waylay如何读

英:[weɪˈleɪ]

美:[ˈweˌle]

waylay是什么意思

v. (动词)
  1. 伏击
  2. 拦截
  3. 拦路抢劫
  4. 埋伏
  5. 拦路
  6. 拦住…询问

waylay自然拼读

way·lay

weI leI

waylay变形

第三人称单数:waylays

现在分词:waylaying

过去式:waylaid

过去分词:waylaid

waylay扩展

waylayer (n.)

waylay英英释义

verb

transitive verb

to lie in wait for or attack (someone) from ambush

… he had been waylaid, bound hand and foot, and thrown into a marsh. But he got out again, somehow, to cause a great deal of trouble yet.—Charles Dickens

to temporarily stop the movement or progress of (someone or something) I can get waylaid by tangential thoughts and associations in mid-sentence, and this leads to parentheses, subordinate clauses, sentences of paragraphic length. I never use one adjective if six seem to me better and, in their cumulative effect, more incisive.—Oliver Sacks

The barkeeper, Tony, would come out of his saloon and wait to waylay the men going home. He could always entice a man with a full pocket into his saloon.—Meridel Le Sueur

waylay词源中文解释

"埋伏",1510年代,来自 way(n.)+ lay(v.),仿照中古德语,中古荷兰语 wegelagen "在公共道路上设伏,埋伏以恶意或敌意为伴"。相关词汇: Waylaid; waylaying。

waylay词源英文解释

The first known use of waylay was in 1513

waylay儿童词典英英释义

waylayverb

to attack from a hiding place

waylay 例句

1 And Mr. Spielberg, a shrewd entertainer who can be waylaid by moralism, rarely lets virtue drag this movie down.

2 The movie opens in grand fashion as brigands waylay a desert caravan carrying a toddler princess.

3 Delilah drags Samson out to the desert, where they are waylaid by a lion.

4 I looked at the white faces of Pease and Reynolds; I imagined their waylaying me, killing me.

5 Josef waylays me outside the museum and announces I have driven him to despair because of the way I’ve treated him, he is leaving Toronto forever.

6 She lingered outside the theater to waylay him after the show.

她在戏院外面徘徊想在演出之后拦住他说话.

7 By the time Lumie’s designated “raiser” gets waylaid at a funeral in Germany, Olive is the obvious candidate to work with the pup.

8 When I asked what she meant, she said it’s not that hitchhikers are getting waylaid, it’s just that people standing or walking on the shoulder of the road often get hit.

9 The method is programmatic openness, deep listening, a willingness to be waylaid; the effect, a prismatic picture of history as experienced and understood by individuals in their full amplitude and idiosyncrasy.

10 As gabby as the rest of the show’s characters, Gloria waylays Chuck with her musings on matters of deep faith.

11 So she waylays each bin with a single gloved hand.

12 I'm listening to all this from the tub, the water hotter than I can stand it, to waylay the cramps snaking into my calves after two brutal tennis matches that day.

13 Things may cohere wall by wall, but turn almost any corner, or enter a new gallery, and you’re waylaid by a new personality or style or treatment of space — especially space.

14 When he spotted a sweetshop, he waited outside, then waylaid a chubby little schoolboy lagging behind his friends.

15 Built on the bones of A Bug’s Land, construction for the Avengers Campus was waylaid due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but eventually opened to much fanfare within California Adventure.

16 Neither Ice nor Wynd shall delay me, and I shall not be waylaid by Ruffians.

17 A squad was dispatched to Phoenix Park to waylay Burke during his evening stroll.

18 When Congress waylaid a bipartisan immigration deal this year — at the request of Trump — Padilla was quick to condemn that politicking.

19 Oh, most anybody. Waylay people—that's mostly the way.

遇谁抢谁吧,拦路抢劫——都是这样干的。

20 We didn't get a good look at him until he crawled into a communal toilet to waylay a henchman.

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