to lay up

常见例句

Bill had to lay up his boat when school started.
开学后，比尔只得把他的船放置起来。
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“I am helping to lay up food for the winter,” said the Ant, “and recommend you to do the same.”
“我正帮忙收集过冬用的粮食，”蚂蚁说，“我建议你也去收集点粮食。”
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.
几年过去了，它们的力气增强了，他们便游回了他们的出生地，在那里繁衍下一代，他们一次可以产下150个蛋，然后挖个洞把这些蛋埋在沙子里。

"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.
葛达玛承认，甚至坚持这点，正如我所说的，但他并不强调这个,因为“突然停下“所暗含的缺口,并不大。
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and you close the door, and you stand up sleeping like this because there's no place to lay down.
然后你关上门，就像这样站着睡觉，因为没有地方躺。
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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.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy
PetroChina subsequently ran into its own policy controversy, thanks to its reported intentions to lay off up to 800, 000 workers, its plan to despoil Tibet and its complete operational and financial subordination to CNPC and, in turn, to its owner — the government of China.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center for Security Policy Broad-Based Coalition Plays Pivotal Role in PetroChina’s I.P.O. — And Market’s Bleak View of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises
PetroChina subsequently ran into its own policy controversy, thanks to its reported intentions to lay off up to 800, 000 workers, its plan to despoil Tibet and its complete operational and financial subordination to CNPC and, in turn, to its owner -- the government of China.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy