lay的中文翻譯是什麼意思

VERB放置；安放；擱

If you lay something somewhere, you put it there in a careful, gentle, or neat way.

• Lay a sheet of newspaper on the floor...

  在地上鋪一張報紙。

• My father's working bench was covered with a cloth and his coffin was laid there...

  爸爸的工作臺上蓋了一塊布，他的靈樞就陳放在那兒。

VERB佈置（餐桌）；擺放（餐具）

If you lay the table or lay the places at a table, you arrange the knives, forks, and other things that people need on the table before a meal.

• The butler always laid the table.

  每次都是男管家把餐具擺好。

VERB鋪放；敷設；鋪設

If you lay something such as carpets, cables, or foundations, you put them into their permanent position.

• A man came to lay the saloon carpet...

  一名男子來鋪客廳的地毯。

• Public utilities dig up roads to lay pipes.

  公共事業公司挖路鋪設管道。

VERB佈設，設定（陷阱）

To lay a trap means to prepare it in order to catch someone or something.

• They were laying a trap for the kidnapper.

  他們設下一個圈套引綁匪上鉤。

VERB（鳥）產（卵），下（蛋）

When a female bird lays an egg, it produces an egg by pushing it out of its body.

• My canary has laid an egg...

  我的金絲雀生了一個蛋。

• Freezing weather in spring hampered the hens' ability to lay.

  春天嚴寒的天氣降低了母雞的產蛋能力。

VERB奠定基礎/制定規劃

Lay is used with some nouns to talk about making official preparations for something. For example, if you lay the basis for something or lay plans for it, you prepare it carefully.

• Diplomats meeting in Chile have laid the groundwork for far-reaching environmental regulations...

  在智利會面的外交官們已經為那些對未來影響深遠的環境保護條例的制定打好了基礎。

• The organisers meet in March to lay plans.

  組織者們於3月碰頭制訂計劃。

VERB歸咎/起訴

Lay is used with some nouns in expressions about accusing or blaming someone. For example, if you lay the blame for a mistake on someone, you say it is their fault, or if the police lay charges against someone, they officially accuse that person of a crime.

• She refused to lay the blame on any one party...

  她拒絕歸咎於任何一方。

• He could not bear to lay too much responsibility for the unhappiness of his later years on his own shoulders...

  為自己晚景淒涼承擔這麼多責任，他接受不了。

VERB押（賭注）；就…打賭

If you say that you would lay bets, odds, or money on something happening, you mean that you are very confident that it will happen.

• I wouldn't lay bets on his still remaining manager after the spring...

  我看他的這個經理當不到春天之後了。

• I'll lay odds that Dean is at your office right now.

  我敢打賭迪安現在就在你辦公室。

VERB（指交媾）幹，搞

To lay someone means to have sex with them.

N-COUNT床上功夫高者/輕易就上床者

Lay is used in expressions such a good lay or an easy lay to describe what someone is like as a sexual partner.

PHRASE過分誇大；言過其實

If someone is laying it on thick or is laying it on, they are exaggerating a statement, experience, or emotion in order to try to impress people.

• Don't lay it on too thick, but make sure they are flattered...

  不要吹捧得太露骨，不過一定要恭維得他們很愜意。

• I may have spoken a bit too freely, been a bit extreme, even laid it on a little.

  我可能有些自由發揮，有些極端，甚至有些言過其實了。

PHRASE使易受批評（或攻擊）

If you lay yourself open to criticism or attack, or if something lays you open to it, something you do makes it possible or likely that other people will criticize or attack you.

• The party thereby lays itself open to charges of conflict of interest...

  該黨因此難免被人指責有利益衝突。

• Such a statement could lay her open to ridicule.

  這種言論會讓人家笑話她。