law

英 [l??] 美[l?]

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復數:?laws;

law 法律

來自PIE*legh,放置，詞源同lie,lay.引申詞義放置的標桿，準繩，法規，法律等。詞義演變比較doom,statute。

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 ? ‘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.
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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 ? 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.

2. Mrs Allen's style of cooking owes much to her mother-in-law.: 艾倫太太的烹飪風格很大程度上承傳于她的婆婆。

3. Eisenhower used his muscle to persuade Congress to change the law.: 艾森豪威爾用他的影響力說服國會修改了該項法律。

4. Traditionally young Asians in Britain have gravitated towards medicine, law and engineering.: 英國的亞裔年輕人通常被吸引到醫學、法律及工程專業。

5. Namibian law permits ranchers to shoot cheetahs to protect their livestock.: 納米比亞法律允許農場主射殺獵豹以保護家畜。