1. He may gently reprimand an official or even suggest to parliament that a law be altered.
    他可以善意地批评某位官员，也可以甚至向议会提议修改某项法律。

2. He had discovered a great law of human action without knowing it — namely, that in order to make a man or a boy desire a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.
    他不知不觉发现了人类行为的一个伟大的定律——那就是，若要使人追求一物，只要让它难以到手就行了。

3. However, the French delegates think it is the business of governments to make and impose law; the job of a business community like the ICC is to say what is right and wrong, but not to impose anything.
    而法国代表认为制定和实施法律是政府的事；像国际商会这样的商业团体该做的是表明孰对孰错，而非强制实行什么。

4. And mechanical systems like a wound watch, or the sun, do in fact run out of energy in accordance with the second law of thermodynamics (whether the whole universe does so is a moot point at present).
    像上紧发条的手表那样的机械装置，或太阳，也都会消耗完其能量（整个宇宙否如此，目前沿有争论）。

5. At San Fernando, Humboldt´s party was joined by a Spaniard, Don Nicolas Sotto, brother-in-law of the provincial governor.
    在圣费尔南多，洪堡的队伍里又加入了一位名叫唐·尼西拉·索托的西班牙人，他是省长的妹夫。

6. Any mother would be proud to have him for a son-in-law.
    任何一个母亲都会因为有这样一个女婿而感到脸上有光的。

7. "It's because divorce has such great economic consequences, and successive marriages have become so common," said a family law lawyer.
    "这是因为离婚会带来巨大的经济后果，而再婚又如此常见，"一位家庭法律师说。

8. A lawyer in a London law firm that often handles divorces for British-American couples noted that in Britain, prenuptial agreements were "just about ignored" by the courts because English law says that circumstances of a marriage aren't sta
    伦敦一家法律公司的一名律师经常为分处英美两国的夫妇处理离婚事宜。他注意到，在英国，法院"几乎忽视"婚前协议，因为英国的法律认为婚姻状况不是静态的，因此应由法官来决定资产怎样分配。

9. As one writer points out, "your video renting habits are better protected by law than your medical records."
    正如一位作者所指出的那样，"你租借录像带的习惯都能比你的医疗记录得到更好的法律保护。"

10. She graduated from Cambridge with a degree in law.
    她毕业於剑桥大学, 获法学学士学位.