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单词 to lay for
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to lay for
b. intr. to lay for: to set an ambush or a trap for; to beset the path of; to lie in wait for, waylay.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > make an attack upon [verb (transitive)] > lie in wait for
keepc1000
waitc1200
aspya1250
awaita1250
wait onc1390
to wait on ——1390
forestall1413
belay1470
to lay fora1513
waylay1513
forelay1548
ambush1555
counterwait1562
to lie for1611
set1670
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. iiiiv ii. M. of His men..were layde for, & distressyd.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 602/1 I laye for, as hunters or fysshers layeth his nettes for his praye, je tens. I have layde for a pickrell, but I wene I shall catche a frogge.
1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 569 Being..hardly laid for at sea by Cortugogli a famous pirat.
1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xix. ix. 134 The inhabitants beyond Tigris, streightly layed for, were all massacred every mothers child.
1623 P. Massinger Duke of Millaine v. i. sig. L3 Men in debt..layd for by their creditors.
1648 Bp. J. Hall Select Thoughts 246 Even our blessed leader..when he found that he was laid for in Judea, flees into Galilee.
1893 National Observer 20 May 22/1 He was ‘laid for’ by a scoundrel whom, being a magistrate, he had sent up for trial.
1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 291 The men go and lay for a rubber-hunter.
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