| 单词 | laid |
| 释义 | laid (once / 45 pages) adj Laid means "set down." If you built a brick wall, and then when it's done your neighbor complains that the wall crosses onto his property, tell him, "too late! The brick has already been laid." Laid is the past participle of the verb, lay, which means set down. So something that has been laid has already been set down. You might scramble up the eggs the chickens laid yesterday. Before your guests come over, your table should have been laid. Or you might examine the foundations that the builder laid down for the house you're building. We often use laid if we want to emphasize how carefully something has been done. WORD FAMILYlaid: laider, laidest, laidly, mislaid USAGE EXAMPLES“This covert action by the Nixon campaign,” he said, “laid the ground for the skulduggery of his presidency.” New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Then his mother was laid off from a flour plant, and they were evicted from their home. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) It laid down a blueprint for the dispossession of the Palestinians, tearing a regional wound that is still unhealed. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) adj set down according to a plan:"a carefully laid table with places set for four people" stones laid in a pattern Syn set arranged, ordered disposed or placed in a particular kind of order |
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