You shouldn't lay down the law to me about that.

你不应该就那件事来申斥我。

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Can't you talk to the kids? Don't always lay down the law to them.

你不能和孩子们好好讲吗？别总是发号施令。

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He is raring to charge into the fray and lay down the law.

他急切地想管管这场争斗，斥责他们一番。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

"What will happen is that President Clinton will lay down the law to Chairman Arafat that there should be no violence in response to this project, " said Alan Makovsky of the Washington Institute Near East Policy.

CNN: Arafat arrives in Washington

The IMF has been criticised in the past as being a group of developed countries trying to lay down the law to struggling countries, which is why the decision to give growing nations more votes is important.

BBC: Obama hails 'tough regulations'

The Franco-German partnership, the Union's motor for most of the past 45 years, has become less mighty, partly because it is harder for two countries, even two big ones, to lay down the law to 13 others than to seven, in the mid-1970s, or to their original four partners.

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne