They actually can be used in a court of law as a stage toward arriving at a verdict.

这些词在法庭上,指审判前的一个程序。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

You don't have to try to get the change of law You don't have to get the supreme court to change its mind. All you have to do is to get out your credit card and go online and it's done.

不必试图修改法律,也不必游说最高法院,做出什么改变，你需要做的,只是掏出你的信用卡，登陆网站，然后一切搞定。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

There is for Hobbes, as for Thrasymachus, no higher court of appeal than the will or the word of the sovereign, no transcendent law, no divine law, no source of authority outside sovereign command.

对霍布斯和特拉西马库斯而言，根本不存在能高过君主意愿,和言辞的上诉法院，更没有什么卓绝或是神圣的法律,以及其他权力是可以高于君主的命令的。

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A lot of your works have been in the law, in cultural policy, in the supreme court.

您的许多工作都涉及法律，文化政策和最高法院。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选