n. 法律；规律；法治；法学；诉讼；司法界
vi. 起诉；控告
vt. 控告；对…起诉
n. (Law)人名；(东南亚国家华语)刘；(英、缅、柬)劳
英 [lɔː] 美 [lɔ]
权威例句
- The letter merely restated the law of the land.
这封信只不过重复了一下土地法。
来自柯林斯例句 - Mrs Allen's style of cooking owes much to her mother-in-law.
艾伦太太的烹饪风格很大程度上承传于她的婆婆。
来自柯林斯例句 - Eisenhower used his muscle to persuade Congress to change the law.
艾森豪威尔用他的影响力说服国会修改了该项法律。
来自柯林斯例句 - Traditionally young Asians in Britain have gravitated towards medicine, law and engineering.
英国的亚裔年轻人通常被吸引到医学、法律及工程专业。
来自柯林斯例句 - Namibian law permits ranchers to shoot cheetahs to protect their livestock.
纳米比亚法律允许农场主射杀猎豹以保护家畜。
来自柯林斯例句
中文词源
law 法律
来自PIE*legh,放置，词源同lie,lay.引申词义放置的标杆，准绳，法规，法律等。词义演变比较doom,statute。
英文词源
law
**law: **[10] Etymologically, a _law _is that which has been ‘laid’ down. English borrowed the word from Old Norse *_lagu _(replacing the native Old English _ǣ _‘law’), which was the plural of _lag _‘laying, good order’. This came ultimately from the prehistoric Germanic base *lag- ‘put’, from which English gets lay. It has no etymological connection with the semantically similar legal.
=> lay
law (n.)
Old English lagu (plural laga, comb. form lah-) "law, ordinance, rule, regulation; district governed by the same laws," from Old Norse *lagu "law," collective plural of lag "layer, measure, stroke," literally "something laid down or fixed," from Proto-Germanic *lagan "put, lay" (see lay (v.)).
Replaced Old English æ and gesetnes, which had the same sense development as law. Compare also statute, from Latin statuere; German Gesetz "law," from Old High German gisatzida; Lithuanian istatymas, from istatyti "set up, establish." In physics, from 1660s. Law and order have been coupled since 1796.
