We may as well assert that because a child has thriven upon milk, that it is never to have meat, or that the first twenty years of our lives is to become a precedent for the next twenty.
你还不如说,因为一孩子是吃奶长大的,所以他永远不吃肉,或者说,我们一生的开年应成为年的先例。
In civil law law department country,legal precedent has no binding force but has convincible force in practice.