Law

(noun.) the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system; 'he studied law at Yale'.

(noun.) a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society.

(noun.) a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature; 'the laws of thermodynamics'.

(noun.) legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity; 'there is a law against kidnapping'.

(noun.) the collection of rules imposed by authority; 'civilization presupposes respect for the law'; 'the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order'.

整理:劳拉

• The marine-store merchant holds the light, and the law-stationer conducts the search. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The subject of gymnastic leads Plato to the sister subject of medicine, which he further illustrates by the parallel of law. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• If as a set-off (excuse the legal phrase from a barrister-at-law) you would like to ask Tippins to tea, I pledge myself to make love to her. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• It had its own law courts. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But the law insists on your smoking your cigar, sir, when you have once chosen it. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• The perpetual allotment and destination of this fund, indeed, is not always guarded by any positive law, by any trust-right or deed of mortmain. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• A little way within the shop-door lay heaps of old crackled parchment scrolls and discoloured and dog's-eared law-papers. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• At one time I considered whether I should not declare myself guilty, and suffer the penalty of the law, less innocent than poor Justine had been. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Our first crude patent law was enacted in 1790, but not until 1836 was the present system adopted. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Is this regular, and according to the law of combat? 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• It's a regulation of natur--a dispensary, as your poor mother-in-law used to say. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• But all power of a high order depends on an understanding of the essential character, or law, of heat, light, sound, gravity, and the like. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• But why this should be a law of nature if each species has been independently created no man can explain. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• I was determined that the law should have its way in everything. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Ah, lass, and a bright good law! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• The reactions were all varied in various people, but they followed a few great laws, and intrinsically there was no difference. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• I say that these monstrous laws of yours will bring a curse upon the land--God will not let such wickedness endure. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• But the gypsies have many laws they do not admit to having. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• The instrument may be made before the laws which govern its operation are discovered. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• I said he was right there--never under my roof, where the Lares were sacred, and the laws of hospitality paramount. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• And all this your laws give him power to do, in spite of God or man. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• These fundamental principles have since been adopted and incorporated in their laws by all the nations of the earth. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The heralds then proclaimed silence until the laws of the tourney should be rehearsed. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Our ignorance of the laws of variation is profound. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Yet no one would seriously maintain that the West is more progressive because it has progressive laws. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• In the Laws there is hardly anything but laws; not much is said about the constitution. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Bell, inheriting unusual knowledge of the laws of speech and sound, came from the other direction. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• As a result of this experiment Galileo declared three laws in relation to falling bodies. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Galileo determined to study the laws of mechanics by experiment, and not, as so many earlier scientists had done, by argument or mere theoretical opinions. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• But this complement may be much inferior to what, with other laws and institutions, the nature of its soil, climate, and situation, might admit of. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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