1620s, from French illégal or directly from Medieval Latin illegalis, from assimilated form of in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + Latin legalis (see legal). Term illegal immigrant first recorded 1892 in American English (illegal immigration is from 1887).
例文
1. By-laws are to make it illegal to smoke in public.
地方法規は、公共の場でタバコを吸うことを違法と規定している。
2.Discrimination by employers on the grounds of race and nationality was illegal .
雇用主が人種や国籍を理由に従業員を差別するのは違法である。
3.He repeated that he had never knowingly taken illegal drugs.
彼は故意に麻薬を吸ったことがないことを何度も強調した。
4.Despite his illegal act,few people think badly of him.
違法なことをしているにもかかわらず、彼が悪いと思う人は少ない。
5.He surmised that he had discovered one of the illegal streets.