This still requires some preliminary paperwork.

游客仍需要预先提供一些证明文件。

The law doesn't make it illegal to be gay.

法律明文为同性恋并非违法。

It's against the rules. It's forbidden.

校明文禁止师生恋。

What? Like there's a rule or something?

怎么啦 难道还有什么明文禁止不？

It was founded in 1954 by self-declared messiah Sun Myung Moon.

它立于1954，由自称弥赛亚的孙明文创立。

In some cases, requests for supporting documents seemed absurdly demanding.

有时，要求提供证明文件似乎是荒谬的苛求。

And yes, these are real laws, and yes, you can be arrested for them.

这些都是明文的法律，违反都要坐牢的。

In expository prose, paragraphs can (and should) be neat and utilitarian.

写说明文的时候，段落可以（并且应该是）简洁实用。

This is not a rare thing, although it's against the law in most countries.

这并不罕见， 尽管大部分国家都明文禁止。

The event as we know it is not spelled out in the U.S. founding document.

国情咨文，如我们所知并不是美国建国文件中明文的。

Frederick Douglass has papers borrowed from a friend.

弗雷德里克·道格拉斯从朋友那里借来证明文件。

The Met said it had been given fake documentation for the piece.

大都会艺术博物馆方面称自己当时是收到该棺材的虚假证明文件才收下的。

It's aimed specifically at the entry of immigrants at the US-Mexico border who do not have documents.

主要针对那些美墨边境没有相关证明文件的移民的入境问题。

There are rules on how civil litigation is to take place and how counsel should conduct themselves.

对于民事诉讼的发生已经有明文而律师应该引导他们。

This desire for connection goes beyond interpersonal relations to a deeper, more fundamental level.

并非明文条例，而是灵魂的本质对连结的渴望，拥有一个比普通的人际关系更深的含义。

Finally, a death certificate on paper will continue to be around long after the person named on it.

最后，死亡证明文件在注明死者之后仍将继续存在很久。

To help them quit smoking, there are laws against cigarette advertising and smoking in public places.

为帮助他们戒烟，法律明文在公共场所禁止做香烟广告与吸烟。

The dispossession of old women continues despite laws that, on paper, protect them from predatory in-laws.

尽管有法律明文保护长女人免遭姻亲剥夺财产，但是姻亲对她们的财产的剥夺从未停止过。

It is not the text, but the texture that makes us human. The projecting of the symbolic self.

人之所以为人，不是什么明文条例的，而是自我的本质，是象征自我的投射。

This article is a piece of expository writing.

这篇文章是一篇说明文。