legalism

基本解釋

You get the idea in Christianity traditionally that Jesus rejected the Law because that's legalism.
基督教的傳統(tǒng)觀點是,耶穌摒棄律法，因為那是守法主義的。
I think we have a similar development now, where there won't be this very harsh kind of authoritarian way of governing, which owes much more to Legalism than to Confucianism.
我認為我們現在處于類似的發(fā)展狀況，不需要用那種類似法家思想的非常嚴酷的集權統(tǒng)治方式，而改取儒家思想。
For “presiding over the Sodom of our age”, the Brits win the prize for high cant: “Really there was no language like English for turning lies into legalism.
因為“主持當代的索多瑪”，英國贏得了“高度虛偽”的大獎，“沒有任何語言能像英語一樣把謊言講得那么高尚守法。”

The priests were able to construct a new identity and religion that stressed the sinfulness of the people, and the need for ritual purity and ritual observance and legalism as the road back to God.
這些牧師能夠建造新的身份和宗教,強調人們的原罪，宗教圣潔和遵從律法的必要性,強調守法主義是重返上帝的必經之路。
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strict adherence to the law, esp the stressing of the letter of the law rather than its spirit

法家
As a great master, Han Fei assimilated Taoism from Lao Zi, took it to be the root of his Legalism.
作為一位思想之集大成者,韓非法家學說吸收改造了老子之道的理論,并用此作為其法治理論的根基。
宗教學
靠善行得救說；信奉律法；信奉摩西律法