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lair

/lair/US // lɛər //UK // (lɛə) //

老巢,巢巢,老窝,巢穴

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a den or resting place of a wild animal: The cougar retired to its lair.
    • : a secluded or hidden place, especially a secret retreat or base of operations; a hideout or hideaway: a pirate's lair.
    • : British. a place in which to lie or rest; a bed.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to place in a lair.
    • : to serve as a lair for.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to go to, lie in, or have a lair.

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Examples

  • She laughs, and answers that it’s helped her lure audiences into her vocal lair.

  • Balker, who used to sleep in a doorway behind the British Museum, is rounded up by an unknown official and given a clean bed in the heart of the iGhetti’s lair.

  • As I descended into the basement of Padilla-Brown’s Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, home, a pink glow gave the impression that I was entering a mad scientist’s lair.

  • Ancient underground lairs left behind by these animals appear in rocks from coastal Taiwan.

  • Ancient underground lairs left behind by these animals appear in rocks from coastal Taiwan, researchers report January 21 in Scientific Reports.

  • “The lair of the laser loves all of you,” he tells a visiting Atlas Obscura tour group.

  • In January the actor kidnapped Kimmel, tying him up in his lair.

  • He blamed agent Rossi for ruining his life, and over five years, brought women to an underground lair where he killed them.

  • She was only needed if Hitler was actually at the Wolf's Lair, though she never actually saw him.

  • He was not a recluse, however, as the documents and electronic chips recovered by the SEALs from his lair revealed.

  • No trail was so obtuse, no thicket so dense that members of that regiment would not track them to their lair.

  • The belated moon stole up from its lair, hovered above the sky-line, a gaudy orange sphere in the haze of smoke.

  • Every instinct and habit made her a stranger among these poor swamp-people living like vermin in their lair.

  • The boat will leap over laughing waters and flit home, as the muskawk to its lair when the sun dies.

  • Now he was up and about, cheerful and sunny, but a serious object lesson to the lion hunters bound for the lair of the lion.