One platform declared that the people of a territory had the right to decide if slavery would be legal or illegal.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

I give them legal advice and legal representation, and go to court with them and all sorts of things.

我会给他们一些法律方面的建议，做他们的法定代理人，陪同他们去法院诉讼等等。

我帮助过的人们 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

This is the world, particularly the legal world, catching up with where religious and cultural concepts have been for a very long time.

这就是这个世界，尤其是法律世界，向宗教和文化概念靠拢的地方,而后两者已存在很长时间了。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

In a decision in eighteen seventy-six, the Supreme Court said states had a legal right to control costs of railroad transportation.

VOA: special.2010.04.15

So the legal situation was set up to try to keep the wife's ownership as part of a different family, and so her money didn't go to her husband, and his money didn't go to her.

所以立法的本意是,保持妻子所有权于另一个家庭，这样她的钱就不会流到丈夫手中，丈夫的钱也不会流到她手中。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

The women needed to meet additional legal requirements because they were seeking payment for harm they say was done.

VOA: special.2011.06.24

Their newly uncovered languages had been long forgotten; their rich literary and legal texts were now indecipherable.

最近发现的语言是很早就已经被人忘记的;,丰富文学法律条文也难以辨认。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

At the same time, a court case has raised questions about the agency's legal powers to regulate broadband service.

VOA: special.2010.03.19

But there's a catch, the catch is, that that means you have to sign that legal release form.

但是这会有个条件,你们都要签署授权书

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

had no legal basis for an effort to keep Comcast from limiting access to some services over its network.

VOA: special.2010.05.21

It's perfectly legal in Python to type that in and get the value back out.

正如我所说的,我更希望用一个,我刚刚写的访问器。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

And in societies where there is less trust between people, the quality of the legal system plays a larger part.

VOA: special.2009.12.19

We have to realize that people don't read all the fine print and don't understand -if you have a precisely written contract in legal language, maybe they don't get it.

大众不愿阅读也无法理解,那些晦涩的法律条文,一份由法律术语写成的合同,对大众来讲无异于一部天书

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The new proposal calls for rules barring service providers from preventing users from sending and receiving legal information of any kind.

VOA: special.2010.08.20

Hobbes, in other words, tried to render acceptable, tried to render palatable, what Machiavelli had done by providing a more precise and more legal and institutional framework for the modern state.

霍布斯，换句话说，试图去变得易于接受，试图去变得更加愉快，马基雅维利的做法是,给现代国家提供一个,更加精确，更加法定的机构性框架。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

In the United States, the legal age to drink alcohol is twenty-one -- one of the highest in the world.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

There's no legal tradition, so there's no law school.

俄国没有法律传统,也就没有法学院

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

He says projects designed to increase interpersonal trust can have a major effect in poor countries with undependable legal systems.

VOA: special.2009.12.19

Martha Nussbaum The philosopher and legal scholar Martha Nussbaum nicely summarizes this: "Thus, throughout history certain disgust properties have repeatedly and monotonously been associated with Jews, women, homosexuals, untouchables, lower class people.

哲学家和法律学者,很好地总结了这一点：,”因此，历史上某些令人反感的属性,便一次又一次地被套在,犹太人，女人，同性恋者，贱民，低阶层者的身上。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The use of scientific knowledge in legal cases is called forensics, from the Latin term for a public forum.

VOA: special.2009.10.03

and in some cases, even an explicit right to death is also something that is spelled out in many legal codes.

在有些情形下，许多法律法规中也明确记录了要求死亡的权力。

对于安乐死的看法 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But with threats, a language barrier and fear of the legal system, victims are often unwilling or unable to seek help.

VOA: special.2010.06.14

And if you could just meet up with the teaching fellows for our little -- our legal department, that would be great.

如果你们可以和研究生助教碰面,在我们的小法律部，那将是非常好的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Habeas corpus is a legal term for the right to have a judge decide if a person is being detained lawfully.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

You'll notice too from the syllabus that we don't only read these books; we also take up contemporary, political, and legal controversies that raise philosophical questions.

在教学大纲中还能看到,我们不仅要读这些著作;,还会探讨当代政治及法律争议,所引发的诸多哲学问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Users must also be able to connect their choice of devices that are legal and do not harm the network.

VOA: special.2009.09.25

so that hopefully I could switch myself from the legal side of things to the business side of things.

所以如我所愿，我从法律行业跳到了商业领域。

选康内尔大学的理由 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The reports she wrote led to legal cases that continued all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

but that still is... is kind of related to the, to legal fields or to the law.

但内容仍然和法律相关。

在哪都可以实习 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

That's a horrible thing to say, that the author has no legal status."

作者如果没有法律地位是很恐怖的“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选