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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Do you know, or do you not know, that the law of England supposes every man to be innocent, until he is proved--proved--to be guilty?"
-- Which side he was on I couldn't make out, for he seemed to me to be grinding the whole place in a mill; I only know that when I stole out on tiptoe, he was not on the side of the bench; for, he was making the legs of the old gentleman who presided, quite convulsive under the table, by his denunciations of his conduct as the representative of British law and justice in that chair that day.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Throughout their lives they remained close friends, and both studied law at Marburg University.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I desired you would let me know, by a letter, when party and faction were extinguished; judges learned and upright; pleaders honest and modest, with some tincture of common sense, and Smithfield blazing with pyramids of law books; the young nobility's education entirely changed; the physicians banished; the female Yahoos abounding in virtue, honour, truth, and good sense; courts and levees of great ministers thoroughly weeded and swept; wit, merit, and learning rewarded; all disgracers of the press in prose and verse condemned to eat nothing but their own cotton, and quench their thirst with their own ink.
-- Many hundred large volumes have been published upon this controversy: but the books of the Big- endians have been long forbidden, and the whole party rendered incapable by law of holding employ-ments.
-- They look upon fraud as a greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail to punish it with death; for they allege, that care and vigilance, with a very common understand-ing, may preserve a man's goods from thieves, but honesty has no defence against superior cunning; and, since it is necessary that there should be a perpetual intercourse of buying and selling, and dealing upon credit, where fraud is permitted and connived at, or has no law to punish it, the honest dealer is always undone, and the knave gets the advantage.
-- For, since the conjunction of male and female is founded upon the great law of na-ture, in order to propagate and continue the species, the Lilliputians will needs have it, that men and women are joined together, like other animals, by the motives of con-cupiscence; and that their tenderness towards their young proceeds from the like natural principle: for which reason they will never allow that a child is under any obligation to his father for begetting him, or to his mother for bring-ing him into the world; which, considering the miseries of human life, was neither a benefit in itself, nor intended so by his parents, whose thoughts, in their love encounters, were otherwise employed.
-- No law in that country must exceed in words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists only of two and twenty.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thou hast been that to me, Rachael, through so many year: thou hast done me so much good, and heartened of me in that cheering way, that thy word is a law to me.
-- 'If I do her any hurt, sir, there's a law to punish me?'
-- 'If I flee from her, there's a law to punish me?'
-- 'If I marry t'oother dear lass, there's a law to punish me?'
-- 'If I was to live wi' her an' not marry her saying such a thing could be, which it never could or would, an' her so good there's a law to punish me, in every innocent child belonging to me?'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yes--according to a law which, however, is scarcely defined.
-- At a certain period, the earth consisted only of an elastic crust, liable to alternative upward and downward movements in virtue of the law of attraction.
-- Are not all bodies influenced by the law of universal attraction?
-- Everything is subordinate to some great law of nature.
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：
-- Well, dunna fret!There's no law says as tha's got to.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Where's your law for tying it up then?'
-- The deepest character whom the turnkey sounded, was unable to produce his law for tying such a knot as that.
-- With intervals of Marshalsea lounging, and Mrs Bangham succession, his small second mother, aided by her trusty friend, got him into a warehouse, into a market garden, into the hop trade, into the law again, into an auctioneers, into a brewery, into a stockbroker's, into the law again, into a coach office, into a waggon office, into the law again, into a general dealer's, into a distillery, into the law again, into a wool house, into a dry goods house, into the Billingsgate trade, into the foreign fruit trade, and into the docks.
-- 'Monsieur, the law could not prove it against him to its satisfaction.
-- So the law says.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meg observed it, but did not trouble her-self to make inquiries, for she had learned that the best way to manage Jo was by the law of contraries, so she felt sure of being told everything if she did not ask.
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