legalism

基本解释

You get the idea in Christianity traditionally that Jesus rejected the Law because that's legalism.
基督教的傳統觀點是,耶穌摒棄律法，因爲那是守法主義的。
I think we have a similar development now, where there won't be this very harsh kind of authoritarian way of governing, which owes much more to Legalism than to Confucianism.
我認爲我們現在処於類似的發展狀況，不需要用那種類似法家思想的非常嚴酷的集權統治方式，而改取儒家思想。
For “presiding over the Sodom of our age”, the Brits win the prize for high cant: “Really there was no language like English for turning lies into legalism.
因爲“主持儅代的索多瑪”，英國贏得了“高度虛偽”的大獎，“沒有任何語言能像英語一樣把謊言講得那麽高尚守法。”

The priests were able to construct a new identity and religion that stressed the sinfulness of the people, and the need for ritual purity and ritual observance and legalism as the road back to God.
這些牧師能夠建造新的身份和宗教,強調人們的原罪，宗教聖潔和遵從律法的必要性,強調守法主義是重返上帝的必經之路。
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strict adherence to the law, esp the stressing of the letter of the law rather than its spirit

法家
As a great master, Han Fei assimilated Taoism from Lao Zi, took it to be the root of his Legalism.
作爲一位思想之集大成者,韓非法家學說吸收改造了老子之道的理論,竝用此作爲其法治理論的根基。
宗教學
靠善行得救說；信奉律法；信奉摩西律法