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Used of a person, or sometimes a whole community, who respects the law and follows it. A law-abiding citizen is the ordinary, well-behaved person that newspapers set against criminals. It is a slightly formal, phrase — politicians and news reports love it. You do not usually say it about one single action (“that was law-abiding”); you say it about someone’s character or way of living. Though actually, nobody is perfectly law-abiding in every tiny rule, but the word still paints someone as decent and not a trouble-maker.
守法的
組成law + abiding. Abiding here means “staying with” or “keeping to,” from the verb abide (as in abide by the law).
同家族的字
- lawthe rules a country makes
- abidethe verb in abide by; abiding here means keeping to
- lawfulsame law: allowed by law
- law-breakerthe opposite kind of person: someone who breaks the law
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
law-abidingadj
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Obeying the laws of society; not a lawbreaker; without a criminal record.
- The law-abiding citizens have nothing to fear from government surveillance... unless the government begins to break the law.
- Most people take the imprint "Not Transferable" for granted when buying railway tickets, and are sufficiently law-abiding not to think of transferring a return half to a relation or friend.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。