law

英 [lɔː] 美[lɔ]

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复数: laws;

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。

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.

2. 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。

3. 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。

4. 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。

5. 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。