legal是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The learned profession of the law was certainly not behind any other learned profession in its Bacchanalian propensities; neither was Mr. Stryver, already fast shouldering his way to a large and lucrative practice, behind his compeers in this particular, any more than in the drier parts of the legal race.
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：
-- 48 Andersen's Fairy Tales The copying-clerk turned round and spoke awhile with the man about the reports and legal documents in ques-tion; but when he had finished, and his eye fell again on the Shoes, he was unable to say whether those to the left or those to the right belonged to him.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In his own case, Alexey Alexandrovitch saw that a legal divorce, that is to say, one in which only the guilty wife would be repudiated, was impossible of attainment.
-- Alexey Alexandrovitch was in principle in favor of the publicity of legal proceedings, though for some higher official considerations he disliked the application of the principle in Russia, and disapproved of it, as far as he could disapprove of anything instituted by authority of the Emperor.
-- "I have the misfortune," Alexey Alexandrovitch began, "to have been deceived in my married life, and I desire to break off all relations with my wife by legal means--that is, to be divorced, but to do this so that my son may not remain with his mother."
-- It is very possible that if that form does not correspond with my requirements I may give up a legal divorce."
-- He wants first of all to legitimize his daughter, and to be your husband, to have a legal right to you."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At four, the Arrowsmiths had been accepted by the most desperately Smart Set of Nautilus, and at four-thirty they were driven home, at a speed neither legal nor kind, by Clay Tredgold.
-- Bissex has a legal right to reduce your salary all he wants to.
-- He's running a sanitarium out on Long Island--slick idea, too--practically he's a bootlegger; gets a lot of high- rollers out there and let's 'em have all the hooch they want, on prescriptions, absolutely legal and water-tight!The parties they throw at that joint, dames and everything!Believe me, Uncle Clif is sore stricken with tootelus bootelus and is going to the Carr Sanitarium for what ails him!But now look: Suppose we got him or somebody to rig up a new kind of cure--call it phageotherapy--oh, it takes Uncle Clif to invent the names that claw in the bounteous dollars!Patients sit in a steam cabinet and eat tablets made of phage, with just a little strychnin to jazz up their hearts!Bran- new!Million in it!What- cha-think?"
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：
-- 'I have mentioned already that Pyotr Petrovitch is just setting off for Petersburg, where he has a great deal of busi-ness, and he wants to open a legal bureau.
-- And if Mr. Luzhin had been of unalloyed gold, or one huge diamond, she would never have consented to become his legal concubine.
-- And do you suppose, from the character of our legal system, that they will accept, or that they are in a posi-tion to accept, this fact resting simply on a psychological impossibility as irrefutable and conclusively breaking down the circumstantial evidence for the prosecution?
-- I have, too, a very important legal affair in the Senate, not to mention other preoccupa-tions which you may well conjecture.
-- 'Legal documents are written like that to this day.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I am improving my legal knowledge Master Copperfield,' saidUriah.
-- That individualis in legal possession of the premises, under a distress for rent.
-- We varied the legal characterof these proceedings by going to see some perspiring waxwork, inFleet Street (melted, I should hope, these twenty years); and byvisiting Miss Linwood's Exhibition, which I remember as amausoleum of needle-work, favourable to self-examination andrepentance; and by inspecting the Tower of London; and going tothe top of St. Paul's.
-- On a table by the window in Buckingham Street, we set out thework Traddles procured for him- which was to make, I forget how 489many copies of a legal document about some right of way- and onanother table we spread the last unfinished original of the greatMemorial.
-- 'To a man possessed of the higherimaginative powers, the objection to legal studies is the amount ofdetail which they involve.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'As to the circumstances of her birth, though in a legal sense she may be called Nobody, it will not hold in common sense.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had latterly been in great doubt as to what the legal effects of her marriage would be upon her position; but no notice had been taken as yet of her change of name, and only one point was clear that in the event of her own or her husband's inability to meet the agent at the forthcoming January rent-day, very little consideration would be shown, and, for that matter, very little would be deserved.
-- It may be merely this legal reason which influences her, or it may be a religious one, but she is reluctant to talk on the point.
-- The autumn wore away gloomily enough amid these melancholy conjectures, and Christmas-day came, completing a year of her legal widowhood, and two years and a quarter of her life alone.
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