legislation

legislation — 名詞

1. a written rule or set of rules that a government has formally approved and that

1.名詞B2
釋義

法律；法規

政府正式批准的成文規則

a written rule or set of rules that a government has formally approved and that people in a country are required to obey

例句

New data privacy legislation requires companies to get permission before collecting personal information from users.

新的資料隱私法規要求公司在收集使用者個人資訊之前，必須獲得對方的同意。

collocation: new + legislation on a topic

Under recent environmental legislation, factories must cut carbon emissions by twenty percent by next year.

根據最新的環境保護法規，工廠必須在明年之前將碳排放量減少百分之二十。

preposition: under + legislation (indicating authority)

同義詞
  • law

    the most general term; legislation suggests formal, often multi-part, written rules

  • regulation

    more specific — rules made by an authority to control how something operates

  • statute

    formal term for a written law passed by a legislative body; less common in everyday language

  • act

    refers to a single piece of legislation passed by a parliament

常見錯誤

❌Several new legislations were passed last month.
✅Several new pieces of legislation were passed last month.
💡Legislation is uncountable; use 'pieces of legislation' or rephrase to 'several new laws'.

2. the entire activity of creating new laws, which includes suggesting ideas, discu

2.名詞B2
釋義

立法

制定與通過法律的過程

the entire activity of creating new laws, which includes suggesting ideas, discussing them, and finally giving them official approval

例句

Legislation is often a slow process because each proposed law needs review by several committees.

立法通常是個漫長的過程，因為每一項法案都需要經過好幾個委員會仔細審查。

uncountable as process: 'Legislation is...'

The senator has spent most of her career involved in legislation on education reform.

這位參議員職業生涯的大部分時間都投入在教育改革的立法工作上。

collocation: involved in legislation on [topic]

同義詞
  • lawmaking

    more informal and direct; interchangeable in many contexts

  • governance

    broader term covering all aspects of running a country, not just making laws

  • law reform

    narrower — specifically about improving or changing existing laws

反義詞
  • abolition

    the act of officially ending a law or system, the opposite of creating one

用法筆記

Only sense that refers to the activity rather than the resulting written rules. Unlike sense 1 (LAWS AND RULES), this sense cannot be described with 'a piece of' or modified with adjectives such as 'tough' or 'new'.