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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, turn to that paper, and tell me whether it distinctly states that the prisoner expressly said that his legal advisers instructed him altogether to reserve his defence?"
-- "Now, follow that passage with your eye, and tell me whether it distinctly states that the prisoner expressly said that he was instructed by his legal advisers wholly to reserve his defence?
-- "Which I say, sir," replied Joe, with an air of legal formality, as if he were making his will, "Miss A., or otherways Havisham.
-- As we got more and more into debt, breakfast became a hollower and hollower form, and, being on one occasion at breakfast-time threatened (by letter) with legal proceedings, "not unwholly unconnected," as my local paper might put it, "with jewelery," I went so far as to seize the Avenger by his blue collar and shake him off his feet,--so that he was actually in the air, like a booted Cupid,--for presuming to suppose that we wanted a roll.
-- The book itself had the appearance of having been stolen from some court of justice, and perhaps his knowledge of its antecedents, combined with his own experience in that wise, gave him a reliance on its powers as a sort of legal spell or charm.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So the compensation was only three hundred pounds, and they made out as if it was more of a gift than legal compensation, because it was really the man's own fault.
-- She said she was come back to him and wanted to live with him again, as she was his legal wife, and he wasn't going to divorce her.
-- But the day after she was at her brother Pan's at Beggarlee, swearing and carrying on, saying she was his legal wife, and that he'd beers having women at the cottage, because she'd found a scent-bottle in his drawer, and gold-tipped cigarette-ends on the ash-heap, and I don't know what all.
-- They then proceeded to take legal steps against my liege lady, who for her part disappeared, having always had a mortal fear of the police.
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.
-- 'It would be settled on herself, and they would have no more legal claim on it than you,' would be the professional answer.
-- You are a young man that I should like to put in the witness-box, to humanise the minds of the legal profession.
-- Previous to his son-in-law's difficulties coming to that head, Old Nandy (he was always so called in his legal Retreat, but he was Old Mr Nandy among the Bleeding Hearts) had sat in a corner of the Plornish fireside, and taken his bite and sup out of the Plornish cupboard.
-- How it had at length become plain to Mr Pancks that he had made a real discovery of the heir-at-law to a great fortune, and that his discovery had but to be ripened to legal fulness and perfection.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- During one of her play hours she wrote out the impor-tant document as well as she could, with some help from Esther as to certain legal terms, and when the good-natured Frenchwoman had signed her name, Amy felt relieved and laid it by to show Laurie, whom she wanted as a second witness.
-- 'I want you to read that, please, and tell me if it is legal and right.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They embarked; and so for ever got the start of their former captain, had he been at all minded to work them legal retribution.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I and two paupers, Mrs. Mann!A legal action is a coming on, about a settlement; and the board has appointed me--me, Mrs. Mann-- to dispose to the matter before the quarter-sessions at Clerkinwell.
-- 'I don't think it would exonerate him, either with them, or with legal functionaries of a higher grade.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why did you not seek legal redress?'
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But her death, which happened ten years before his own, produced a great alteration in his home; for to supply her loss, he invited and received into his house the family of his nephew Mr. Henry Dashwood, the legal inheritor of the Norland estate, and the person to whom he intended to bequeath it.
-- "I felt myself," she added, "to be as solemnly engaged to him, as if the strictest legal covenant had bound us to each other."
-- Her legal allowance was not adequate to her fortune, nor sufficient for her comfortable maintenance, and I learnt from my brother that the power of receiving it had been made over some months before to another person.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was simply letting things drift because he preferred the free round of his present state to any legal trammellings.
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