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Think of into a courtroom where only one question counts: what does the law say? Everything else — how it feels, what people assume, what happens in daily life — is left outside the door. 'Legally' marks that switch of viewpoint. From there it does two jobs: naming how the law sees a situation, and saying whether the law lets you do something.
可以想成：走進一個只認一種標準的房間——法律怎麼算。感覺上怎樣、大家習慣怎麼看、生活裡實際怎麼運作，全都留在門外。l…更多收起
可以想成：走進一個只認一種標準的房間——法律怎麼算。感覺上怎樣、大家習慣怎麼看、生活裡實際怎麼運作，全都留在門外。legally 就是在切換到這個視角。切進去之後它做兩件事：一是講「在法律眼中這件事算什麼」，二是講「法律准不准你這樣做」。原始詞典資料2 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。
legallyadv/ˈliːɡəli/
- 1
As permitted by law; not contrary to law.
- You can legally park in the lot on weekends without paying the fee, they won't ticket you.
- On the question of whether a memorandum of understanding is legally binding, British courts have held that this is determined by the presence (or, as the case may be, absence) of an intention to create a legal obligation, on the part of the states parties concerned, at the time of entry into the arrangement.
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From a legal perspective.
- Legally, I think you are covered, but there are angry guys with baseball bats outside.
- After filing paperwork to change his name, the rapper, born Kanye Omari West, finally got what he asked for, and will be legally known as “Ye.”
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。