【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】
say v.说，讲；说明；表达 n.[U]发言权，决定权；说话
way n.方式；方法；手段；道路
gay adj.快乐的，愉快的；同性恋的 n.同性恋者（尤指男性）
ray n.射线；光线 vt.放射；照射
nay adv. 不但如此，而且；不，否 n. 反对票；否定的回答
bay n.湾，海湾
hay n.干草，草料；少量的钱 v.割草晒干；用干草喂
pay v. 支付；付款；偿还；缴纳；付酬 n.[U]工资；薪水
day n.[U]白天；[C]一天
【常用短语】
lay off 辞退，解雇
【单词例句】
◇ After she had eaten the pear she was full, and she went and lay down in the brush.
她吃完梨子后，吃饱了，就走到灌木丛里躺下。
---- The Girl without Hands (I)
◇ She untied the small boy from her back, held him to her breast so he could drink, and then laid him in a beautiful made-up bed.
她将孩子从王后背上解下来，抱到她怀里让孩子吃奶，随后将孩子放到一张做得极其精致的小床上。
---- The Girl without Hands (II)
◇ 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！”
---- The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids
◇ 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
◇ 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
◇ 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
◇ 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