单词 | deep-laid |
释义 | deep-laidadj. Deeply laid; planned with profound cunning. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [adjective] > in contrivance or machination > cunningly contrived or devised > planned with profound cunning deep-laida1774 a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. i. 274 Any deep laid scheme or fine-spun artifice. 1783 Hist. Miss Baltimores I. 74 He is a deep-laid villain after women. 1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece I. i. xv. 390 The deep-laid designs, of Zeus. 1869 A. Trollope He knew he was Right I. xxiii. 183 He himself had had no very deep-laid scheme in his addresses to Colonel Osborne. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < adj.a1774 |
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