The law of the jungle

Definition

law / lↄ: / n ၁။ (က) (also the law ) [U] ဥပေဒ။ observe/obey the law ❍ be within/ outside the law ❍ law-enforcement agencies ❍ Stealing is against the law. ❍ I didn't know I was breaking the law (ie doing sth illegal). ❍ She acts as if she's above the law (ie as if the law does not apply to her). ❍ The law is on our side (ie We are right according to the law). See also CANON LAW, CIVIL LAW, COMMON LAW, MARTIAL LAW, STATUTE LAW (ခ) [C] ျပ႒ာန္းထားေသာ ဥပေဒတစ္ရပ္ရပ္။ The new law comes into force next month. (ဂ) [U] ဥပေဒ မ်ဳိးကြဲမ်ား။ international / company / criminal law ❍ the divorce/ immigration / blasphemy laws. (ဃ) [U] ဥပေဒပညာ။ ေရွ႕ေန၊ အက်ဳိးေဆာင္လုပ္ျခင္း။ practise law ❍ a law student / degree ❍ ( go to law school) He gave up law to become a writer. ၂။ [C] အႏုပညာ၊ အားကစားဆိုင္ရာ စည္းမ်ဥ္း စည္းကမ္း၊ လုပ္ထံုးလုပ္နည္း။ the laws of perspective / harmony ❍ the laws of tennis. ၃။ [C] နိယာမ။ ဥပေဒသ။ the law of gravity ❍ the laws of chemistry. ၄။ the law [sing] ( infml ) ရဲ။ ပုလိပ္။ Watch out — here comes the law! ❏ be a law unto oneself/itself [ IDM ] ထင္ရာစိုင္းသည္။ She never listens to her parents—she's a law unto herself. ❏ go to law (against sb) [ IDM ] တရားစြဲဆိုသည္။ ❏ have the law on sb [ IDM ] ( infml ) ရဲစခန္း တိုင္ၾကား သည္။ If you do that again I'll have the law on you. ❏ law-abiding adj ဥပေဒ ႐ိုေသလိုက္နာေသာ။ ဥပေဒေဘာင္ အတြင္း ေနထိုင္ေသာ။ law-abiding citizens. ❏ law and order [ IDM ] တရားဥပေဒ စိုးမိုးေရး။ a breakdown of law and order ❍ establish / maintain / restore law and order. ❏ lawful / -fl / adj ၁။ တရားဝင္ျဖစ္ေသာ။ ဥပေဒက ခြင့္ျပဳ ေသာ။ take power by lawful means. ၂။ တရားဝင္ျဖစ္ေသာ။ his lawful heir. ❏ lawfully / -fǝli / adv ဥပေဒႏွင့္ ေလ်ာ္ညီစြာ။ a lawfully elected government. ❏ lawless adj (က) ဥပေဒမဲ့။ lawless regions / streets. (ခ) ဥပေဒ မေလးစား၊ မလိုက္နာေသာ။ lawless youth. lawlessness n [U] ❏ Law Lord n (ၿဗိတိန္တြင္)အျမင့္ဆံုး အယူခံ႐ံုး၏ အဖြဲ႕ဝင္ ျဖစ္ေသာ ဥပေဒပါရဂူ အထက္လႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္။ ❏ the law of averages n [sing] ျဖစ္ရပ္တစ္ခုသည္ ျဖစ္တန္ရာေသာ ႀကိမ္ႏႈန္းအတိုင္း အကယ္ပင္ျဖစ္ႏိုင္ လာတတ္ သည္ဟူေသာ အယူအဆ။ ❏ the law of the jungle [ IDM ] ႀကီးႏိုင္ငယ္ညႇဥ္းသဘာဝ။ ႏိုင္ရာစားေလာက။ Power politics reflects the law of the jungle. ❏ lay down the law [ IDM ] အမိန္႔ခ်သည္။ He's always laying down the law about gardening but he really doesn't know much about it. ❏ take the law into one's own hands [ IDM ] ဥပေဒကိုမ်က္ကြယ္ျပဳ၍ လက္လြတ္စပယ္ စီရင္သည္။ ❏ there's no law against sth [ IDM ] ( infml ) တားျမစ္သည့္ ဥပေဒ မရိွပါ။ ဘာအျပစ္ လုပ္တာမွတ္လို႔။ I'll stay in bed as long as I like — there's no law against it.

Examples

1. The new law will be passed by Parliament in the spring.
2. [break a law] : Several traffic laws had been broken.
3. [law against] : A law against shoplifting
4. [law on] : A new law on gun ownership
5. [against the law] : It is against the law to park on a double yellow line.
6. [break the law] : The local authority is prepared to prosecute them for breaking the law.
7. [obey the law] : Local officials are reminding people to obey the law and not sell fireworks to children under sixteen.
8. [by/under law] : Any changes are required by law to be in writing.
9. [within the law] : They pledged to work within the law to bring about change.
10. [above the law] : Neither the government nor any official is above the law.
11. [become law] : The bill could become law as soon as next year.
12. [enforce the law] : It is the Attorney-General’s job to enforce the law
13. not the White House’s.
14. Criminal/company/constitutional law
15. The laws of morality
16. [practise law] : Anne’s been practising law for 20 years.
17. A law firm
18. Both of them are studying law at university.
19. A law school/degree
20. The laws of physics/gravity