lap
v. 拍打; 舔(食); 领先一圈(或数圈)
n. (坐着时的)大腿部; (跑道等的)一圈; (行程或工作中的)一段
If you have something on your lap when you are sitting down, it is on top of your legs and near to your body.
She waited quietly with her hands in her lap...
她双手放在腿上静静等候。
Hugh glanced at the child on her mother's lap.
休瞥了一眼坐在她妈妈膝上的小女孩。
In a race, a competitor completes a lap when they have gone round a course once.
...that last lap of the race...
比赛最后一圈
On lap two, Baker edged forward.
第二圈时,贝克悄然赶了上去。
In a race, if you lap another competitor, you go past them while they are still on the previous lap.
He was caught out while lapping a slower rider.
他在套圈超越一位落后的车手时出了错。
A lap of a long journey is one part of it, between two points where you stop.
I had thought we might travel as far as Oak Valley, but we only managed the first lap of the journey.
我原以为我们最远能到达橡树谷,结果只走完了第一段路程。
When water laps against something such as the shore or the side of a boat, it touches it gently and makes a soft sound.
...the water that lapped against the pillars of the boathouse...
轻拍着船屋支柱的海水
With a rising tide the water was lapping at his chin before rescuers arrived...
救援人员到达时上涨的潮水已经淹到了他的下巴。
When an animal laps a drink, it uses short quick movements of its tongue to take liquid up into its mouth.
The cat lapped milk from a dish.
猫舔食盘中牛奶。
If you say that a situation is in the lap of the gods, you mean that its success or failure depends entirely on luck or on things that are outside your control.
They had to stop the operation, so at that stage my life was in the lap of the gods.
他们不得不停止手术,所以那时的我只能听天由命。
If you say that someone lives in the lap of luxury, you mean that they live in conditions of great comfort and wealth.
We don't live in the lap of luxury, but we're comfortable.
我们的生活虽然并非锦衣玉食,也算是衣食无忧。
1. the upper side of the thighs of a seated person;
2. an area of control or responsibility;
3. the part of a piece of clothing that covers the thighs;
4. a flap that lies over another part;
5. movement once around a course;
6. touching with the tongue;
1. lie partly over or alongside of something or of one another
2. pass the tongue over;
3. move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound;
4. take up with the tongue;
5. wash or flow against;
lap up
急切地或热切地接受
fall (或 drop) into someone's lap
(好事)轻而易举得到,得来全不费功夫
in someone's lap
作为某人的责任
in the lap of the gods
(计划或事件的成败)听天由命
in the lap of luxury
在养尊处优的环境中
the lap of luxury
奢华:极度富裕或舒适物质生活的状态
The two pictures are made to lap over each other.
两幅照片是搭接在一起的.
She clenched her hands in her lap to hide their trembling.
她攥紧双手放在腿上,以掩饰其颤抖.
She is still going strong on the last lap.
她在跑最后一圈时仍然劲头很足.
My legs failed me and I wasn't able to run the last lap.
我这腿不争气,最后一圈跑不动了.
You don't drop the accident in my lap.
不要把这起事故往我身上推.