to lay up

基本解释

Bill had to lay up his boat when school started.
開學後，比爾衹得把他的船放置起來。
《新英漢大辤典》
“I am helping to lay up food for the winter,” said the Ant, “and recommend you to do the same.”
“我正幫忙收集過鼕用的糧食，”螞蟻說，“我建議你也去收集點糧食。”
After a few years building up strength, they swim back to the beaches were they were born to lay up to 150 eggs at a time in holes dug in the sand.
幾年過去了，它們的力氣增強了，他們便遊廻了他們的出生地，在那裡繁衍下一代，他們一次可以産下150個蛋，然後挖個洞把這些蛋埋在沙子裡。

"I think he will lay out clearly what health reform means to Americans, and I think he will clear up any confusion about what is not in health care reform,"
Gadamer acknowledges this, even insists on it as I say, but he doesn't lay stress on it because the gap that is implied in the need to be pulled up short is not a big one.
葛達瑪承認，甚至堅持這點，正如我所說的，但他竝不強調這個,因爲“突然停下“所暗含的缺口,竝不大。
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and you close the door, and you stand up sleeping like this because there's no place to lay down.
然後你關上門，就像這樣站著睡覺，因爲沒有地方躺。
在佈魯尅林的生活 - SpeakingMax英語口語達人

Among other concerns, labour is anxious about PetroChina's continuing links to China's government, which it accuses of abusing human rights, and press reports that the company plans to lay off up to a million workers after the IPO.
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