A legislative body is a group of persons who make law .

立法队伍就是一群制订法律的人.

属类：英汉句库--

make law , follow the law, uphold the law, and hold violators accountable

有法可依,有法必依, 执法必严,违法必究

属类：综合句库--

1: Arizona’s bill, passed in 2010, seeks to discourage illegal immigration by making it a crime under state as well as federal law and by instructing state authorities to be on the lookout for illegal immigrants. 2: Civil-liberties groups worry that this will lead to harassment of anyone with brown skin, even though the law expressly prohibits such “profiling”. 3: There is no easy way for the authorities to judge an individual’s immigration status, argue opponents, so many citizens will be subjected to unwarranted checks.

1:亚利桑那州这一法案于2010年通过,旨在让州法律和联邦法律把非法移民认定为犯罪行为,并引导州政府密切搜寻非法移民者,以此来打击非法移民活动。2:公民自由组织担忧这将给那些古铜色肤色的人带来困扰,尽管法案中明令禁止"按肤色下定论"。3:反对者称,官方鉴定个人的移民身份从来就不是一件容易的事,所以许多美国公民被迫接受未经批准的检。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-移民政治学(1)

1: That prospect seemed to concern several justices during the oral arguments on the law before the Supreme Court. 2: Stephen Breyer, for example, fretted about the possible fate under the law of a jogger carrying only a driver’s licence from New Mexico, a state that borders Arizona and used to issue licences to illegal immigrants. 3: But the solicitor-general said he was not challenging the law on the grounds that it would discriminate against Latinos. 4: Instead he argued that the law pre-empts the federal government’s power to set immigration policy. 5: Its defenders retort that it aims only to help the federal government fulfil its obligations on immigration, and that only an administration that was deliberately neglecting them could find fault with it.

1:这件事的可能性,令几位法官对庭上的案子有所忧虑,他们有过几番辩论。2:比如,根据这项法律,史蒂芬·拜耳就担心某位从新墨西哥州过来,身上只带驾照的慢跑者的命运,因为新墨西哥州毗邻亚利桑那州,而且曾经给非法移民发放过驾照。3:但是副检察长则说道,他反对这项法律并不是基于该法律会歧视拉美裔美国人这一点。4:相对的他说这项法律夺取了联邦政府制定移民政策的权力。5:它的辩护者们则反驳,这项法律只是为了帮助联邦政府履行制定移民政策的义务,并且只有故意忽视他们的政府才会发现这项法律有问题.

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-移民政治学(1)

1: Then the iron law of infrastructure projects asserted itself. 2: According to current estimates, the train would in fact cost three times as much or more, and take 13 years longer to build. 3: Mr Obama still wants to help; he has asked Congress for $35 billion in railway funding over five years, of which $3.5 billion may go to California. 4: But even with the bond funds, those dollops would cover less than 13% of the estimated cost. Republicans are in no mood to allocate more.

1:之后基建工程的魔咒又开始应验。2:根据目前的估计，这项工程实际支出费用将是预想的三倍或更多，并需耗时长达13年之久。3:奥巴马对此仍不放弃并给予一定援助;在过去的五年里他已向国会申请了350亿美元用于铁路建设，其中大约35亿美元用于加州。4:但即便如此，所有这些费用仍不足预计支出的13%。对此共和党人再无心援助更多。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-无处高速 Going Nowhere Fast

1: IT MAY have taken the Supreme Court just an hour to wrap up its discussion of illegal immigration this week, but America’s politicians, it seems, cannot get enough of the subject. 2: It will be several months before the court rules on the case in question, which concerns a state law in Arizona, but Democratic leaders in the Senate are already planning a vote to overturn its decision if the law is upheld. 3: That vote would presumably fail, thanks to Republican opposition, but it would allow the Democrats to keep the subject in the news. 4: Democrats are also attacking Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, for supporting the law. 5: Mr Romney, meanwhile, has dismissed the whole fuss as an effort to distract Hispanic voters from Mr Obama’s failings as steward of the economy. 6: The outcome of the presidential race, both sides acknowledge, could conceivably hinge on whether it is the state of the economy or laws like Arizona’s that stir more indignation among Hispanics.

1:最高法院本周对于非法移民的讨论也许只持续了一个小时，但是美国的政客们看上去从未停止在非法移民这个问题上大做文章。2:最高法院裁决这个涉及到亚利桑那州州法律的案子还将花上几个月,但是参议院中民主党的领袖已经在计划,一旦最高法院判亚利桑那州州法律有效,就发动一场投票来推翻这一决议。3:由于参议院中共和党的反对,这一投票多半会失败,但民主党却能把这一话题保留在公众视野中。4:民主党也批评米特·罗姆尼,因为这位预定的共和党总统竞选人支持这一法律。5:同时,罗姆尼认为这整场闹剧只不过是民主党人想借此来分散西班牙裔选民的注意力,让他们忽视奥巴马总统作为经济守门人的失职。6:民主共和两党都承认,经济状态和激起西班牙裔美国人愤慨的亚利桑那州法律,都可能影响总统大选的结果.

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-移民政治学(1)

Since both political parties have an interest, both will press on. Rick Perry, the Republican governor of Texas, condemned the decision as an example of federal meddling. The law, he said, “requires nothing more extensive than the type of photo identification necessary to receive a library card or board an airplane”.

因为双方政党都有利益取向，两边都将坚持。德克萨斯的州长Rick Perry责难的认为这个决定又是联邦越界干预的一个例子。他说原法案只限定要求了获取图书卡或是机票所必需的认证照片的类型而已，并没有更宽地限制什么。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-选民身份认定——不再继续

Notice priority model is the better on the whole sight, comparatively therefore, China should make law according to this model.

比较而言，通知优先主义更优，我国应依此种模式立法。

属类：中国大陆-www.ceps.com.tw-

But it is easy to launch an initiative, which circumvents the legislature by letting citizens make law .

但是却很容易发起一个创议，通过让公民立法而绕开立法机构。

属类：英汉句库-www.ecocn.org-

In order to perfect the bargain system, we should draw lessons from foreign countries in their ways and make law to rule them.

完善中国式诉辩交易制度，应当在借鉴国外合理做法的基础上，通过立法进行必要的规制。

属类：中国大陆-www.ceps.com.tw-

It is more appropriate to make local regulations when local governments make law in order to apply the Emergency Response Law.

为实施《突发事件应时法》而进行的地方立法，以制定地方性法规较为适宜。

属类：中国大陆-www.ceps.com.tw-