记忆方法
1. 法律是最近才立的.
2. 所以legislate可记成：为腿（leg）立法，总是（is）太迟（late）
2. 所以legislate可记成：为腿（leg）立法，总是（is）太迟（late）
中文词源
legislate 立法
来自拉丁语legis lation,立法，legis,法律，词源同legal,lation,提出，带来，词源同translate.
英语词源
- legislate (v.)
- 1805, back-formation from legislation, etc. Related: Legislated; legislating.
权威例句
- 1. You cannot legislate to change attitudes.
- 态度是不能用立法来改变的。
- 2. The government will legislate against discrimination in the workplace.
- 政府将制定法律，在工作场所禁止歧视。
- 3. Parliament may legislate on any matter of penal law.
- 议会可以对刑事法律的任何事项立法.
- 4. Higher medical costs legislate against an improvement in health.
- 医疗费用的上涨妨碍了健康的改善.
- 5. People legislate continually by means of talk.
- 人们用讲话不断地制订着法律.