大事 dà shì major event / major political event (war or change of regime) / major social event (wedding or funeral) / (do sth) in a big way / CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1] syn 严刑 嚴刑 yán xíng strict law / cruel punishment / to carry out cruel law rigorously syn 体罚 體罰 tǐ fá corporal punishment / to inflict physical punishment on (sb) 上刑 shàng xíng severe punishment / worst punishment / to torture syn 刑 xíng punishment / penalty / sentence / torture / corporal punishment syn 天诛 天誅 tiān zhū heavenly punishment / king's punishment 罚不当罪 罰不當罪 fá bù dāng zuì disproportionate punishment / the punishment is harsher than the crime 控诉和惩处欧洲轴心国主要战犯的协定 London Agreement Concerning Prosecution and Punishment of Major War Criminals of European Axis 主要成分 zhǔ yào chéng fèn major constituent / major component 主修 zhǔ xiū (education) to major in / major 天崩地裂 tiān bēng dì liè heaven falls and earth rends (idiom) / rocked by a major disaster / fig. violent revolution / major social upheaval syn 主要经济体能源和气候变化论坛 Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate / Major Economies Forum 主要装备的偿还率 major equipment reimbursement rate / major equipment rate 主要装备标准 主要裝備標準 major equipment standards / performance standards for major equipment / serviceability standards 主要装备的性能标准 主要裝備的性能標準 major equipment standards / performance standards for major equipment / serviceability standards 大规模区域冲突 大規模區域沖突 major regional conflict / major theatre war 大节 大節 dà jié major festival / important matter / major principle / high moral character syn 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 法律制裁 fǎ lǜ zhì cái legal sanction / prescribed punishment / punishable by law 出罪 chū zuì (law) to exempt from punishment 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 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 接受 jiē shòu to accept (a suggestion, punishment, bribe etc) / to acquiesce syn 受到 shòu dào to receive (praise, an education, punishment etc) / to be ...ed (praised, educated, punished etc) syn 惩罚 懲罰 chéng fá penalty / punishment / to punish syn 加重 jiā zhòng to make heavier / to emphasize / (of an illness etc) to become more serious / to aggravate (a bad situation) / to increase (a burden, punishment etc) syn 死刑 sǐ xíng death penalty / capital punishment syn 减免 減免 jiǎn miǎn to reduce or waive (taxes, punishment, rent, tuition etc) 制裁 zhì cái to punish / punishment / sanctions (incl. economic) syn 免受 miǎn shòu to avoid suffering / to prevent (sth bad) / to protect against (damage) / immunity (from prosecution) / freedom (from pain, damage etc) / exempt from punishment syn 刑罚 刑罰 xíng fá sentence / penalty / punishment syn 板子 bǎn zi board / plank / bamboo or birch for corporal punishment syn 赎罪 贖罪 shú zuì to atone for one's crime / to buy freedom from punishment / redemption / atonement 殊死 shū sǐ to behead / capital punishment / desperate struggle / life-and-death syn 赦免 shè miǎn to pardon / to absolve / to exempt from punishment syn 凌迟 凌遲 líng chí the lingering death / the death of a thousand cuts (old form of capital punishment) syn 灭族 滅族 miè zú extermination of an entire family (ancient Chinese punishment) syn 袒护 袒護 tǎn hù to shield (a miscreant) from punishment, criticism etc / to take sb's side syn 赏罚 賞罰 shǎng fá reward and punishment syn 腰斩 腰斬 yāo zhǎn to chop sb in half at the waist (capital punishment) / to cut sth in half / to reduce sth by a dramatic margin / to terminate / to cut short 刑具 xíng jù punishment equipment / torture instrument syn 畏罪 wèi zuì to dread punishment / afraid of being arrested for a crime syn 充军 充軍 chōng jūn to banish (to an army post, as a punishment) syn 皮开肉绽 皮開肉綻 pí kāi ròu zhàn flesh lacerated from corporal punishment (idiom) syn 甘之如饴 甘之如飴 gān zhī rú yí lit. as sweet as syrup (idiom, from Book of Songs) / to endure hardship gladly / a glutton for punishment syn 死有余辜 死有餘辜 sǐ yǒu yú gū (idiom) to be so evil that even death would be insufficient punishment syn 罪与罚 罪與罰 zuì yǔ fá Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky 陀思妥耶夫斯基[Tuo2 si1 tuo3 ye1 fu1 si1 ji1] 科 kē branch of study / administrative section / division / field / branch / stage directions / family (taxonomy) / rules / laws / to mete out (punishment) / to levy (taxes etc) / to fine sb / CL:個|个[ge4] 负荆请罪 負荊請罪 fù jīng qǐng zuì lit. to bring a bramble and ask for punishment (idiom) / fig. to offer sb a humble apology syn 宫刑 宮刑 gōng xíng castration (archaic punishment) 刑名 xíng míng xing-ming, a school of thought of the Warring States period associated with Shen Buhai 申不害[Shen1 Bu4hai4] / the designation for a punishment syn 电刑 電刑 diàn xíng to torture sb using electricity / electrocution (capital punishment) 五刑 wǔ xíng imperial five punishments of feudal China, up to Han times: tattooing characters on the forehead 墨[mo4], cutting off the nose 劓[yi4], amputation of one or both feet 刖[yue4], castration 宮|宫[gong1], execution 大辟[da4 pi4] / Han dynasty onwards: whipping 笞[chi1], beating the legs and buttocks with rough thorns 杖[zhang4], forced labor 徒[tu2], exile or banishment 流[liu2], capital punishment 死[si3] 肉刑 ròu xíng corporal punishment (such as castration or amputation) 车裂 車裂 chē liè to tear off sb's four limbs and head using five horse-drawn carts (historical form of capital punishment) syn 