Is it time to legalise all drugs!

现在是时候合法化所有药物！

Iowa and Vermont became the latest American states to legalise gay marriage.

爱荷华州及佛蒙特州正为美国最新两个同性婚姻合法化的州。

In New England, proponents are hoping to legalise gay marriage in all six states by 2012.

在新英格兰地区[1]，支持者们希望在2012年前，6个州都能实现同性婚姻的合法化。

Chile was the last country to legalise divorce in 2004 after overwhelming public pressure.

智利2004年迫于公众压力成为最后一个将离婚合法化的国家。

He promises to introduce a professional civil service and legalise the vast mass of informal businesses.

他承诺会引入专业的行政机制，将大量的非正规企业合法化。

Philip Fearnside of the National Institute of Amazon Research said the amnesty would "legalise the illegal".

亚马逊国家研究所的Philip Fearnside说，特赦将“使非法行为得到承认”。

The category of payments he would like to legalise are “harassment bribes”, made by a person to get things to which he is legally entitled.

他建议合法化的贿赂是“骚扰贿赂”，即某人为了获得应依法获得之物而行贿。

The category of payments he would like to legalise are "harassment bribes", made by a person to get things to which he is legally entitled.

他愿意使之合法化的付款种类是“骚扰贿赂”，即某人使用合法权利获得某物。

That looked like an attempt to legalise the murder of the few doctors who provide abortions there, and the bill was shelved after heavy criticism.

这一建议似乎要将谋杀(为别人做堕胎手术的)医生合法化，但该法案随即遭到非议，只能搁置下来。

Outsiders might treat him with more respect if he threatened to legalise cocaine or cosy up to Hugo Chávez, Venezuela's oil-rich anti-American leader.

如果他威胁说要将可卡因合法化，或者与委内瑞拉那位靠卖石油致富的反美领导人乌戈·查韦斯套近乎，那世界可能会给他一些尊重。

Five years after the Netherlands became the first country to legalise gay marriage, it is still not clear whether the global battle is being won or lost.

五年前，荷兰成为首个将同性婚姻合法化的国家；五年后，争取同性婚姻合法化的全球斗争的成败态势仍然并不明朗。

One way of interpreting the changes is that rather than creating new opportunities, they merely legalise what was already a widespread informal economy of clandestine private enterprise.

解释这种变化的原因，与其说是创造了一种新的机会，不如说他们只是将已经广泛存在、非正式的隐秘的私企经济合法化而已。