| 词汇 | illegal |
| 释义 | illegal adjective uk /ɪˈliː.ɡəl/ us /ɪˈliː.ɡəl/ B2 not allowed by law: 法律禁止的；违法的 a campaign to stop the illegal sale of cigarettes to children under 16禁止向16岁以下儿童非法销售香烟的运动 Prostitution is illegal in some countries.卖淫在有些国家是不合法的。 it is illegal toIt is illegal to drive a car that is not registered and insured.驾驶未注册、未上保险的汽车是违法的。 illegal drug/substanceCocaine, LSD, and heroin are all illegal drugs/substances.可卡因、迷幻药和海洛因都是非法毒品。 Synonym illicit Opposites lawfulformal legal licitformal to forbid someone or something forbidHe grew up in a strict household where dating was forbidden. disallowUpon review, the goal was disallowed. banThe government has banned the sale of lead-based paint. prohibitVehicles are prohibited from parking on the grass. not allowed by the rules of a sport: There were two illegal passes in the first 13 minutes of the game, and several more followed. The team received two warnings for illegal play. His tackle was illegal, and his sending-off changed the course of the game. It is illegal to do a U-turn on a motorway. The proposed change in the law would make abortion illegal except for strictly defined medical reasons.对该法拟议中的修改将把堕胎列为非法行为，只有经严格界定属医学需要者除外。 It's illegal to discriminate against people on the basis of their sex.性别歧视是违法的。 For a teacher to hit a child is not just morally wrong but also illegal.教师打孩子不仅在道德上是错误的，而且也是违法的。 Several athletes tested positive for illegal performance-enhancing drugs. The referee missed the illegal shot and continued the count. Illegal blocks include the use of any part of the arm below the elbow, which results in a penalty. Legal & illegal bang to rightsidiom bootleg chargeable concealed carryidiom controverted election criminally illegality improper legality legitimately licensed licit licitly non-criminal shady treasonable unlawful unsanctioned validity validly Related wordillegally illegal noun[ C ] offensiveuk /ɪˈliː.ɡəl/ us /ɪˈliː.ɡəl/ an offensive word for someone who lives or works in another country when they do not have the legal right to do this: 非法（在其他国家生活或工作）居民 He said ID cards would make it easier to deport illegals.他说发放身份证会使驱逐非法居民变得容易一些。 Synonym illegal immigrant People who live or settle somewhere asylum seeker boarder brain drain city slicker co-resident frontiersman Georgian guest worker habitant illegal alien lodger occupier Orcadian outflow overspill repeople troglodyte villager welcome wagon year-rounder illegal | American Dictionaryillegal adjective us/ɪˈli·ɡəl/ against the law: Fireworks are illegal in many places. illegal immigrant/alien An illegal immigrant/alien is a person who has entered a country without government permission. illegallyadverbus/ɪˈli·ɡə·li/ illegally obtained passports illegal | Business Englishillegal adjective uk /ɪˈliːɡəl/us LAW not allowed by law: According to state law, smoking is illegal in all public buildings. illegal (for sb) to do sthIt is illegal for a company to force an employee into early retirement. make sth illegalThe new law will make it illegal to record phone conversations without consent. illegal sales/profits/trades Compare legal IT used to describe a character (= letter, number, or symbol) that you cannot use in a particular place on a computer, because it may create problems: The colon is the only illegal character for file and folder names. illegallyadverb Approximately 500,000 workers enter the country illegally each year. Examples of illegalillegal It is possible that most of them are engaged in illegal felling of trees. Do you believe that euthanasia has been performed in our country secretly, although it is illegal? At the same time more attention needs to be directed to the policing of sandalwood theft and tougher sanctions against illegal trading activities. Throughout its existence it distributed illegal publications so as to keep the population abreast of developments and sustain morale. Fearing they will never have another chance to visit, some overstay these visas, become ' illegal ' and risk expulsion. The illegal transport of flocks is common along this borderline. Most importantly, now all information of all employees is available, directly and online, the fraud fighting (illegal workers and premium evasion) can be done effectively. He called at the property unannounced and sent letters making demands before he owned the property, which is illegal. Directors who were either absent at the meeting authorizing an illegal dividend, or that voted on the record against it, were exempt from liability. And yet the risk for corruption or illegal decisions is higher in the new decentralized system than previously. And there already are some data suggesting that current seat-of-the-pants strategies for managing illegal residents are more costly than standard but unreimbursed treatment would be. In the parallel illegal system, money was exchanged for public contracts. Motivated by the need for more settlers, they turned a blind eye to fugitives' illegal status and permitted them to settle. It argues that distinct categories such as global/local, legal/illegal and traditional/ modern have lost much of their explanatory power. Headmen harboured them; village watchmen shared their illegal spoil. See all examples of illegal These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. 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