law-a·bid·ing
adjective/ˈlɔː əbaɪdɪŋ/
/ˈlɔː əbaɪdɪŋ/
- 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。
Extra Examples- Law-abiding soccer fans are getting increasingly annoyed with the troublemakers.
守法的球迷对麻烦制造者越来越恼火。 - This new ruling could criminalize millions of law-abiding people.
这项新裁决可能会将数百万守法者定为犯罪。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryLaw-abiding is used with these nouns:- citizen
- folk
- The police have been preventing ordinary law-abiding citizens from going about their own business.