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/ley-bahy/US // ˈleɪˌbaɪ //

由,躺在,铺设,奠定了

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : British. a place beside the main road or track where vehicles may wait.
    • : Nautical. a mooring place in a narrow river or canal, formed to one side so as to leave the channel free.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • One police officer was coolly dispatched as he lay wounded on the sidewalk.

  • A step-by-step plan to break from your various technology addictions.

  • Those snakes attacked unwitting passers-by, or invaded homes and hotels.

  • Horniness packs side-by-side by with a deeper loneliness along the walls of The Park.

  • Lay the butterflied pork loin on the cutting board with the fat cap facing down.

  • A small book, bound in full purple calf, lay half hidden in a nest of fine tissue paper on the dressing-table.

  • All along the highways and by-paths of our literature we encounter much that pertains to this "queen of plants."

  • The seed of discontent was again germinating under the duplicity of the Spanish lay and clerical authorities.

  • At the sight, Felipe flung himself on his knees before her; he kissed the aged hands as they lay trembling in her lap.

  • Alone Orlean lay trying vainly to forget something—something that stood like a spectre before her eyes.