lay
美 [leɪ]
英 [leɪ] 
- adj.外行的;非专业的;缺少专门知识的;平信徒的
- v.(尤指轻轻地或小心地)放置;铺设(尤指在地板上);涂;用一层…覆盖
- n.性伙伴;(尤指)性交的女人;(供吟唱的)叙事诗
- 网络张艺兴;下蛋;产卵
词形变化
第三人称单数:lays 现在分词:laying 过去式:laid 反义词
同义词
英汉双解
放下;展开put down/spread
1. | [t] (尤指轻轻地或小心地)放置,安放,搁to put sb/sth in a particular position, especially when it is done gently or carefully |
| She laid the baby down gently on the bed. 她把婴儿轻轻地放在床上。 |
| He laid a hand on my arm. 他把手搭在我的胳膊上。 |
| The horse laid back its ears. 那匹马把耳朵往后竖着。 |
| Relatives laid wreaths on the grave. 死者亲属在墓前献了花圈。 |
| The cloth should be laid flat. 布应展开平放。 |
2. | [t] ~ sth (down) 铺,铺放,铺设(尤指在地板上)to put sth down, especially on the floor, ready to be used |
| to lay a carpet/cable/pipe 铺地毯;铺设电缆;铺管道 |
| The foundations of the house are being laid today. 今天正在给房子打地基。 |
| They had laid the groundwork for future development. 他们为此后的发展奠定了基础。 |
3. | [t] (在某物上)摊开,涂,敷;用一层…覆盖to spread sth on sth; to cover sth with a layer of sth |
| Before they started they laid newspaper on the floor. 他们开始前在地板上铺了报纸。 |
| The grapes were laid to dry on racks. 葡萄被摊放在架子上晾干。 |
| The floor was laid with newspaper. 地板上铺了报纸。 |
卵eggs
4. | [t][i] ~ (sth) (鸟、昆虫、鱼等)下(蛋),产(卵)if a bird, an insect, a fish, etc.lays eggs, it produces them from its body |
| The cuckoo lays its eggs in other birds' nests. 杜鹃在其他鸟的巢中下蛋。 |
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| The hens are not laying well(= not producing many eggs) . 母鸡现在不爱下蛋。 |
桌子table
5. | [t] ~ sth 摆放餐具于(准备就餐)to arrange knives, forks, plates, etc. on a table ready for a meal |
提出建议present proposal
6. | [t] ~ sth + adv./prep. 提出,提交(建议、信息等)to present a proposal, some information, etc. to sb for them to think about and decide on |
| The bill was laid before Parliament. 议案已提交议会审议。 |
困境difficult situation
7. | [t] ~ sth + adv./prep. 使处于特定状态(尤指困境)to put sb/sth in a particular position or state, especially a difficult or unpleasant one |
| to lay a responsibility/burden on sb 把责任╱重担加于某人身上 |
| to lay sb under an obligation to do sth 使某人承担做某事的义务 |
与名词连用with nouns
8. | [t] ~ sth + adv./prep. (与名词连用构成短语,其含义与该名词的相关动词相同)used with a noun to form a phrase that has the same meaning as the verb related to the noun |
| to lay the blame on sb(= to blame sb) 归咎于某人 |
| Our teacher lays great stress on good spelling(= stresses it strongly) . 我们老师着力强调要拼写正确。 |
计划;圈套plan/trap
9. | [t] ~ sth 周密准备;筹划;设置to prepare sth in detail |
| to lay a trap for sb 给某人设下圈套 |
| She began to lay her plans for her escape. 她开始周密策划准备逃走。 |
| Bad weather can upset even the best-laid plans. 天气不好,再好的计划也会打乱。 |
性交have sex
10. | [t][oftpass] ~ sb 与(某人)性交to have sex with sb |
| He went out hoping to get laid that night. 他那天晚上外出希望找个女人睡一宿。 |
火fire
11. | [t] ~ sth (摆好木、柴或煤)生火to prepare a fire by arranging wood, sticks or coal |
打赌bet
12. | [t] 对…下赌金;下赌注to bet money on sth; to place a bet |
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| She had laid $100 on the favourite. 她在那匹夺标呼声最高的马上下注 100 元。 |
| I'll lay you any money you like (that) he won't come. 我看他不来了,你愿意赌多少钱我都奉陪。 |
1. | 外行的;非专业的;缺少专门知识的not having expert knowledge or professional qualifications in a particular subject |
| His book explains the theory for the lay public. 他的书为普通大众阐明了这个理论。 |
2. | 平信徒的;在俗的not in an official position in the Church |
1. |
性伙伴;(尤指)性交的女人a partner in sex, especially a woman |
| an easy lay(= a person who is ready and willing to have sex) 淫妇 |
| to be a great lay 为荒淫无度的荡妇 |
2. | (供吟唱的)叙事诗a poem that was written to be sung, usually telling a story |
习惯用语
the lay of the land
地貌;地势;地形the way the land in an area is formed and what physical characteristics it has
目前的形势及发展趋势the way a situation is now and how it is likely to develop
英汉解释
v. | 1. 放下;铺;敷;产卵;摆放(餐具);提出;筹划;打赌 |
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n. | |
英英解释
例句
The child lay panting on her pillows, as one exhausted, -- the large clear eyes rolled up and fixed.
小姑娘躺在枕头上喘着气,好像一个精疲力竭的人,清澈透明的大眼睛向上翻着,一动不动。
It was autumn, and the wind was sad; and the golden elm leaves lay scattered about among the grass, and on the gravel path.
入秋了,风凄冷地吹着,金黄色的榆叶飘零而落,散落在草地间,洒落在砾石小径上。
and a little long hollow place I cut in the in-side of the boat, where I could lay gun, making a flap to hang down over it to keep it dry.
另外,我又在船舷内挖了一条长长的槽,用来放枪,还做了块垂板可盖住长槽,以防枪支受潮。
She was helping Professor Dai lay the table, and, when she looked over, the older woman paired the chopsticks without meeting her eyes.
思玉帮母亲摆放碗筷,她抬起头来的时候,老太太正在给筷子配对,避开了她的眼睛。
Let me lay things out for you ; our price was higher than our competitor's , so we lost the business .
让我把话跟你说清楚,我们的价钱比竞争者高,所以才失去那笔生意。
Among them lay collar and tie, as if they had just been removed, which, lifted, left upon the surface a pale crescent in the dust.
杂物中有一条硬领和领带,仿佛刚从身上取下来似的,把它们拿起来时,在台面上堆积的尘埃中留下淡淡的月牙痕。
He lay on his back, his hands behind his head.
他仰卧着,双手扣着后脑勺。
It took me an hour to place my whole head within the opening so far that I could see him as he lay upon his bed.
我花了一个小时,地点在我的整个头部,开远,我能看见他,因为他在他的床上躺下。
Then the container is ready to lay eggs, which are often used in shallow dish filled with water.
然后准备好产卵容器,常选用浅盘子里面盛满水。
But lay there; don't throw an arm or leg over the top of him.
但你只是躺在那里;不要把胳膊和或脚丫伸到他身上。
and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.
到了一个地方,因为太阳落了,就在那里住宿,便拾起那地方的一块石头枕在头下,在那里躺卧睡了。
One duy, as he lay thinking, he saw a spider over his head, making ready to weave her web .
一天,正当他躺着思索的时候,看见一只蜘蛛在他头上,准备织网。
Romance lay not in the original cultural of Tibet but rather in the heroic nature of the missionary struggle in an exotic environment.
传教士的浪漫传奇并不在于藏文化本身,而在传教士们在一个陌生环境下艰苦卓绝的英勇斗争。
After passing through numerous, Alice suddenly wake up, realize that they lay on the grass asleep, all adventures are nothing but a dream.
历尽艰险之后,爱丽丝猛然苏醒,原来自己躺在草地上睡着了,一切奇遇都不过是梦幻而已。
As if they had no policy at all in human resources, only lay-off talks rolling on all the time.
好像他们在人力资源方面没有任何政策,只会一直开裁员动员会。
I wanna stand with you on a mountain. I wanna bathe with you in the sea. I wanna lay like this forever. Until the sky falls down on me.
我要与你相拥在山的巅峰我要和你徜徉在海的怀抱我要你就这样永远依偎在我的身旁直到海枯石烂直到地老天荒。
The next morning he lay upon his bed and watched the woman who was now wholly his own.
第二天早晨,他躺在床上,看着现在已经完全属于自己的这个女人。
He lay still for a long time. Later, he felt a little better and got up. He made afire.
他静卧了很长时间,等到感觉稍微好一点儿才站起来,生起一堆火。
Lay down on your tummy, rest your forehead on folded arms, close your eyes and follow your breath.
向下趴着,前额放在交叉的胳膊上,闭上眼并且放慢呼吸。
techniques you can use the moment you read about them. I lay it all out for you in a step-by-step.
而且当你读到的时候,这些技术你就可以使用它们了。我把他们一步一步的展示出来。
Such considerations as these incline me to lay less weight on the direct action of the surrounding conditions.
这些事实使我觉得周围条件的直接作用不甚重要。
For the space of half a year, the gunpowder lay as harmless as sand.
在半年的时间里,这火药象沙土一样放在那里没有出毛病。
He got up and helped her to lay another place at the table.
他站起身来,帮她在桌子上又摆了一份餐具。
He lay in the bed and wondered, whilst his friend sat beside him, lost in brooding. Each man was gone in his own thoughts.
他躺在床上思索着,他的朋友坐在一旁冥想着,两人都陷入了遐想之中。
The theater house with its white and gold, relieved by soft green tones, lay only half disclosed to view.
剧场的面貌,和一片柔绿的气氛所烘托出来的黄白色建筑花饰,只能隐约地看清楚一半。
As I had no friend in the world to communicate my distressed thoughts to, it lay so heavy upon me.
因为在世界上我没有朋友可以对他诉说我这苦闷的心情,这种苦闷沉重地压着我。
There was a table and a huge book lay thereon.
那里有一张桌子,在那上面有一本很大的书。
He lay in the stern and steered and watched for the glow to come in the sky.
他躺在船梢,一面掌舵,一面留意着天边红光的出现。
Ralph moved the lenses back and forth, this way and that, a glossy white image of the declining sun lay on a piece of rotten wood.
拉尔夫把眼镜片前前后后,上下左右地移来移去,夕阳的一道亮闪闪的白光落到一块烂木头上。
The ship lay at anchor two miles off the rocky coast.
船在离岩岸两英里处抛锚停泊。
One fellow as he went by actually clapped his hand upon the sunny face of the rock on which we lay.
有一个家伙走过我们的旁边,用手在我们躺着的那块岩石的向阳面摸了一下。
Very quickly Jack stepped to the side of the road, lay down in the ditch, and began to look very intently up into the sky.
杰克很快走到路边儿,躺在沟里,聚精会神地朝天上看。
And she lay, with her eyes just moving, following in her mind that little scuttling sound, and waiting for sleep to release her from it.
于是她躺在那里,眼睛微微动着,脑子里留心着那个轻微的籁簌声,等待睡眠来将她救走。
Before I left Long Island I saw that she was beginning to lay her toils for Mattie.
我离开长岛前就发觉她已开始对玛迪摆下迷魂阵了。
The doctor told me to lay off for a week.
医生要我休息一个星期。
But I shall lay his death at the door, as long as I live, and die I know he will.
但我会把他死这笔帐全得算在你头上,只要我活着;我知道他一定会送命的。
Then she ate the little food she had brought with her, and lay down on the floor and went to sleep.
她吃完随身带的一点食物,便躺在地上睡了。
After the bank robbery they lay up in a basement for 2 weeks.
抢劫银行以后他们在一间地下室躲了两星期。
I lifted myself on my elbow and looked at my dollar watch, which lay on the chair at the bedside.
我拉着胳膊起身看了看放在床边椅子上的廉价手表。
Her grandfather lay sleeping safely at her side, and the crime to which his madness urged him, was not committed. That was her comfort.
她的外祖父平安地睡在她身旁,他的疯狂并未导致犯罪。这便是她引以为慰的。
I wish to lay the matter before you.
我愿把这事向你陈述。
He pointed to a large perfect pearl the size of a small walnut that lay apart on a piece of chamois.
他指着一颗单独放在一块鹿皮上的大珠子,这珠子晶莹无瑕,有颗小核桃大小。
The wind was blowing hard, and the ship was forced to lay to.
风刮得正紧,船被迫顶风停驶。
The civil engineering contractor may need to lay out his own casting yard.
土木工程承包者可能需要设置自己的预制场。
Every here and there, for a few hundred yards, the path lay submerged below the stagnant waters of the fen.
每隔一段,就有几百码路面淹在沼泽的死水里。
A little farther off, another man lay slumbering, rolled in a brown cloak, with a butterfly hovering above his face.
离这儿不远,又有一个男人躺在那儿,裹着一领棕色的斗篷睡觉,还有一只蝴蝶在脸上飞舞呢。
He lay there on the sand, his body stiff and aching, trying to remember where he was.
他躺在沙子上,身体僵硬疼痛,竭力要想起自己是在什么地方。
I let them know, that by my direction the ship had been seized, that she lay now in the road.
我让他们知道,在我的指挥下,大船已经夺了回来,现在停泊在海口里。
If this is a novel without a hero, at least let us lay claim to a heroine.
如果这小说里的男人没有一个出类拔萃,女人里头至少有一个了不起的人物。
If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms!
倘如我是北美人,正如我现在为英国人一样,当外国军队侵入我国国境,我绝对不会放下武器。
It did not perceive that it also lay in that hand which had removed Napoleon.
它没有看出它是被捏在搬走拿破仑的那同一只手里。
Indeed, the bottom of the thing lay at my heart, and that made all his endeavours fruitless.
真的,根本的原因是在我心里,他的一切努力全然无效。
with which I would light the flame of life in the dead thing that lay at my feet.
并利用这些工具把生命的火花注入躺在我的脚边的这个死的东西里。
He carefully counted the coins that lay on the bed. $24. 52 was all that he had. The bicycle he wanted was at least $90!
他仔细的数着散落的床上的硬币,他一共有24.52美元,这是他的全部财产。
I expect, however, that fully grown females that are well fed might be able to lay up to 20 eggs.
我期望,但认为完全成熟的女性,都是衣食足可奠定多达20个卵。
I reconciled myself to not knowing the truth, and I thought that was the end of the story until my mother lay on her deathbed.
我宁愿自己不知道这个真相,我本想这件事应该就此结束了,直到我母亲躺在病榻上奄奄一息。
Bedell lay down in an old box filled with hay, his rifle and crutches beside him.
比德尔躺在一个装满干草的旧木箱内,将他的步枪和拐杖放在身边。
Japan, the great exporter, protected its domestic industries. At the heart of the country's economic problems lay a contradiction.
最大的出口国——日本——对国内工业实施保护政策。在此国家的经济问题的中心存在着一个矛盾。
They lay on their faces as if paralyzed, exactly as I had lain a few minutes before now.
他们面伏于地,彷佛瘫痪一般,完全和我数分钟前的姿势一样。
Sleep deprivation gave a little bit of money, but that wasn't why she lay there awake at night.
不睡觉也可以得到一点钱,但是这并不是她晚上躺在那不睡觉的原因。
But I shall lay his death at the door, as long as I live, and die I know he will.
但我会把他死这笔帐全得算在你头上,只要我活着;我知道他一定会送命的。
I rose to help him, he lay in my ears says mumblingly, Mimi, lend me a few days, accompany me around your city.
我起身去扶他,他俯在我耳边喃喃地说,米米,借给我几天时间,陪我逛逛你的城市。
The fancy came to me that the old priest was smiling as he lay there in his coffin.
我忽发奇想,好象躺在棺木里的老教士微笑了。
This is because web applications are relatively easy to attack, as they are simple to understand and manipulate, even by the lay person.
这是因为web应用容易攻击,因为它们易于理解和操作,甚至是懒人。
It is still likely to lay-off thousands of workers but probably far fewer than Fiat would have done if it had won the bidding.
现在仍有可能几千失业人员但可能比菲亚特公司较少工人已经获得工作,如果Magna已经中标。
We need to lay up a good supply of feed if this winter's going to be like the last.
如果今冬还像去年冬天那样,我们必须多贮备一些饲料。
But one thing is for certain, he did not take it to make him lay the kind of football with which he has bewitched the world for a decade.
可有一点是肯定的,他不会将此药物用在他那十年来使世人痴迷的足球上面。
But he did not lay out a timescale for his plan.
但是对于无核化进程他却没有一个明确的计划表。
How much did you have to lay out for your new car?
你这辆新车花了多少钱?
He lay down in the ditch and plugged the wound with another piece of wadding from his jacket.
他放下在壕沟堵住了伤口与另一块吐絮从他夹克。
The meadows lay like a white sea, out of which the scattered trees rose like dangerous rocks.
那一片草原就好象白茫茫的大海,里面露出的那些零落稀疏的树木,就好象危险的礁石。
We lay and watched him and I do not think he saw us because we lay so still.
我们躺着看他,他大概没看见我们,因为我们静悄悄地躺着。
She knew the truth and the real danger of delay-he knew neither; therein lay all the difference in the world.
她知道事情的真相和旷日持久的真正危险-他两者都不知道;这就有天渊之别。
It's my fault, but there's not a horse about the place that don't lay his ears back when I got on him.
这原是我自己的不足,这儿没有一匹马,我一骑上去,不把耳朵倒垂下来的。
His yellow rags of shirt lay open at the throat and showed his body to be withered and worn.
从他的黄色衬衣里露出了他的喉结,显示他的身体已经干瘪而且衰朽。
So I lay and watched the stars come out by thousands, till all the immense arch of heaven was strewn with glittering points.
我只好躺下,仰望天空的万点繁星,直到整个浩瀚的苍穹都布满了灿烂的光点。
A fine view of the valley lay before the tourists.
山谷的优美景色展现在游客面前。
Suddenly word reached higher OKM circles that an agent had reported that the Queen Elizabeth lay in Gibraltar.
海军司令部的上级突然听说有一个特务报告《伊丽莎白女王》号停泊在直布罗陀。
She lay back in the darkness, feeling deserted.
她在黑暗中躺着,感到被遗弃似的。
Bigger looked about and saw the pile of white bones lying atop a table; beside them lay the kidnap note, held in place by a bottle of ink.
别格举目四望,看见一张桌子上面放着一堆白骨;骨头旁边放着那封绑票信,用只墨水瓶压着。