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。
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is true, an old farmer, who had been down to New York on a visit several years after, and from whom this account of the ghostly adventure was received, brought home the intelligence that Ichabod Crane was still alive; that he had left the neighborhood partly through fear of the goblin and Hans Van Ripper, and partly in mortification at having been suddenly dismissed by the heiress; that he had changed his quarters to a distant part of the country; had kept school and studied law at the same time; had been admitted to the bar; turned politician; electioneered; written for the news-papers; and finally had been made a justice of the ten pound court.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I suppose the law has some protection to offer them."
-- "Can the law get blood out of a stone?
-- He told me of the long hours he spent walking about the Boulevard de la Madeleine on the look-out for Englishmen, preferably the worse for liquor, who desired to see things which the law forbade.
-- The character of a scoundrel, logical and complete, has a fascination for his creator which is an outrage to law and order.
-- It cannot be said that they are without guile, but they have a tolerant respect for the law, when the law is supported by strength.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This important step secured, with the assistance of a man of law whom he brought with him for the purpose, the dwarf proceeded to establish himself and his coadjutor in the house, as an assertion of his claim against all comers; and then set about making his quarters comfortable, after his own fashion.
-- 'Some people, Sir, would have sold or removed the goods oh dear, the very instant the law allowed 'em.
-- 'I don't wish to hold out any threats, sir indeed the law does not allow of threats, for to threaten is an indictable offence but if ever you do that again, take care you're not sat upon by the coroner and buried in a cross road before you wake.
-- That amiable virgin, having clung to the skirts of the Law from her earliest youth; having sustained herself by their aid, as it were, in her first running alone, and maintained a firm grasp upon them ever since; had passed her life in a kind of legal childhood.
-- The law had been her nurse.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After this lawyer had finished the prosecutor rose again and defended his position on the question of heredity against the first lawyer, stating that the fact that Bochkova's parentage was unknown did not invalidate the truth of the theory of heredity; that the law of heredity is so well established by science that not only can one deduce the crime from heredity, but heredity from the crime.
-- The secretary has just told me that the law cited by the prosecutor provides fifteen years' hard labor."
-- Before that night she herself believed in God, and believed that other people believed in Him; but after that night she became convinced that no one believed, and all that was said of God and His law was false and wrong.
-- The clerk, Vasilieff, took the chamberman's part, saying that there was no law permitting an official to beat prisoners.
-- He had recourse to the law everywhere, and the tapster was everywhere acquitted.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Any of the under-gamekeepers would gladly have changed places with him; but such was not the squire's pleasure, and the squire's pleasure was like law among them all.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Certainly," said I, carried away by the Captain's reasoning; "if the surface of the sea is solidified by the ice, the lower depths are free by the Providential law which has placed the maximum of density of the waters of the ocean one degree higher than freezing-point; and, if I am not mistaken, the portion of this iceberg which is above the water is as one to four to that which is below."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Only because the law prevents him," said Gerald.
-- "No," he said, "it is the law of creation.
-- They were married by law on the next day, and she did as he bade her, she wrote to her father and mother.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Heathcliff received no flogging, but he was told that the first word he spoke to Miss Catherine should ensure a dismissal; and Mrs. Earnshaw undertook to keep her sister in law in due restraint when she returned home; employing art, not force: with force sh e would have found it impossible.
-- Next time, Master Edgar, take the law into your own fists it will give you an appetite!
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