆 kuáng biāo hurricane / violent reform or revolution / violent movement or force syn
王法 wáng fǎ the law / the law of the land / the law of a state (in former times) / criterion syn
以身试法 以身試法 yǐ shēn shì fǎ to challenge the law (idiom) / to knowingly violate the law syn
护法 護法 hù fǎ to keep the law / to protect Buddha's teachings / protector of Buddhist law (i.e. temple donor)
法治 fǎ zhì rule of law / to rule by law syn
整改 zhěng gǎi to reform / to rectify and improve 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
天道 tiān dào natural law / heavenly law / weather (dialect) syn
公司法 gōng sī fǎ corporations law / company law / corporate law
维新 維新 wéi xīn (political) reform / revitalization / modernization syn
土地改革 tǔ dì gǎi gé land reform
习惯法 習慣法 xí guàn fǎ customary law / common law
变法 變法 biàn fǎ to change the laws / political reform / unconventional method syn
婆媳 pó xí mother-in-law and daughter-in-law
工读生 工讀生 gōng dú shēng student who also works part-time / (old) reform-school student
土改 tǔ gǎi land reform (abbr. for 土地改革[tu3di4 gai3ge2])
改革开放 改革開放 gǎi gé kāi fàng to reform and open to the outside world / refers to Deng Xiaoping's policies from around 1980
发改委 發改委 fā gǎi wěi abbr. for 國家發展和改革委員會|国家发展和改革委员会, PRC National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), formed in 2003
医改 醫改 yī gǎi reform of the medical system
梁启超 梁啟超 liáng qǐ chāo Liang Qichao (1873-1929), influential journalist and a leader of the failed reform movement of 1898
金融改革 jīn róng gǎi gé financial reform
康有为 康有為 kāng yǒu wéi Kang Youwei (1858-1927), Confucian intellectual, educator and would-be reformer, main leader of the failed reform movement of 1898
自新 zì xīn to reform oneself / to mend one's ways and start life anew
法政 fá zhèng law and government / law and politics syn
贫下中农 貧下中農 pín xià zhōng nóng (category defined by the Communist Party) poor and lower-middle peasants: farmers who, before land reform, possessed little or no land (poor peasants) and those who were barely able to support themselves with their own land (lower-middle peasants)
谭嗣同 譚嗣同 tán sì tóng Tan Sitong (1865-1898), Qing writer and politician, one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子 of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898
移风易俗 移風易俗 yí fēng yì sú (idiom) to reform habits and customs syn
改过自新 改過自新 gǎi guò zì xīn to reform and start afresh (idiom) / to turn over a new leaf syn
革 gé animal hide / leather / to reform / to remove / to expel (from office) syn
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
悛 quān to reform
国家计划委员会 國家計劃委員會 guó jiā jì huà wěi yuán huì PRC State Planning Committee, set up in 1952, replaced in 1998 by State Development and Planning Committee 國家發展計劃委員會|国家发展计划委员会[Guo2 jia1 Fa1 zhan3 Ji4 hua4 Wei3 yuan2 hui4] then in 2003 by National Development and Reform Commission 國家發展和改革委員會|国家发展和改革委员会[Guo2 jia1 Fa1 zhan3 he2 Gai3 ge2 Wei3 yuan2 hui4]
条 條 tiáo strip / item / article / clause (of law or treaty) / classifier for long thin things (ribbon, river, road, trousers etc) syn
法 灋 fǎ old variant of 法[fa3] / law syn
法律 fǎ lǜ law / CL:條|条[tiao2], 套[tao4], 個|个[ge4] syn
法庭 fǎ tíng court of law syn
准 準 zhǔn accurate / standard / definitely / certainly / about to become (bride, son-in-law etc) / quasi- / para- syn
亲 親 qìng parents-in-law of one's offspring syn
无辜 無辜 wú gū innocent / innocence / not guilty (law) syn
法院 fǎ yuàn court of law / court syn
违反 違反 wéi fǎn to violate (a law) syn
治安 zhì ān law and order / public security syn
判决 判決 pàn jué judgment (by a court of law) / to pass judgment on / to sentence syn
违法 違法 wéi fǎ illegal / to break the law syn
委托人 wěi tuō rén (law) client / trustor syn
公 gōng public / collectively owned / common / international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar) / make public / fair / just / Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4] / honorable (gentlemen) / father-in-law / male (animal) syn
裁判 cái pàn (law) to judge / to adjudicate / verdict / judgement / (sports) to referee / (sports) umpire / referee / judge syn
证物 證物 zhèng wù exhibit (law) syn
法案 fǎ àn bill / proposed law syn
宝藏 寶藏 bǎo zàng precious mineral deposits / hidden treasure / (fig.) treasure / (Buddhism) the treasure of Buddha's law syn
逍遥法外 逍遙法外 xiāo yáo fǎ wài unfettered and beyond the law (idiom) / evading retribution / getting away with it (e.g. crimes) / still at large
条款 條款 tiáo kuǎn clause (of contract or law) / CL:項|项[xiang4] syn
犯法 fàn fǎ to break the law syn
逃犯 táo fàn escaped criminal / fugitive from the law syn
法则 法則 fǎ zé law / rule / code syn
殴打 毆打 ōu dǎ to beat up / to come to blows / battery (law) syn
过失 過失 guò shī error / fault / (law) negligence / delinquency syn
规律 規律 guī lǜ rule (e.g. of science) / law of behavior / regular pattern / rhythm / discipline syn
法学院 法學院 fǎ xué yuàn law school
婆婆 pó po husband's mother / mother-in-law / grandma syn
管制 guǎn zhì to control / to restrict / (PRC law) non-custodial sentence with specified restrictions on one's activities for up to 3 years (e.g. not to participate in demonstrations) syn
庇护 庇護 bì hù to shelter / to protect / to provide refuge / (law) asylum syn
法定 fǎ dìng statutory / law-based / legal syn
女婿 nǚ xù daughter's husband / son-in-law syn
江湖 jiāng hú rivers and lakes / all corners of the country / remote areas to which hermits retreat / section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law / the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武俠|武侠[wu3xia2]) / (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc / demimonde / (in modern times) triads / secret gangster societies / underworld syn
岳父 yuè fù wife's father, father-in-law syn
绳之以法 繩之以法 shéng zhī yǐ fǎ to punish according to the law / to bring to justice syn
通缉犯 通緝犯 tōng jī fàn wanted criminal / fugitive (from the law)
守法 shǒu fǎ to abide by the law
岳母 yuè mǔ wife's mother, mother-in-law syn
嫂子 sǎo zi (coll.) older brother's wife / sister-in-law syn
依法 yī fǎ legal (proceedings) / according to law syn
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)
公公 gōng gong husband's father / father-in-law / grandpa / grandad / (old) form of address for a eunuch syn
禁酒 jìn jiǔ prohibition / ban on alcohol / dry law
无法无天 無法無天 wú fǎ wú tiān regardless of the law and of natural morality (idiom) / maverick / undisciplined and out of control syn
媳妇 媳婦 xí fù daughter-in-law / wife of a younger brother or relative of the younger generation syn
戒严 戒嚴 jiè yán to impose martial law / to impose emergency measures
送达 送達 sòng dá to deliver / to serve notice (law)
儿媳妇 兒媳婦 ér xí fu daughter-in-law syn
检察 檢察 jiǎn chá to inspect / (law) to prosecute / to investigate syn
法学 法學 fǎ xué law / legal studies
刑法 xíng fǎ criminal law syn
法网 法網 fǎ wǎng the net of justice / the long arm of the law syn
大嫂 dà sǎo older brother's wife / sister-in-law / elder sister (respectful appellation for an older married woman) syn
儿媳 兒媳 ér xí daughter-in-law syn
小姨子 xiǎo yí zi (coll.) wife's younger sister / sister-in-law (term not used to directly address her)
The four tones The four tones of Mandarin Pitch over time: tone 1 high and level (red), tone 2 rising (orange), tone 3 falling then rising (green), tone 4 falling (blue). tone 1 tone 2 tone 3 tone 4 Time Pitch

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