| 词汇 | lay up |
| 释义 | lay uplay up phrasal verbphr v a) be laid up (with something)ILL to have to stay in bed because you are ill or injured 〔因患病或受伤〕卧床不起 I was laid up for a week with flu. 我得了流感，卧床一个星期。 b) to stop using a boat or vehicle, especially while it is being repaired 〔尤指因正在维修〕停止使用〔船或车〕；使〔船只〕入坞维修；使〔车辆〕闲置不用 lay something ↔ up Most of the yachts were laid up for the winter. 大部分游艇冬季都入坞检修了。 c) lay something ↔ up old-fashionedKEEP/STORE to collect and store something to use in the future 储存，储备 We started laying up firewood for the winter. 我们开始储备柴火准备过冬。 Examples from the Corpus be laid up (with something)• She had never got used to the hours since John had been made redundant when all the ships were laid up.• Large numbers of nuclear-powered submarines are laid up at a harbour near Murmansk.• It was, and Venturous was laid up at Buckie for nearly ten months while new Cummins engines were fitted.• How much land must you commit to arable rotation, and how much must be laid up for hay or silage?• All was safely gathered in and Mr and Mrs Squirrel Nutkin's hoard was laid up for winter's sustenance.• The barges, designed to be sailed by one man and a boy, could be laid up in a few days.• In those days all the cutters were laid up on the trot piles in the river Hamble during the winter months.• I don't know how long I shall be laid up with this wretched ankle. → lay up at lay2(PHRASAL VERB) |
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