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。
用作名词(n.)
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。
用作形容词(adj.)
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。
权威例句
A Comparison of Clinical and Diagnostic Interview Schedule Diagnoses: Physician Reexamination of Lay-Interviewed Cases in the Genera...Comparison of the Lay Diagnostic Interview Schedule and a Standardized Psychiatric Diagnosis: Experience in Eastern BaltimoreMeasuring psychiatric disorder in the community: a standardized assessment for use by lay interviewers.The freezing and unfreezing of lay-inferences: Effects on impressional primacy, ethnic stereotyping, and numerical anchoring.Lay health workers in primary and community health care for maternal and child health and the management of infectious diseasesLay health workers in primary and community health careLay dispositionism and implicit theories of personality.An overview of clinical research: the lay of the landDesign of the new-style lay-tow machineScheduling Algorithms for Multiprogramming in a Hard-Real-Time Environment