Riot Act

基本解釋

1712 - The Riot Act takes effect in the Great Britain.
1712年的今天，《取締鬧事法》在大不列顛生效。
The obvious remedy is to lengthen their financing, and regulators have been reading the riot act to get them to do this.
一種顯而易見的補(bǔ)救方式就是延長(zhǎng)它們的融資期限，行業(yè)監(jiān)管者也正在通過吸取教訓(xùn)指導(dǎo)銀行這樣去做。
In a desperate act of self-preservation, I rolled over onto my elbows and knees, covered my head with my hands, and scurried away through the riot.
我拼命地掙扎著，依靠肘部和膝蓋殘存的力量翻過身來(lái)，雙手護(hù)著頭部，灰頭土臉的逃離了騷動(dòng)。

The last time the President met with him, he kind of read him the riot act.
WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing
Mr Zhu has read the riot act to inefficient state enterprises, where the number of laid-off workers is rising dramatically.
ECONOMIST: China
As B of A and other lenders were licking their wounds, the International Monetary Fund read these countries the Riot Act.
FORBES: Let Greece Implode

(formerly in England) a statute of 1715 by which persons committing a riot had to disperse within an hour of the reading of the act by a magistrate 17151