lawlessness

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n.  违法，不法，非法，无法无天；不受法律制约

BNC.21684 / COCA.19256

柯林斯词典

• ADJ （尤指疯狂暴力的行为）违法的，非法的，不法的
  Lawlessactions break the law, especially in a wild and violent way.
  1. The government recognised there were problems in urban areas but these could never be an excuse for lawless behaviour.
     政府承认市区存在问题，但决不可拿这些作为不法行为的借口。
• ADJ-GRADED （某一地方或时期）目无法纪的，法网不及的
  Alawlessplace or time is one where people do not respect the law.
  1. ...lawless inner-city streets plagued by muggings, thefts, assaults and even murder.
     不断有抢劫、盗窃、伤人乃至谋杀案件发生的无法无天的市中心区街道
  2. ...people struggling to restore moral values in an increasingly lawless and godless age.
     在一个越来越罔顾法纪、缺失信仰的时代力图重树道德观的人们

英英释义

noun

• illegality as a consequence of unlawful acts
  Synonym:outlawry
• a state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government)
  Synonym:anarchy

双语例句

• Once you cross over the thin line to acts of lawlessness, who knows where it stops?
  一旦你越过雷池开始干违法的事，谁知道哪里是个头呢？
• So you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
  28你们也是如此，外面向人显出公义，里面却满了伪善和不法。
• True, but a lot of others are trapped in persistent, pervasive lawlessness.
  事实的确如此，不过其他许多国家却正陷于持久而普遍的无法无天状态。
• In the absence of that, it is not possible to find a lasting power upon injustice and lawlessness.
  缺少这些，不公正和无法治的权力不可能持久。
• But lawyers and victims say lawlessness in the countryside means many rapists go unpunished.
  但律师和受害者说，农村地区的法律约束力不够意味着很多强奸犯仍逍遥法外。
• Where the European sees immorality and lawlessness, strict law rules in reality.
  在欧洲人视为不道德和无规则的地方，事实上都盛行着一种严格的规则。
• Already a route for human trafficking and weapons and drugs smuggling, the Sinai Peninsula has sunk deeper into lawlessness since the revolution in Egypt last year that ousted Hosni Mubarak, the former president.
  西奈半岛本来就是贩卖人口、走私武器和毒品的一条通道，自去年埃及爆发革命、推翻前总统胡斯尼穆巴拉克（hosnimubarak）以来，更是进一步陷入无法无天的状态。
• This drastic remedy for lawlessness and disorder.
  这种对付违法及骚乱的严厉措施。
• And sin is lawlessness.
  凡犯罪的，就是违背律法，违背律法就是罪。
• He was looked down upon by his contemporaries. a novel that is a comment on contemporary lawlessness.
  他被他的同时代的人瞧不起。一本对同时代的人作评论的小说。