- 1合法地；依法
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). 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. 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. The opposite is .
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，摘錄並精簡格式，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
- 1
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.”
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