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This means they often have to make a special effort to lay the past to rest.
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Leah gained confidence by laying out her fears and confronting them directly.
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In spring, chickens start laying again, bringing a welcome source of protein at winter's end.
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Why do some students give up when they encounter difficulty, whereas others who are no more skilled continue to strive and learn? One answer, I soon discovered, lay in people's beliefs about why they had failed.
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His mother, convinced that she had to do something dramatic to prevent him from leading a life of failure, lay down some rules.
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As he lay in the hospital recovering, Harper imagined a line of healthy frozen foods that tasted good.
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they lay more emphasis on commitment and devotion
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Increasingly, science indicates that genes lay the groundwork for many human traits.
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But the store manger laid the evil eye on us.
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his mother, convinced that she had to do something dramatic to prevent him from leading a life of failure, lay down some rules.
2015年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
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One answer, I soon discovered, lay in people's beliefs about why they had failed.
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So he lay down and fell asleep, but the tide swept in quickly at the beach.
2019年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
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It laid emphasis on women's beauty.
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Unfortunately, the union in Chicago is insisting that teachers who are laid off—often for being ineffective— should get priority in new hiring.
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According to Chinese officials, their activities in Antarctica lay greater emphasis on scientific research.
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That is because the engineers, designers, regulators, operators, and all of the other skilled people needed for the new energy industry are specialists who have to be trained first ( ' , or retrained, if they are the ones being laid off in some related industry), and education, like any other complicated endeavor, takes times.
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So when fly the north, they might lay eggs in Louisiana and die.
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They start to lay eggs when they are nine months old
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Only the strongest can reach their destination to lay eggs.
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Each flock of butterflies lays eggs in the same states.
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Each generation in a cycle lays eggs at a different place
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Later working together in London, they laid the foundations of modern physics by showing that normal laws of cause and effect do not apply at the level of subatomic particles.
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Apparently the bus company will be laying off its employees if they can't reach an agreement on wages by midnight.
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Laying the foundations of modem mathematics
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They lay great emphasis on hard work.
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Last year, Andrea's husband, Rick, a miner in Nevada was laid off.
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VERB
放置;安放;搁
If you lay something somewhere, you put it there in a careful, gentle, or neat way.
例句
Lay a sheet of newspaper on the floor...
在地上铺一张报纸。
My father's working bench was covered with a cloth and his coffin was laid there...
爸爸的工作台上盖了一块布,他的灵枢就陈放在那儿。
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VERB
布置(餐桌);摆放(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.
例句
The butler always laid the table.
每次都是男管家把餐具摆好。
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VERB
铺放;敷设;铺设
If you lay something such as carpets, cables, or foundations, you put them into their permanent position.
例句
A man came to lay the saloon carpet...
一名男子来铺客厅的地毯。
Public utilities dig up roads to lay pipes.
公共事业公司挖路铺设管道。
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VERB
布设,设置(陷阱)
To lay a trap means to prepare it in order to catch someone or something.
例句
They were laying a trap for the kidnapper.
他们设下一个圈套引绑匪上钩。
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VERB
(鸟)产(卵),下(蛋)
When a female bird lays an egg, it produces an egg by pushing it out of its body.
例句
My canary has laid an egg...
我的金丝雀生了一个蛋。
Freezing weather in spring hampered the hens' ability to lay.
春天严寒的天气降低了母鸡的产蛋能力。
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VERB
奠定基础/制定规划
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.
例句
Diplomats meeting in Chile have laid the groundwork for far-reaching environmental regulations...
在智利会面的外交官们已经为那些对未来影响深远的环境保护条例的制定打好了基础。
The organisers meet in March to lay plans.
组织者们于3月碰头制订计划。
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VERB
归咎/起诉
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.
例句
She refused to lay the blame on any one party...
她拒绝归咎于任何一方。
He could not bear to lay too much responsibility for the unhappiness of his later years on his own shoulders...
为自己晚景凄凉承担这么多责任,他接受不了。
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VERB
押(赌注);就…打赌
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.
例句
I wouldn't lay bets on his still remaining manager after the spring...
我看他的这个经理当不到春天之后了。
I'll lay odds that Dean is at your office right now.
我敢打赌迪安现在就在你办公室。
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VERB
(指交媾)干,搞
To lay someone means to have sex with them.
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N-COUNT
床上功夫高者/轻易就上床者
Lay is used in expressions such a good lay or an easy lay to describe what someone is like as a sexual partner.
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PHRASE
过分夸大;言过其实
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.
例句
Don't lay it on too thick, but make sure they are flattered...
不要吹捧得太露骨,不过一定要恭维得他们很惬意。
I may have spoken a bit too freely, been a bit extreme, even laid it on a little.
我可能有些自由发挥,有些极端,甚至有些言过其实了。
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PHRASE
使易受批评(或攻击)
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.
例句
The party thereby lays itself open to charges of conflict of interest...
该党因此难免被人指责有利益冲突。
Such a statement could lay her open to ridicule.
这种言论会让人家笑话她。