Lay
[leɪ] or [le]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) put in a horizontal position; 'lay the books on the table'; 'lay the patient carefully onto the bed'.
(verb.) lay eggs; 'This hen doesn't lay'.
(verb.) prepare or position for action or operation; 'lay a fire'; 'lay the foundation for a new health care plan'.
(verb.) impose as a duty, burden, or punishment; 'lay a responsibility on someone'.
(adj.) not of or from a profession; 'a lay opinion as to the cause of the disease' .
伊妮德編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(imp.) of Lie, to recline.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the laity, as distinct from the clergy; as, a lay person; a lay preacher; a lay brother.
(a.) Not educated or cultivated; ignorant.
(a.) Not belonging to, or emanating from, a particular profession; unprofessional; as, a lay opinion regarding the nature of a disease.
(n.) The laity; the common people.
(n.) A meadow. See Lea.
(n.) Faith; creed; religious profession.
(n.) A law.
(n.) An obligation; a vow.
(a.) A song; a simple lyrical poem; a ballad.
(a.) A melody; any musical utterance.
(v. t.) To cause to lie down, to be prostrate, or to lie against something; to put or set down; to deposit; as, to lay a book on the table; to lay a body in the grave; a shower lays the dust.
(v. t.) To place in position; to establish firmly; to arrange with regularity; to dispose in ranks or tiers; as, to lay a corner stone; to lay bricks in a wall; to lay the covers on a table.
(v. t.) To prepare; to make ready; to contrive; to provide; as, to lay a snare, an ambush, or a plan.
(v. t.) To spread on a surface; as, to lay plaster or paint.
(v. t.) To cause to be still; to calm; to allay; to suppress; to exorcise, as an evil spirit.
(v. t.) To cause to lie dead or dying.
(v. t.) To deposit, as a wager; to stake; to risk.
(v. t.) To bring forth and deposit; as, to lay eggs.
(v. t.) To apply; to put.
(v. t.) To impose, as a burden, suffering, or punishment; to assess, as a tax; as, to lay a tax on land.
(v. t.) To impute; to charge; to allege.
(v. t.) To impose, as a command or a duty; as, to lay commands on one.
(v. t.) To present or offer; as, to lay an indictment in a particular county; to lay a scheme before one.
(v. t.) To state; to allege; as, to lay the venue.
(v. t.) To point; to aim; as, to lay a gun.
(v. t.) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them; as, to lay a cable or rope.
(v. t.) To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
(v. t.) To place (new type) properly in the cases.
(v. i.) To produce and deposit eggs.
(v. i.) To take a position; to come or go; as, to lay forward; to lay aloft.
(v. i.) To lay a wager; to bet.
(n.) That which lies or is laid or is conceived of as having been laid or placed in its position; a row; a stratum; a layer; as, a lay of stone or wood.
(v. t.) A wager.
(v. t.) A job, price, or profit.
(v. t.) A share of the proceeds or profits of an enterprise; as, when a man ships for a whaling voyage, he agrees for a certain lay.
(v. t.) A measure of yarn; a lea. See 1st Lea (a).
(v. t.) The lathe of a loom. See Lathe, 3.
(v. t.) A plan; a scheme.
(imp.) of Lie
校對:索尼亚
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Put, place, lay down.[2]. Impose, assess.[3]. Impute, charge, ascribe.[4]. Spread (on a surface).[5]. Prepare, set in order, get ready.[6]. Contrive, scheme, devise.[7]. Allay, quiet, calm, still, appease.[8]. Bet, stake, wager, risk, hazard.[9]. Produce, bring forth and deposit (as eggs).[10]. (Naut.) Depress, sink, sail away from so as to lose sight of.[11]. (Law.) Allege, state, name.
n. [Rare.] [1]. Row, stratum, layer.[2]. Bet, wager, stake, pledge.[3]. [U. S.] Share of profit.[4]. Song.
a. Laic, laical.
克拉拉錄入
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Place, establish, deposit, allay, prostrate, arrange, dispose, put, spread,set_down
ANT:Erect, raise, lift, excite, disarrange, disorder, scrape, abrade
杰夫編輯
解釋/意思:
n. a song: a lyric or narrative poem.
v.t. to cause to lie down: to place or set down: to beat down: to spread on a surface: to conjoin: to spread the proper thing on: to calm: to appease: to wager: to bring forth: to impose: to charge: to present.—v.i. to produce eggs: to wager bet:—pr.p. lay′ing; pa.t. and pa.p. laid.—n. situation: (Shak.) a bet: a share of profit esp. in whaling enterprises: (slang) a field or method of operations esp. of thieves: a measure in thread manufacture about 800 yards.—ns. Lay′er that which lays—e.g. a hen a bricklayer: a bed or stratum: a shoot laid for propagation; Lay′ering the propagation of plants by layers; Lay′ing the first coat of plaster: the act or time of laying eggs: the eggs laid; Lay′-out that which is laid out a spread for dining gaming &c.; Lay′-stall a place for laying dung rubbish &c.—Lay about one to deal blows vigorously or on all sides; Lay aside away to discard: to put apart for future use; Lay at to endeavour to strike; Lay bare to make bare disclose; Lay before to submit to as of plans; Lay by to keep for future use to dismiss to put off; Lay by the heels (see Heel); Lay down to give up: to deposit as a pledge: to apply as embroidery: to delineate describe: to affirm assert: (rare) to store for future use; Lay heads together to consult together to deliberate; Lay hold of or on to seize apprehend; Lay in to get in a supply of; Lay into to chastise thoroughly; Lay it on to charge exorbitantly to do anything with profuseness; Lay off to cast aside: to mark off; Lay on to apply with force to strike to act with vigour; Lay one's self out to to put forth one's best efforts for anything; Lay on load (Spens.) to belabour; Lay on the table (see Table); Lay open to make bare to show expose; Lay out to expand to display: to expend to plan to exert: to dress in grave-clothes: to take measures seek; Lay siege to to besiege: to importune; Lay the land to cause the land to disappear below the horizon by sailing away from it; Lay to to apply with vigour: to bring a ship to rest; Lay to heart (see Heart); Lay under to subject to; Lay up to store up preserve: to confine to one's bed or room for a time: to put a ship in dock after dismantling; Lay upon to wager upon; Lay wait to lie in wait or in ambush; Lay waste to devastate to destroy.—Laying on of hands (see Hand).—Laid embroidery gimped or raised embroidery.—On a lay on shares as when a crew is shipped 'on a lay' instead of receiving wages.
adjs. pertaining to the people: not clerical: unprofessional: (cards) not trumps.—v.t. Lā′icise to deprive of a clerical character.—ns. Lā′ity the people as distinguished from any particular profession esp. the clerical; Lay′-bap′tism baptism administered by a layman; Lay′-broth′er a layman: a man under vows of celibacy and obedience who serves a monastery but is exempt from the studies and religious services required of the monks; Lay′-commun′ion the state of being in the communion of the church as a layman; Lay′-imprō′priator an impropriator who is a layman (see Impropriator); Lay′-lord a civil lord of the Admiralty; Lay′man one of the laity: a non-professional man; Lay′-read′er in the Anglican Church a layman who receives authority to read the lessons or a part of the service and who may in certain cases preach or read the sermons of others.
校對:玛吉
例句/造句/用法:
- Miss Kate took out her sketch again, and Margaret watched her, while Mr. Brooke lay on the grass with a book, which he did not read. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Their headquarters lay in the southwest corner of this district, near the crossing of two of the so-called Martian canals. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- She brought him some milk, and he drank of it gratefully and lay down again, to forget in pleasant dreams his lost battle and his humbled pride. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Laurie obediently threw himself down on the turf, and began to amuse himself by sticking daisies into the ribbons of Amy's hat, that lay there. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- After this strange speech, she lay silent for some time. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- His old dog, Pilot, lay on one side, removed out of the way, and coiled up as if afraid of being inadvertently trodden upon. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Sewed into my gown,' with her hand upon her breast, 'is just enough to lay me in the grave. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- And the bulk of your fortune would be laid out in annuities on the authors or their heirs. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- I thought you were going to spend the whole autumn with us, and I've hardly laid eyes on you for the last month. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- He unfolded a paper and laid it upon the table. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- At the thought he laid down his knife and fork again, and a flush of anxiety rose to his finely-wrinkled cheek. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- He rummaged in his coat pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted paper, he laid it out upon the table. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- I laid down Marian's letter, and felt myself--justly felt myself--an injured man. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Stephenson laid down new rails at Killingworth with half-lap joints, or extending over each other for a certain distance at the ends, instead of the butt joints that were formerly used. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The manifest advantage of an even track for the wheels long ago suggested the idea of laying down wood and other hard, smooth surfaces for carriages to run upon. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- In a moment, laying his finger on his lips, he made a silent gesture to Miss Ophelia to come and look. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Then suppose you try, ma'am,' said Bounderby, laying an envelope with a cheque in it in her little basket. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Suppose that lad that's laying there--' Fagin began. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- God forgive me, Mr. Sedley, but you are no better than a coward, Mrs. O'Dowd said, laying down the book. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Thus for ten days Little Dorrit bent over his pillow, laying her cheek against his. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind, said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- The old lady sorrowfully shakes her head, and taking one of his powerful hands, lays it lovingly upon her shoulder. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- He is greatly irritated by the irony of Socrates, but his noisy and imbecile rage only lays him more and more open to the thrusts of his assailant. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Present-day reform lays a great emphasis upon instruments and very little on the skilful use of them. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Only when a person lays in victuals for tea, a person does it with a view--perhaps--more to time. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- She certainly lays herself out to please, even when she is calling on an old lady. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- My mother glances submissively at them, shuts the book, and lays it by as an arrear to be worked out when my other tasks are done. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Ay, answered Isaac, but if the tyrant lays hold on them as he did to-day, and compels me to smile while he is robbing me? 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
編輯:汤姆