law是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 法律, 法规, 法学, 规律, 定律,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《圣诞颂歌》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Daring bur-glaries by armed men, and highway robberies, took place in the capital itself every night; families were publicly cautioned not to go out of town without removing their furniture to upholsterers' warehouses for security; the highwayman in the dark was a City tradesman in the light, and, being recognised and challenged by his fellowtradesman whom he stopped in his character of 'the Captain,' gallantly shot him through the head and rode away; the mall was waylaid by seven robbers, and the guard shot three dead, and then got shot dead himself by the other four, 'in consequence of the failure of his ammunition:' after which the mall was robbed in peace; that magnificent potentate, the Lord May-or of London, was made to stand and deliver on Turnham Green, by one highwayman, who despoiled the illustrious creature in sight of all his retinue; prisoners in London gaols fought battles with their turnkeys, and the majesty of the law fired blunderbusses in among them, loaded with rounds of shot and ball; thieves snipped off diamond cross-es from the necks of noble lords at Court drawing-rooms; musketeers went into St. Giles's, to search for contraband goods, and the mob fired on the musketeers, and the mus-keteers fired on the mob, and nobody thought any of these occurrences much out of the common way.
-- 'It's hard in the law to spile a man, I think.
-- Take care of your chest and voice, my good friend, and leave the law to take care of itself.
-- This much, Jerry, with his head becoming more and more spiky as the law terms bristled it, made out with huge satisfac-tion, and so arrived circuitously at the understanding that the aforesaid, and over and over again aforesaid, Charles Darnay, stood there before him upon his trial; that the jury were swearing in; and that Mr. Attorney-General was mak-ing ready to speak.
-- 'And as such,' quoth Mr. Lorry, whom the counsel learned in the law had now shouldered back into the group, just as he had previously shouldered him out of it 'as such I will appeal to Doctor Manette, to break up this conference and order us all to our homes.
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:
-- * * As on the continent, in all law and police practices nothing is verbal, but any circumstance, however trifling, is reduced to writing, the labor, as well as the number of pa-pers that thus accumulate, is enormous.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- A nervous young man, a clerk in a law court, sitting opposite him, hated him for that look.
-- 17,015 and 18,038, from December 5, 1863, and June 7, 1864, acted in direct contravention of the intent of the law T...Act 18, and the note to Act 36.
-- "You can conjecture what awaits you and your son...." "That's a threat to take away my child, and most likely by their stupid law he can.
-- In the new public law courts he disliked the restrictions laid on the lawyers conducting cases.
-- But till then he had had nothing to do with the law courts, and so had disapproved of their publicity simply in theory; now his disapprobation was strengthened by the unpleasant impression made on him in the lawyer's waiting room.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There was no study, nor were there books, which would have been quite useless to Mr. Fogg; for at the Reform two libraries, one of general literature and the other of law and politics, were at his service.
-- The policeman was a representative of the law, and law is sacred to an Englishman.
-- "Inasmuch," resumed the judge, "as the English law protects equally and sternly the religions of the Indian people, and as the man Passepartout has admitted that he violated the sacred pagoda of Malabar Hill, at Bombay, on the 20th of October, I condemn the said Passepartout to imprisonment for fifteen days and a fine of three hundred pounds."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Now that most of his Arts classmates had departed to insurance offices, law schools, and banks, he was lonely, and tempted by an invitation from Digamma Pi, the chief medical fraternity.
-- To Madeline, Gottlieb was a wicked old man who made fun of the sanctities of Marriage and Easter lilies, to Clif, he was a bore, but Leora glowed as Martin banged the table and quoted his idol: "Up to the present, even in the work of Ehrlich, most research has been largely a matter of trial and error, the empirical method, which is the opposite of the scientific method, by which one seeks to establish a general law governing a group of phenomena so that he may predict what will happen."
-- Fact, one time I planned to study law and go right in for politics.
-- Why, say, one day he showed up at the St. Patrick picnic, even if he is a dirty Protestant, and him and Father Costello chummed up like two old cronies, and darn' if he didn't wrestle a fellow half his age, and awful' near throw him, yes, you bet he did, he certainly give that young fellow a run for his money all right!We fellows on the Force all like him, and we have to grin, the way he comes around and soft-soaps us into doing a lot of health work that by law we ain't hardly supposed to do, you might say, instead of issuing a lot of fool orders.
-- He broke every law of property by raiding shops for supplies.
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'm studying the law you see!It's evident, e-vi-dent there's something wrong here!'
-- So, when he heard about you 芒聙娄 about your being a law student and not able to finish your studies, he said, 'What a pity!'
-- There is, if you recollect, a suggestion that there are certain persons who can 芒聙娄 that is, not precisely are able to, but have a perfect right to commit breaches of morality and crimes, and that the law is not for them.'
-- But extraordinary men have a right to commit any crime and to transgress the law in any way, just because they are extraordinary.
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