law-abiding

adjective
🔊/ˈlɔː əbaɪdɪŋ/
🔊/ˈlɔː əbaɪdɪŋ/
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  1. obeying and respecting the law遵纪守法的;安分守己的
    • The police have been preventing ordinary law-abiding citizens from going about their own business.警方一直在妨碍普通守法公民过正常生活。
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    • Law-abiding soccer fans are getting increasingly annoyed with the troublemakers.守法足球迷越来越被麻烦制造者所烦恼。
    • This new ruling could criminalize millions of law-abiding people.这项新裁决可能会将数百万守法的人定为犯罪。
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryLaw-abiding is used with these nouns:
    • citizen
    • folk
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