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When you do something lawfully, the law says you may do it — you are not breaking a rule of the land. A person can live in a country lawfully (the papers are in order), marry lawfully, or search a house lawfully (the police have the right).
When you do something lawfully當你lawfully做某件事的時候 the law says you may do it法律說你可以這麼做 you are not breaking a rule of the land你並沒有違反國家的法規 A person can live in a country lawfully一個人可以lawfully住在一個國家 (the papers are in order)（文件齊全、合法） marry lawfully可以lawfully結婚 or search a house lawfully或lawfully搜查一間房子 (the police have the right)（警察有這個權力）
News, courts, and forms like this word; at the dinner table people more often say legally, or just “it’s allowed.” The two are very close. Though actually, lawfully leans a little toward “the law itself says yes,” and it likes verbs like live, enter, marry, get, and act.
News, courts, and forms like this word新聞、法院、表格都喜歡用這個字 at the dinner table people more often say legally, or just "it's allowed."日常聊天比較常說legally或直接說「it's allowed」（可以這樣做） The two are very close這兩種說法意思很接近 Though actually不過其實 lawfully leans a little toward "the law itself says yes,"lawfully比較偏向「法律本身就說可以」這種語感 and it likes verbs like live, enter, marry, get, and act而且常搭配live、enter、marry、get、act這些動詞
You also hear it in front of a noun: a lawfully chosen leader, a lawfully owned gun. It is calm and a bit formal — not a fighting word, and not slang.
You also hear it in front of a noun你也會聽到它放在名詞前面 a lawfully chosen leader, a lawfully owned gun像a lawfully chosen leader（合法選出的領袖）、a lawfully owned gun（合法擁有的槍） It is calm and a bit formal這個字語氣平和、有點正式 not a fighting word, and not slang不是用來吵架的字，也不是俚語
The opposite is .
The opposite is unlawfully它的反義字是unlawfully
組成lawful (allowed by the law) + -ly (in that way). From Middle English lawefully, lawfulliche, lawefulliche.
同家族的字
- lawfulthe adjective this adverb is built from
- unlawfullythe opposite adverb: in a way the law does not allow
- lawfulnessthe noun for the quality of being allowed by 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。
lawfullyadv
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Conforming to the law; legally.
- This grand ceremony was immediately followed by a proclamation expreſsly forbidding the Abyſſine clergy, monks, and prieſts, to perform any prieſtly functions till they were previouſly examined and approved by the patriarch ; there being ſome reaſon to doubt whether they had been lawfully examined.
- He was sent to Guantánamo in 2002, and Judge Kollar-Kotelly found that from the beginning of his stay, “there is no evidence in the record that anyone directed any allegations toward al-Rabiah nor any indication that interrogators believed al-Rabiah had engaged in any conduct that made him lawfully detainable.”
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。