lay away

基本解释

A few hours away lay sandy-beached Handa, an island once ruled by its oldest widow.
几小时航程之外是沙滩簇拥的翰达岛，这个岛曾经由翰达最年长的寡妇管理。
But their father’s estate in the bleak Scottish borders was ridden with debt. The only hope for the younger Johnstones of Westerhall lay in getting away.
但是他们父亲在荒凉苏格兰边界的庄园负债累累，如果说西边堂Johnstones家族的年轻人还有一个希望，那便是“有多远，走多远”。
Why don't you lay that problem away for a while?
你为什么不把那个问题暂时放一放？

The body lay near the window, where the animal had left it when frightened away by the light and sound of the rifle.
Roger Smith,a co-founder of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, says many Turks refuse to use the word 'genocide.' "I worked with some Turkish scholars and these are people who would be considered liberals and so on - but even they really kind of shy away from using the word 'genocide.' They will talk about massacres - you lay all of these things out and they say yeah,yeah,yeah, this happened,okay - well no,I don't want to use that word.

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