新东方-柯林斯雅思备考词典

lap

英 [læp]

[NOUN, VERB]

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NOUN. 名词

laps
1. [C 可数名词] （人坐着时的）大腿部
If you have something on your lap when you are sitting down, it is on top of your legs and near to your body.
双语例句
例：
She waited quietly with her hands in her lap.
她双手放在大腿上静静地等候。
2. [C 可数名词] （跑道的）一圈
In a race, a competitor completes a lap when they have gone around a course once.
双语例句
例：
that last lap of the race.
比赛的最后一圈。
3. [C 可数名词] 一段行程
A lap of a long journey is one part of it, between two points where you stop.
近义词
leg
双语例句
例：
I had thought we might travel as far as Oak Valley, but we only managed the first lap of the journey.
我原以为我们可以到达橡树谷，但是我们仅仅完成了行程的第一段。

PHRASAL VERB. 短语动词

lap up
1. [PHRASAL 短语] 舐食（同）lap）
Lap up means the same as lap.
双语例句
例：
She poured some water into a plastic bowl. Faust, her Great Dane, lapped it up with relish.
她往一个塑料碗里倒了些水，她的丹麦大狗福斯特津津有味地舐食起来。
2. [PHRASAL 短语] 照单全收
If you say that someone laps up something such as information or attention, you mean that they accept it eagerly, usually when you think they are being foolish for believing that it is sincere.
双语例句
例：
Their audience will lap up whatever they throw at them.
观众会对他们的表演照单全收。

VERB. 动词

laps , lapping , lapped
1. [I 不及物动词] 比…领先一圈
In a race, if you lap another competitor, you go past them while they are still on the previous lap.
双语例句
例：
He then built a 10-bike lead before lapping his first rider on lap 14.
然后，他领先了10辆自行车的距离，之后又在第14圈时超过了他后一位车手一圈。
2. [I 不及物动词] 轻拍
When water laps against something such as the shore or the side of a boat, it touches it gently and makes a soft sound.
双语例句
例：
the water that lapped against the pillars of the boathouse.
水轻拍着船屋的柱子。
例：
With a rising tide the water was lapping at his chin before rescuers arrived.
在救生员到达之前，上涨的潮水打着了他的下巴。
3. [T 及物动词] （动物）舐食
When an animal laps a drink, it uses short quick movements of its tongue to take liquid up into its mouth.
双语例句
例：
It lapped milk from a dish.
它从一个盘子里舐食牛奶。

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