laps

英 [læps]

美 [læps]

n.  (坐着时的)大腿部; (跑道等的)一圈; (行程或工作中的)一段，环节
v.  (轻柔而有规律地)拍打; 舔食; 舔着喝; 领先一圈(或数圈)
lap的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT （人坐着时的）大腿部
  If you have something on yourlapwhen you are sitting down, it is on top of your legs and near to your body.
  1. She waited quietly with her hands in her lap...
     她双手放在腿上静静等候。
  2. Hugh glanced at the child on her mother's lap.
     休瞥了一眼坐在她妈妈膝上的小女孩。
• N-COUNT （比赛中的）一圈
  In a race, a competitor completes alapwhen they have gone round a course once.
  1. ...that last lap of the race...
     比赛最后一圈
  2. On lap two, Baker edged forward.
     第二圈时，贝克悄然赶了上去。
• VERB （比赛中）对…完成套圈
  In a race, if youlapanother competitor, you go past them while they are still on the previous lap.
  1. He was caught out while lapping a slower rider.
     他在套圈超越一位落后的车手时出了错。
• N-COUNT 一段路程；一段行程
  Alapof a long journey is one part of it, between two points where you stop.
  1. I had thought we might travel as far as Oak Valley, but we only managed the first lap of the journey.
     我原以为我们最远能到达橡树谷，结果只走完了第一段路程。
• VERB （水）轻拍，轻打
  When waterlapsagainst something such as the shore or the side of a boat, it touches it gently and makes a soft sound.
  1. ...the water that lapped against the pillars of the boathouse...
     轻拍着船屋支柱的海水
  2. With a rising tide the water was lapping at his chin before rescuers arrived...
     救援人员到达时上涨的潮水已经淹到了他的下巴。
  3. The building was right on the river and the water lapped the walls.
     建筑物就矗立在水中，河水轻轻拍打着墙壁。
• VERB （动物）舐，舔
  When an animallapsa drink, it uses short quick movements of its tongue to take liquid up into its mouth.
  1. The cat lapped milk from a dish.
     猫舔食盘中牛奶。
  2. Lap upmeans the same aslap.
     lap up同lap
  3. She poured some water into a plastic bowl. Faust, her Great Dane, lapped it up with relish.
     她往一个塑料碗里倒了一些水，她的大丹犬福斯特便美滋滋地舔起来。
• PHRASE （成败）难以预料，非人力所能左右
  If you say that a situation isin the lap of the gods, you mean that its success or failure depends entirely on luck or on things that are outside your control.
  1. They had to stop the operation, so at that stage my life was in the lap of the gods.
     他们不得不停止手术，所以那时的我只能听天由命。
• PHRASE 养尊处优；锦衣玉食
  If you say that someone livesin the lap of luxury, you mean that they live in conditions of great comfort and wealth.
  1. We don't live in the lap of luxury, but we're comfortable.
     我们的生活虽然并非锦衣玉食，也算是衣食无忧。

双语例句

• In one room, young mothers weave while babies doze in their laps.
  在一间屋子里，年轻的母亲们在织布，而她们的孩子就在她们膝上打盹。
• I've been in more laps than a napkin.
  我坐过的大腿比我用过的卫生巾还多。
• This mat is too big for the room, it laps over at the edges.
  这张席子放在屋里太大，四边都折了起来。
• Introduces several ways of bonding EPDM mem-brane laps and carries out cost analyses.
  介绍了多种EPDM卷材与卷材接合部位粘贴方法，并进行了成本测算。
• On one occasion-just about ten laps before the end the race-I almost fell asleep!
  有一件事情&就在离比赛还有10圈就结束时，我几乎要睡着了！
• CuPc was dissolved by the method of Lewis acid complexation-mediated solubilization ( LAPS), whose mechanism was discussed.
  用路易斯酸配位法溶解了铜酞菁，并对其溶解机理进行了简单探讨。
• I was cousin covered with eye, turn three laps, don't know who the lights are off, I begin to touch.
  我被表哥蒙上了眼睛，转了三圈，不知是谁关了灯，我就开始摸了。
• I doubt anything's gonna drop into our laps.
  我怀疑我们这样能有多大用处。
• With four laps to go, he kept pace with the leaders
  还剩4圈的时候，他紧紧咬住领先者。
• The pressure began to tell as rain closed in after 20 laps
  跑完20圈以后，眼看就要下雨了，大家开始紧张起来。