lawful是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 合法的， 法律的，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Instantly the scene changed, crowds of friends gathered round our baron, who meanwhile had lost his head over a celebrated demi-mondaine; he even discovered some relations; moreover a number of young girls of high birth burned to be united to him in lawful matrimony.
-- But after all he is half justified; publicity is the lawful right of every man; consequently, Burdovsky is not excepted.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The illuminated village had seized hold of the tocsin, and, abolishing the lawful ringer, rang for joy.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had on the Shoes; for as yet no lawful owner had appeared to claim them; and besides it was so very dirty out-of-doors, they were just the thing for him, he thought.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- she was an honorable woman who had bestowed her love upon him, and he loved her, and therefore she was in his eyes a woman who had a right to the same, or even more, respect than a lawful wife.
-- He wanted to say too that if public opinion were an infallible guide, then why were not revolutions and the commune as lawful as the movement in favor of the Slavonic peoples?
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I say, young gentleman, may Providence bless your undertaking, which is altogether for good; and, remember, that to outwit the knaves it is lawful to practise things that may not be naturally the gift of a white-skin.'
-- Practise all your cunning, for it is a lawful undertaking.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We were united in lawful wedlock and she bore me off into the country like a treasure.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To this hour I don't know whether my aunt had any lawful right ofway over that patch of green; but she had settled it in her ownmind that she had, and it was all the same to her.
-- Anyone of these scouts used to think nothing of politely assisting anold lady in black out of a vehicle, killing any proctor whom sheinquired for, representing his employer as the lawful successor andrepresentative of that proctor, and bearing the old lady off(sometimes greatly affected) to his employer's office.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As it was too late an hour to repair to the exhibition room, they turned aside into a piece of waste ground that lay just within the old town-gate, and drew up there for the night, near to another caravan, which, notwithstanding that it bore on the lawful panel the great name of Jarley, and was employed besides in conveying from place to place the wax-work which was its country's pride, was designated by a grovelling stamp-office as a 'Common Stage Waggon,' and numbered too seven thousand odd hundred as though its precious freight were mere flour or coals!
-- CHAPTER 35Mr Brass on returning home received the report of his clerk with much complacency and satisfaction, and was particular in inquiring after the ten-pound note, which, proving on examination to be a good and lawful note of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, increased his good-humour considerably.
-- She was in a state of lawful innocence, so to speak.
-- You're a responsible party, and in such a case lawful money and lawful notice are pretty much the same.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Coggan,' he said, 'I could never wish for a handsomer woman than I've got, but feeling she's ticketed as my lawful wife, I can't help my wicked heart wandering, do what I will.'
-- "I be his lawful wife!"
-- said again the shrill tongue of Laban's lawful wife.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And I'll thank you for that bag, Mrs. Crossley, to bring back our lawful money in."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would be more creditable to you, I think, to let other people allong and marshong about their lawful business, instead of shutting 'em up in quarantine!'
-- On the first-floor of the house was a Bank a surprising experience for any gentleman of commercial pursuits bringing laws for all mankind from a British city where two spare clerks, like dried dragoons, in green velvet caps adorned with golden tassels, stood, bearded, behind a small counter in a small room, containing no other visible objects than an empty iron-safe with the door open, a jug of water, and a papering of garland of roses; but who, on lawful requisition, by merely dipping their hands out of sight, could produce exhaustless mounds of five-franc pieces.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- no lawful way? Make him a prisoner to be taken home?
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- who, as to me, were innocent, and whose barbarous customs were their own disaster, being in them a token, indeed, of God's having left them, with the other nations of that part of the world, to such stupidity, and to such inhuman courses, but did not call me to take upon me to be a judge of their actions, much less an executioner of His justice - that whenever He thought fit He would take the cause into His own hands, and by national vengeance punish them as a people for na-tional crimes, but that, in the meantime, it was none of my business - that it was true Friday might justify it, because he was a declared enemy and in a state of war with those very particular people, and it was lawful for him to attack them - but I could not say the same with regard to myself.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- According to the sailor, any animal, whatever it was, would be a lawful prize, and the rodents or carnivora which might get into the new snares would be well received at Granite House.
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