【lay音标】 英[leɪ] 美[leɪ]
【单词释义】 lay是什么意思：
vt.放置；铺放；涂，敷；产卵
adj.世俗的；外行的；没有经验的
n.叙事诗；性伙伴
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
[单词复数] lays [第三人称单数] lays
[单词现在分词] laying
[单词过去式] laid
[单词过去分词] laid
【关联词/派生词】
layer n.层，层次 v.把…分层
layout n.布局，安排，设计；版面编排
layoff n.解雇；裁员；停工期
layman n.门外汉，外行；非专业人员；一般信徒
【lay形近词/近似词】
ray n.射线；光线 vt.放射；照射
hay n.干草，草料；少量的钱 v.割草晒干；用干草喂
nay adv. 不但如此，而且；不，否 n. 反对票；否定的回答
pay v. 支付；付款；偿还；缴纳；付酬 n.[U]工资；薪水
bay n.湾，海湾
gay adj.快乐的，愉快的；同性恋的 n.同性恋者（尤指男性）
way n.方式；方法；手段；道路
day n.[U]白天；[C]一天
say v.说，讲；说明；表达 n.[U]发言权，决定权；说话
【常用短语】
lay off 辞退，解雇
【单词例句】
◇ By good luck, the door stood open and the duckling flew out among the bushes and the new fallen snow. And it lay there, thoroughly exhausted, but it would be too sad to mention all the privation and misery had to go through during that hard winter.
幸好大门是开着的。他钻进灌木林中新下的雪里面去。他躺在那里，彻底地筋疲力尽。要是只讲他在这严冬所受到困苦和灾难，那么这个故事也就太悲惨了。
---- The Ugly Duckling
◇ In the dawn of morning there lay the poor little one, with pale cheeks and smiling mouth, leaning against the wall; she had been frozen to death on the last evening of the year; and the New-year's sun rose and shone upon a little corpse!
寒冷的早晨，一个可怜的双颊苍白却面带微笑的小姑娘，蜷缩在墙角里。她已经在旧年的除夕冻死了。新年的太阳升起来了，照在她那小小的身体上！
◇ So she lay on the floor and looked through the open door,into a beautiful garden with green trees and bright flowers.
她趴在地板上看过去，门外是一个美丽的花园，里面长着绿树和鲜艳的花儿。
---- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1)
◇ Near the king's castle lay a dark, gloomy forest. In the middle of the forest there was a fountain.
在国王的城堡附近有一片幽暗的森林。森林中央有一座喷水池。
---- The Frog Prince
◇ She had no sooner touched the spindle when the magic curse was fulfilled, and she pricked herself in the finger. The instant that she felt the prick she fell onto a bed that was standing there, and she lay there in a deep sleep.
但她刚一碰到它，咒语就应验了，她刺中了自己的手指，她一感觉到刺痛，就跌倒在一张站在那里的床上，躺在那里沉睡过去。
---- Little Brier-Rose
◇ She then laid twenty mattresses one upon another over the three peas, and put twenty feather beds over the mattresses.
于是她取出二十床垫子，把它们压在三粒豌豆上。随后，她又在这些垫子上放了二十床鸭绒被。
---- The Real Princess
◇ And she thought only of them as the clergyman laid his hand upon her head, and spoke of the holy baptism, of the covenant with God, and how she should be now a matured Christian;
牧师把手搁在她的头上，讲着神圣的洗礼、她与上帝的誓约以及当一个基督徒的责任，正在这时候，她心中只想着她的这双鞋。
---- The Red Shoes
◇ Cheered up by this news, biologists, in their turn, began to do some research to remove people’s puzzles—Now that there are some suitable conditions, does life really exist on this globe? Do they multiply by laying eggs or giving birth to babies?
受到这一消息的鼓舞，生物学家们接着开始了研究以解开人们的迷惑——既然有了适合的条件，生命真的存在于这个星球吗？他们是通过下蛋，还是产仔来繁殖后代的呢？
---- Explore MKII
◇ One night, I put my head on my pillow--a parcel of wool coats, and lay beneath the stars. When the flame in front of our cave went out at midnight, I found the sky so beautiful!
一天晚上，我把头枕在一包羊毛衣服做的枕头上，躺在星空下，当岩洞前的火焰在午夜熄灭时，我发现夜空是如此的美丽！
---- A Hard Trip
◇ But the wolf laid one of his black paws inside the window. The children saw it and cried out, "We will not open the door. Our mother does not have a black foot like you. You are the wolf."
可是狼把它的黑爪子搭在了窗户上，小山羊们看到黑爪子便一起叫道：“我们不开门。我们的妈妈没有你这样的黑爪子。你是狼！”