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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The province of Victoria not only refused to admit them, but passed a law to prevent any ticket-of-leave men from other provinces from entering her territories.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Apart from the law he seems a kindly, good-natured person, and I only mention him because you were particular that I should send some description of the people who surround us.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What under the heavens he did it for, I cannot tell, but his next movement was to crush himself boots in hand, and hat on under the bed; when, from sundry violent gaspings and strainings, I inferred he was hard at work booting himself; though by no law of propriety that I ever heard of, is any man required to be private when putting on his boots.
-- Delight, top-gallant delight is to him, who acknowledges no law or lord, but the Lord his God, and is only a patriot to heaven.
-- Will you tell me whether it is an unalterable law in this fishery, Mr. Flask, for an oarsman to break his own back pulling himself back-foremost into death's jaws?"
-- There's your law of precedents; there's your utility of traditions; there's the story of your obstinate survival of old beliefs never bottomed on the earth, and now not even hovering in the air!There's orthodoxy!
-- Thus the most vexatious and violent disputes would often arise between the fishermen, were there not some written or unwritten, universal, undisputed law applicable to all cases.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Although Oliver had been brought up by philosophers, he was not theoretically acquainted with the beautiful axiom that self-preservation is the first law of nature.
-- Let this be a lesson to you, my man, or the law will overtake you yet.
-- said the Jew, taking up a jagged and knotted club which law in a corner of the fireplace; 'eh?'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In town I believe he chiefly lived, but his studying the law was a mere pretence, and being now free from all restraint, his life was a life of idleness and dissipation.
-- He had found the law a most unprofitable study, and was now absolutely resolved on being ordained, if I would present him to the living in question of which he trusted there could be little doubt, as he was well assured that I had no other person to provide for, and I could not have forgotten my revered father's in-tentions.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From hence I sometimes was led too far, to invade the sovereignty of Providence, and, as it were, arraign the justice of so arbitrary a disposition of things, that should hide that sight from some, and reveal it - to others, and yet expect a like duty from both; but I shut it up, and checked my thoughts with this conclusion: first, that we did not know by what light and law these should be condemned; but that as God was necessarily, and by the nature of His being, infinitely holy and just, so it could not be, but if these creatures were all sentenced to absence from Himself, it was on account of sinning against that light which, as the Scripture says, was a law to themselves, and by such rules as their consciences would acknowledge to be just, though the foundation was not discovered to us; and secondly, that still as we all are the clay in the hand of the potter, no vessel could say to him, 'Why hast thou formed me thus?'
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The law was allowed to be genteel enough; many young men, who had chambers in the Temple, made a very good appearance in the first circles, and drove about town in very knowing gigs.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Just a shade of a thought of the hour entered Carrie's head, but there was no household law to govern her now.
-- There is more in the subject than mere conformity to a law of evolution.
-- By the natural law which governs all effort, what he wrote reacted upon him.
-- In the shade of a green pagoda a bebuttoned officer of the law was resting, his arms folded, his club at rest in his belt.
-- Now that she had practically cowed him, she would follow up her work with demands, the acknowledgment of which would make her word LAW in the future.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Next day he was drunk, and he went to Judge Thatcher's and bullyragged him, and tried to make him give up the money; but he couldn't, and then he swore he'd make the law force him.
-- The judge and the widow went to law to get the court to take me away from him and let one of them be my guard-ian; but it was a new judge that had just come, and he didn't know the old man; so he said courts mustn't interfere and separate families if they could help it; said he'd druther not take a child away from its father.
-- That law trial was a slow business appeared like they warn't ever going to get started on it; so every now and then I'd borrow two or three dollars off of the judge for him, to keep from getting a cowhiding.
-- Here's the law a-standing ready to take a man's son away from him a man's own son, which he has had all the trouble and all the anxiety and all the expense of rais-ing.
-- Yes, just as that man has got that son raised at last, and ready to go to work and begin to do suthin' for HIM and give him a rest, the law up and goes for him.
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