lapping
n. 搭接,搭疊,重疊; 成卷; 鋪網
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...
她雙手放在腿上靜靜等候。
Hugh glanced at the child on her mother's lap.
休瞥了一眼坐在她媽媽膝上的小女孩。
In a race, a competitor completes a lap when they have gone round a course once.
...that last lap of the race...
比賽最後一圈
On lap two, Baker edged forward.
第二圈時,貝克悄然趕了上去。
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後的車手時出了錯。
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.
我原以為我們最遠能到達橡樹谷,結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...
輕拍著船屋支柱的海水
With a rising tide the water was lapping at his chin before rescuers arrived...
救援人員到達時上漲的潮水已經淹到了他的下巴。
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.
貓舔食盤中牛奶。
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.
他們不得不停止手術,所以那時的我只能聽天由命。
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.
我們的生活雖然並非錦衣玉食,也算是衣食無憂。
1. covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles)
He was caught out while lapping a slower rider.
他在套圈超越一位落後的車手時出了錯。
The only sound was the lapping of the waves.
只聞浪濤拍擊之聲。
In lapping up a fur, they always put the inner side outwards.
捲毛皮時, 他們總是讓內層朝外.
The sea was lapping against the rocks.
大海擊打著礁石.
With a rising tide the water was lapping at his chin before rescuers arrived.
救援人員到達時上漲的潮水已經淹到了他的下巴。