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

• 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。
• I would swim up and down and all around in laps of two or three.
  我会游泳，向上和向下，并在各地圈的两个或三个。
• My athlete plans to run even pace laps then make a break eight hundred meters from home.
  我的运动员打算先用平稳的步速跑几圈，然后在距终点800米处冲刺。
• After the first few laps around the track he hit his stride.
  跑了几圈后，他的步态稳健了。
• I enjoyed the final laps, and it was an important race to win.
  我喜欢最后的几圈，那是一场赢得胜利的重要比赛。
• He eventually relented after the coach made his teammates run laps of the court each time he refused.
  后来，姚明每次拒绝扣篮后，教练就让他的队友在场内跑圈，他终于妥协了。
• She flatters him all the time and he just laps it up.
  她一直对他吹捧奉承，而他一并接受。
• You think a solution will fall into our laps?
  你认为办法会从天上掉下来？
• He drove what must have been one of the most impressive laps of even his long career.
  他开出的这一圈，即使在他漫长的职业生涯中也是最令人印象深刻的几圈之一。
• I had the opportunity to drive the RA108 for the first time in Valencia last week and although I ran for just a few laps in the new car, we were able to complete the planned activity.
  上星期，我第一次有机会驾驶RA108赛车，虽然我驾驶新赛车只跑了几圈，但我们完成了原定计划。