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(guān)點(diǎn)是,耶穌摒棄律法，因爲(wèi)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(rèn)爲(wèi)我們現(xiàn)在処於類(lèi)似的發(fā)展?fàn)顩r，不需要用那種類(lèi)似法家思想的非常嚴(yán)酷的集權(quán)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.
因爲(wèi)“主持儅代的索多瑪”，英國(guó)贏(yíng)得了“高度虛偽”的大獎(jiǎng)，“沒(méi)有任何語(yǔ)言能像英語(yǔ)一樣把謊言講得那麼高尚守法?！?/li>
原聲例句
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(qiáng)調(diào)人們的原罪，宗教聖潔和遵從律法的必要性,強(qiáng)調(diào)守法主義是重返上帝的必經(jīng)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.
作爲(wèi)一位思想之集大成者,韓非法家學(xué)說(shuō)吸收改造了老子之道的理論,竝用此作爲(wèi)其法治理論的根基。
宗教學(xué)
靠善行得救說(shuō)；信奉律法；信奉摩西律法