法政 fá zhèng law and government / law and politics syn 法政 fǎ zhèng law and government / law and politics syn 参政 參政 cān zhèng to be involved in politics / participation in politics 权术 權術 quán shù art of politics / political tricks (often derog.) / power play / to play at politics / underhand trickery 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 政经 政經 zhèng jīng politics and the economy (from 政治[zheng4 zhi4] and 經濟|经济[jing1 ji4]) / political and economic 清高 qīng gāo noble and virtuous / aloof from politics and material pursuits syn 三十六计 三十六計 sān shí liù jì The Thirty-Six Stratagems, a Chinese essay used to illustrate a series of stratagems used in politics, war, and in civil interaction / all the possible schemes and stratagems 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 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 粉墨登场 粉墨登場 fěn mò dēng chǎng to make up and go on stage (idiom) / to embark on a career (esp. in politics or crime) syn 权位 權位 quán wèi power and position (politics) syn 四清运动 四清運動 sì qīng yùn dòng the Four Cleanups Movement (1963-66), which aimed to cleanse the politics, economy, organization and ideology of the Communist Party 全球就业的政治与经济问题会议 全球就業的政治與經濟問題會議 Conference on the Politics and Economics of Global Employment 国家发展、认同政治和女权运动概念会议 國家發展、認同政治和女權運動概念會議 Conference on National Development, Identity Politics and Concepts of Feminism 政治、防务和安全机关 政治、防務和安全機關 Organ on Politics, Defence and Security 国际移民政治研究所 國際移民政治研究所 International Research Institute for Immigration and Emigration Politics 婆媳 pó xí mother-in-law and daughter-in-law 扒灰 pá huī incest between father-in-law and daughter-in-law 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 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 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 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 翁婿 wēng xù father-in-law (wife's father) and son-in-law 政治 zhèng zhì politics / political syn 前台 前臺 qián tái stage / proscenium / foreground in politics etc (sometimes derog.) / front desk / reception desk / (computing) front-end / foreground 上台 shàng tái to rise to power (in politics) / to go on stage (in the theater) syn 跌倒 diē dǎo to tumble / to fall / fig. to suffer a reverse (in politics or business) syn 小将 小將 xiǎo jiàng (in classical literature) young military officer of high rank for his age / (during the Cultural Revolution) young militant in the Red Guard / (in modern usage) rising star (in sport, politics etc) syn 强人 強人 qiáng rén (politics) strongman / (in the workplace, esp. of a woman) a highly capable person / (old) robber syn 淡出 dàn chū to fade out (cinema) / to withdraw from (politics, acting etc) / to fade from (memory) syn 国事 國事 guó shì affairs of the nation / politics syn 时政 時政 shí zhèng current politics / political situation of the time syn 从政 從政 cóng zhèng to be engaged in politics (esp. as a government official) syn 政治学 政治學 zhèng zhì xué politics / political science 政事 zhèng shì politics / government affairs syn 地缘 地緣 dì yuán geographic situation / geo-(politics etc) 隐退 隱退 yǐn tuì to retire (from society, esp. from politics) / to vanish syn 议政 議政 yì zhèng to discuss politics 政 zhèng political / politics / government syn 左 zuǒ left / the Left (politics) / east / unorthodox / queer / wrong / differing / opposite / variant of 佐[zuo3] syn 右 yòu (bound form) right / right-hand side / (bound form) (politics) right of center / (bound form) (old) west / (literary) the right side as the side of precedence syn 阁 閣 gé pavilion (usu. two-storied) / cabinet (politics) / boudoir / woman's chamber / rack / shelf syn 牝鸡司晨 牝雞司晨 pìn jī sī chén female chicken crows at daybreak (idiom) / a woman usurps authority / women meddle in politics / The female wears the trousers. 牝鸡牡鸣 牝雞牡鳴 pìn jī mǔ míng female chicken crows at daybreak (idiom) / a woman usurps authority / women meddle in politics / The female wears the trousers. 下议院议员 下議院議員 xià yì yuàn yì yuán Member of Parliament (MP) (UK Politics) 中间路线 中間路線 zhōng jiān lù xiàn middle road (in politics) 乱政 亂政 luàn zhèng to corrupt politics 可操作的艺术 可操作的藝術 kě cāo zuò de yì shù the art of the possible (Bismarck on politics) 国政 國政 guó zhèng national politics / archaic rank, "Minister of State" / common given name syn 政理 zhèng lǐ politics / government affairs 本土派 běn tǔ pài local faction / pro-localization faction (in Taiwanese politics) 极右翼 極右翼 jí yòu yì extreme right (politics) 民主派 mín zhǔ pài (Hong Kong politics) the pro-democracy camp (founded 1987), aka the pan-democrats 玩手腕 wán shǒu wàn to play tricks / to play at politics 先军政治 先軍政治 xiān jūn zhèng zhì Songun Jongchi / military first politics 亚太妇女参与政治中心 亞太婦女參與政治中心 Centre for Asia / Pacific Women in Politics 认同政治 認同政治 identity politics 国际从政妇女知识网络 國際從政婦女知識網絡 International Knowledge Network of Women in Politics 摇摆州 搖擺州 yáo bǎi zhōu swing state (US politics) 党鞭 黨鞭 dǎng biān (politics) whip 键政 鍵政 jiàn zhèng (slang) to discuss politics online 干政 gān zhèng to interfere in state affairs / to meddle in politics 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 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 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) 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 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 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 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 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 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 