unlawful是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 不合法的， 违法的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Twenty Eight,' returned myinformant, speaking throughout in a low tone, and looking over hisshoulder as we walked along the passage, to guard himself frombeing overheard, in such an unlawful reference to theseImmaculates, by Creakle and the rest; 'Twenty Eight (alsotransportation) got a place, and robbed a young master of a matterof two hundred and fifty pounds in money and valuables, thenight before they were going abroad.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Visions of gallantry, knavery, robbery; and of the nightly absences from home for which he had accounted so strangely, having been occasioned by some unlawful pursuit; flocked into her brain and rendered her afraid to question him.
-- Men who had lounged about all night in smock-frocks and leather leggings, came out in silken vests and hats and plumes, as jugglers or mountebanks; or in gorgeous liveries as soft-spoken servants at gambling booths; or in sturdy yeoman dress as decoys at unlawful games.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Accordingly, the forger was put to Death; the utterer of a bad note was put to Death; the unlawful opener of a letter was put to Death; the purloiner of forty shillings and sixpence was put to Death; the holder of a horse at Tellson's door, who made off with it, was put to Death; the coiner of a bad shilling was put to Death; the sounders of three-fourths of the notes in the whole gamut of Crime, were put to Death.
-- 'My mind misgives me much,' said Mr. Lorry, angrily 437shaking a forefinger at him, 'that you have used the respect-able and great house of Tellson's as a blind, and that you have had an unlawful occupation of an infamous descrip-tion.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The affairs of this debtor were perplexed by a partnership, of which he knew no more than that he had invested money in it; by legal matters of assignment and settlement, conveyance here and conveyance there, suspicion of unlawful preference of creditors in this direction, and of mysterious spiriting away of property in that; and as nobody on the face of the earth could be more incapable of explaining any single item in the heap of confusion than the debtor himself, nothing comprehensible could be made of his case.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "And I, by agreeing to an unlawful divorce, shall be to blame for her ruin."
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