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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The law is upon his side, and every day I am faced by the possibility that he may force me to live with him.
-- I mean to teach them in these parts that law is law, and that there is a man here who does not fear to in-voke it.
-- 'That's lucky for him in fact, it's lucky for all of you, since you are all on the wrong side of the law in this matter.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Of course my mother couldn't do anything she's too old and whatever brother Senka says is law for her!But why couldn't he let me know?
-- They talk a good deal about the new law courts, and changes there, don't they?'
-- Well now, how is the law over there, do they administer it more justly than here?'
-- 'Well!naturally he came to grief: the law is not admin-istered as it used to be, and he only got laughed at for his pains.
-- Com-passion is the chief law of human existence.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Mr. Hall, endeavouring to act on instructions, received a sounding kick in the ribs that disposed of him for a moment, and Mr. Wadgers, seeing the decapitated stranger had rolled over and got the upper side of Jaffers, retreated towards the door, knife in hand, and so collided with Mr. Huxter and the Sidderbridge carter coming to the rescue of law and order.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I'm the law here, I tell you, the law and the prophets.
-- 'Law be damned!I'm king here.'
-- A series of propositions called the Law (I bad already heard them recited) battled in their minds with the deep-seated, ever-rebellious cravings of their animal natures.
-- This Law they were ever repeating, I found, and ever break-ing.
-- But during these earlier days of my stay they broke the Law only furtively and after dark; in the daylight there was a general atmosphere of respect for its multifarious pro-hibitions.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Father Wolf began angrily 'By the Law of the Jungle he has no right to change his quarters without due warning.
-- The Law of the Jungle, which never orders anything with-out a reason, forbids every beast to eat Man except when he is killing to show his children how to kill, and then he must hunt outside the hunting grounds of his pack or tribe.
-- The Law of the Jungle lays down very clearly that any wolf may, when he marries, withdraw from the Pack he be-longs to.
-- Now, the Law of the Jungle lays down that if there is any dispute as to the right of a cub to be accepted by the Pack, he must be spoken for by at least two members of the Pack who are not his father and mother.
-- Then the only other creature who is allowed at the Pack Council Baloo, the sleepy brown bear who teaches the wolf cubs the Law of the Jungle: old Baloo, who can come and go where he pleases because he eats only nuts and roots and honey rose upon his hind quarters and grunted.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Believers in religion, and friends to the law and to the king,' returned he who rode foremost.
-- Chapter 23 'But though the beast of game The privilege of chase may claim; Though space and law the stag we lend Ere hound we slip, or bow we bend; Whoever recked, where, how, or when The prowling fox was trapped or slain?
-- 'There is a principle in that,' he said, 'different from the law of the woods; and yet it is fair and noble to reflect upon.'
-- Then, facing the applicant, he regarded him a moment with deep attention; after which he said, in a low and reluc-tant voice: 'Justice is the law of the great Manitou.
-- The law of the Manitou is just.
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