lay的意思是：v.lie的过去式；n.放置；躺下；打赌；设计；击倒；产卵；使平静；压平；adj.地形；位置；叙事短诗；交媾。lay过去式:laid；过去分词:laid；现在分词:laying；第三人称单数:lays。lay【近义词】bet。
一、详尽释义点此查看lay的详细内容
二、英英释义
"set his collar in laic rather than clerical position"
"the lay ministry"
"a lay opinion as to the cause of the disease"
"Put your things here"
"Set the tray down"
"Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"
"Place emphasis on a certain point"
"lay the books on the table"
"lay the patient carefully onto the bed"
"lay a fire"
"lay the foundation for a new health care plan"
"This hen doesn't lay"
"lay a responsibility on someone"
三、词典解释
动词和名词用法（VERB AND NOUN USES）
In standard English, the formlay is also the past tense of the verblie in some meanings. In informal English, people sometimes use the wordlay instead oflie in those meanings.1.放置；安放；搁
If youlay something somewhere, you put it there in a careful, gentle, or neat way.
e.g. Lay a sheet of newspaper on the floor...
在地上铺一张报纸。
e.g. 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。
2.布置（餐桌）；摆放（餐具）
If youlay the table orlay the places at a table, you arrange the knives, forks, and other things that people need on the table before a meal.
lay的意思
e.g. The butler always laid the table.
每次都是男管家把餐具摆好。
3.铺放；敷设；铺设
If youlay something such as carpets, cables, or foundations, you put them into their permanent position.
lay的反义词
e.g. A man came tolay the saloon carpet...
一名男子来铺客厅的地毯。
e.g. Public utilities dig up roads tolay pipes.
公共事业公司挖路铺设管道。
4.布设，设置（陷阱）
Tolay a trap means to prepare it in order to catch someone or something.
e.g. They were laying a trap for the kidnapper.
他们设下一个圈套引绑匪上钩。
5.（鸟）产（卵），下（蛋）
When a female birdlays an egg, it produces an egg by pushing it out of its body.
lay
e.g. My canary has laid an egg...
我的金丝雀生了一个蛋。
e.g. Freezing weather in spring hampered the hens' ability tolay.
春天严寒的天气降低了母鸡的产蛋能力。
6.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 youlay the basis for something orlay plans for it, you prepare it carefully.
e.g. 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。
e.g. The organisers meet in March tolay plans.
组织者们于3月碰头制订计划。
7.归咎/起诉
Lay is used with some nouns in expressions about accusing or blaming someone. For example, if youlay the blame for a mistake on someone, you say it is their fault, or if the policelay charges against someone, they officially accuse that person of a crime.
e.g. She refused tolay the blame on any one party...
她拒绝归咎于任何一方。
e.g. He could not bear tolay 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。
8.押（赌注）；就…打赌
If you say that you wouldlay bets, odds, or money on something happening, you mean that you are very confident that it will happen.
e.g. I wouldn'tlay 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。
e.g. I'lllay odds that Dean is at your office right now.
我敢打赌迪安现在就在你办公室。
9.（指交媾）干，搞
Tolay someone means to have sex with them.
lay的解释
10.床上功夫高者/轻易就上床者
Lay is used in expressions such agood lay or aneasy lay to describe what someone is like as a sexual partner.
lay是什么意思
11.过分夸大；言过其实
If someoneis laying it on thick or islaying it on, they are exaggerating a statement, experience, or emotion in order to try to impress people.
e.g. Don'tlay 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。
e.g. 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。
12.使易受批评（或攻击）
If youlay yourselfopen to criticism or attack, or if somethinglays youopen to it, something you do makes it possible or likely that other people will criticize or attack you.
e.g. 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。
e.g. Such a statement couldlay her open to ridicule.
这种言论会让人家笑话她。
13. tolay something bare -> see bare
tolay claim to something -> see claim
tolay something at someone's door -> see door
tolay eyes on something -> see eye
tolay a finger on someone -> see finger
tolay your hands on something -> see hand
tolay down the law -> see law
tolay down your life -> see life
tolay something to rest -> see rest
tolay siege to something -> see siege
tolay waste -> see waste
相关词组：lay asidelay beforelay downlay inlay intolay offlay onlay outlay up
形容词用法（ADJECTIVE USES）
1.（基督教中）平信徒的，世俗的，非神职的
You uselay to describe people who are involved with a Christian church but are not members of the clergy or are not monks or nuns.
lay
e.g. Edwards is a Methodistlay preacher and social worker.
爱德华是一位循道宗在俗传教士兼社会工作者。
2.业余的；外行的；门外汉的
You uselay to describe people who are not experts or professionals in a particular subject or activity.
lay的近义词
e.g. It is difficult for alay person to gain access to medical libraries...
非业内人士难以进入医学图书馆。
e.g. It is not just a textbook for professional diplomats. Thelay reader will enjoy the anecdotes.
它不仅仅是职业外交家的教科书，里面的轶事趣闻外行的读者也会喜欢。
四、例句
You may lay it on the table.
你可以把它放在桌子上。
I lay down not so much to sleep as to think.
我躺下来与其说是要睡觉，倒不如说是要思考。
I'll lay odds of three to one that he gets the job.
我以三比一的赔率打赌，他能得到那份工作。
He showed us how to lay out a printed page.
他告诉我们怎样设计版面。
Surveyors lay out Wall Street along the line of the stockade.
测量员沿着栅栏设计出墙街。
They lay eggs from the beginning of July to the middle of August.
它们在7月初到8月中这段时间产卵。
He knows the lay of the land here.
他了解这里的地形。
Lay more emphasis on combating corruption and advocating integrity.
把反腐倡廉放在更加突出的位置上。
A lay figure can be placed in any position, or attitude, and clothed in any costume and thus serves as a model for the drapery.
人体模型可以放在任何位置，摆成任何姿势，穿上任何服装，作为服装店的模特儿。
A lay opinion as to the seriousness of the disease.
关于这种疾病的非专业的意见
The lay public must be convinced that this is right and beneficial, and the medical fraternity must be held to the standards of the subuniverse.
世俗的大众将会相信这是对的并有利的，而医学会友维持在此次级共同体的标准上。
五、词汇搭配
六、经典引文
W. S. Gilbert's lay of the two Englishmen wrecked on a desert island.
出自：E. HuxleyOne can never spontaneously burst into song, however doleful a lay.
出自：N. FryeBy venturing my life upon an even lay with him.
出自：DefoeParticular attention must now be given to women, both lay and religious.
出自：New York TimesWe check the fire by laying flat Each building in its path.
出自：BrowningLike flaws in summer laying lusty corn.
出自：Tennyson七、词源解说
lay的相关近义词
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lay的相关反义词
lay的相关临近词
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