by law

基本解釋

These problems cannot be solved by laws alone.
這些問題只通過法律是不能解決的。
The EU may be a multinational body bound together by laws and treaties.
歐盟可能是個由法律和條約聯(lián)結(jié)起來的跨國組織。
Clinics had feared men would be put off by laws brought in six years ago that allowed children of donors to trace their biological fathers.
六年前出臺的一項法律允許捐贈者的孩子追溯他們的生父，一些診所擔憂捐贈者可能會遭到阻撓。

Is there any question that, by the laws of war, property -- both of enemies and friends may be taken when needed.
This was, again, the thesis of the classical republicans according to which we are only fully human, or we only become fully human, when we are engaged in political life, in ruling ourselves by laws of our own making.
這再一次印證了典型共和派的的宗旨,根據(jù)于我們是完全的人，我們要變成完全的人，當我們被牽扯到政治生活中，我們用我們自己制造的法律來統(tǒng)治自己。
耶魯公開課 - 政治哲學導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選
The dietary laws are presented by the priests not as a sensible way to avoid various diseases that are caused by the lack of refrigeration in the desert.
飲食教規(guī)并不是被祭司們,并不是作為一個規(guī)避疾病的方法出現(xiàn)的,這些疾病是由于沙漠地區(qū)缺水造成的。
耶魯公開課 - 舊約導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選

Washington operates by customs and behavioral norms as much as it does by laws and parliamentary rules.
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