Raphael Antonetti, the colonial governor, fought back with an avalanche of legalese.

殖民地总督拉斐尔·安东内蒂用连珠炮似的法语予以反击。

They found the content of the legalese contracts harder to understand and remember.

他发现法语合同的内容更难理解记忆。

Oh, well, that's just boilerplate legalese. I wouldn't even read that.

那就是些样板法语。我连看都懒得看。

His " legalese" got the better of him.

他的“法语”确实运用得很好。

Wayne said he had some experience " writing in legalese, " so he composed the three-page document himself.

韦恩说他有“用法语书写文件”的经验，所以这份三页纸的协议是由他完成的。

Let's not get tangled up in legalese. We like to think of it as an extension of our caring.

我不想这件事闹到法庭上。你可以把这看做我关怀的延续。

But the plague of legalese persists.

但法语的然存在。

I like to say that legalese is the language we use to confuse.

我想说法语是我用来混淆的语言。

And there's a lot of legalese involved.

这里涉及大量法语。

How do you fight Spot the cow with a 50-something page legalese indictment?

你如何用一份五十多页的法语起诉书，去对抗“Spot the Cow”这样的故事？

Let's not get tangled up in legalese.

我不想闹到法庭上去。

And they also include the really long legalese ballot issues that take forever to figure out.

还包括那些冗长的法条款投票问题，弄清楚这些要花上好长时间。

It's a fascinating document written in this legalese that Alexis Saint-Martin will submit to whatever experiments, et cetera.

这是一份用法语撰写的有趣文件，阿历克西斯·圣马丁将在上面同意接受各种实验等。

Oh, well, that's just boilerplate legalese.

那就是些样板法语。

The most common defence of legalese is the need for precision, says Mr Martinez (who trained as a lawyer before switching to cognitive science).

马丁内斯先生(在转向认知科学之前曾接受过师培训)表示，对法语最常见的辩护是对准确性的需求。

Like if, you know, I'm signing a lease and I need it to translate it into English from legalese or whatever, you know, that sort of thing.

比如， 你知道的， 如果我在签署租赁合同时需要将其从法语或其他语言翻译成英文，诸如此类的事情。

When you don't have a great local paper, voters are left stranded at the polls, confused, trying to make their best guess based on a paragraph of legalese.

如果你没有一家出色的地方报纸， 选民就会被在投票站，感到惑，试图根据一段法语做出他最好的猜测。

Perhaps legalese is a form of " in-group signalling" -behaviour used to signal belonging to a group, such as religious iconography or flag-waving at sports events, and aimed at fellow lawyers rather than clients?

也许法语是一种“群体内信号”——用来表示属于一个群体的行为，比如宗教图像或在体育赛事中挥舞旗帜，针对的是师同事而不是客户?

But when it happened, I phoned a friend of mine who was teaching at one of these universities, and I said to him, what they were reading sounded to me like legalese.

但当这种情况发生时， 我打电话给我的一位在这些大学之一任教的朋友，对他说， 他所读的内容在我听来像是法语。

Perhaps legalese is a form of in-group signalling, behaviour used to signal belonging to a group such as religious iconography or flag-waving at sports events and aimed at fellow lawyers rather than clients.

或许法语是一种内部群体信号，类似于宗教图标或体育赛事中的挥旗行为，目的是向同行师而非客户展示归属感。