Actually he gained power in Rome mainly by military might, by kind of making the Senate nervous and winning a few battles, and that was against the law.

事实上他在罗马提升势力，是由于强大军事实力，而且赢了几场硬仗战争，让元老院感到不安，这是违反法律的。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

The Corinthians are free; they will be violating no law or sacred bond if they say, sorry we really don't feel like doing that.

科林斯人可以自由选择,帮还是不帮,如果他们说对不起,我们不想帮忙,他们没有违反任何法律或某种神圣约束

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The breaking of even a single law calls into question the authority of law as such.

只要违反一条法律,即足够让法律的权威产生质疑。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Milton clearly wants us to know that this Nativity Ode was written by a young Londoner in 1629, but it's a poem that is at the same time deliverable to the infant Christ by some extraordinary violation, of course, of all of the established laws of temporal sequence.

显然弥尔顿想让我们了解这首《圣诞清晨歌》,是在1629由一位伦敦年轻人写的，但是它同时也是一首,通过非同寻常的方法能够交到圣婴手里的诗，当然这就需要他违反现有的一系列法律。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The breaking of so much as a single law constitutes the essence of anarchy, constitutes the essence of lawlessness, it is a far-reaching argument for obedience to the law.

只要违反一条法律,即可构成失序的本体，混乱的本体，这是一个深远的申论,关于服从法律。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选