- 1nC2
/ˌledʒɪˈsleɪʃən/
A law, or a set of laws, that a government makes.
法律／立法
核心畫面
One way to hold it: law as a body of written rules a government has passed. Not one clause and not the courts — the whole block of text that now applies to everybody, and the act of putting it in place.
可以想成政府通過、白紙黑字寫下來的那一整套規定：不是某一條，也不是法院那一邊，而是現在對所有人生效的那一大塊文字，以…更多收起
可以想成政府通過、白紙黑字寫下來的那一整套規定：不是某一條，也不是法院那一邊，而是現在對所有人生效的那一大塊文字，以及把它訂出來的這件事。中文看場合譯成「法律」或「立法」。原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
legislationnoun/ˌlɛd͡ʒɪˈsleɪʃən/
- 1
The act of legislating; preparation and enactment of laws.
- pass legislation
- There is a lack of legislation about human cloning.
- 2
A law which has been enacted by legislature or other governing body.
- The general rule is that constitutional provisions are self-executing, except when the provisions themselves expressly require legislations to implement them […]
- Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation on Sunday banning the sale at grocery checkouts of all plastic bags, regardless of thickness.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。