听一分钟英文：Laws-法律

 Without laws the world would end. OK, maybe the actual Earth might not end, but life as we know it would end. We’d all end up fighting and killing¹ each other. It would become the survival² of the strongest, or perhaps the survival of the nastiest³. If there were no laws, people could do anything. There’d be no police or courts to keep control. Law is very important. It keeps order in our society. Our laws started thousands of years ago. Many of today’s laws were made centuries ago. New laws need to be made every day. Especially in today’s world, where the Internet is so important. It’s very difficult to keep laws up to date with new developments. The latest area of law is intellectual property. It’s important that people’s ideas are protected.

1 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

2 survival   

n.留住生命，生存，残存，幸存者

参考例句：

• The doctor told my wife I had a fifty-fifty chance of survival.医生告诉我的妻子，说我活下去的可能性只有50%。
• The old man was a survival of a past age.这位老人是上一代的遗老。

3 nastiest   

adj.下流的( nasty的最高级 )；严重的；恶意的；令人讨厌的

参考例句：

• This'll get you acclimated to even the nastiest of climates. 这会让你完全适应最炎热的气候。 来自互联网
• Man to my mind is about the nastiest, most destructive of all the animals. 在我看来人类是所有动物里最卑鄙最具破坏性的。 来自互联网