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lap

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ldoce_194_blap1 /læp/ ●●○ noun [countableC]  
1  HBHthe upper part of your legs when you are sitting down 〔坐着时的〕大腿部 SYN knee
on somebody’s lap
 Shannon sat on her mother’s lap.
香农坐在她妈妈的腿上。
in somebody’s lap
 His hands were folded in his lap.
他双手合拢，放在腿上。
→5  See picture of Shannon sat on her mother's lap. 香农坐在她妈妈的腿上。
2  AROUND/ROUNDa single journey around a race track 〔跑道的〕一圈
 Rubens Barrichello finished a lap ahead of his team-mate.
鲁本斯·巴里切罗领先队友一圈跑完全程。
lap of honour British EnglishBrE, victory lap American EnglishAmE (=a lap to celebrate winning) 〔优胜者的〕绕场一周
 The entire team took a victory lap in front of their cheering fans.
全队在欢呼的球迷面前绕场一周庆祝胜利。
→4  See picture of 见图 DRINK 1
3  American EnglishAmE a single journey from one end of a swimming pool to another 〔游泳池的〕一趟游程
do/run/swim a lap
 Every morning she swims 50 laps in the pool.
她每天早上都会在游泳池里来回游50趟。
4  TRAVELa part of a long journey 长途旅行中的一段 SYN leg
lap of
 The last lap of their journey was by ship.
他们旅程的最后一段是坐船。
5  in the lap of luxury COMFORTABLEhaving an easy and comfortable life with a lot of money, possessions etc 生活优裕的，养尊处优的
 She wasn’t used to living in the lap of luxury.
她不习惯养尊处优。
Examples from the Corpus
in the lap of luxury• And has been keeping him in the lap of luxury, hasn't he, all this time.• It should ensure your pet lives in the lap of luxury - without risking a legal challenge.• Fido too is living in the lap of luxury in pet-crazy Britain.• Last week Katie Wood was living in the lap of luxury up in Wick.• Whilst the interior allows you to sit in the lap of luxury.
6. in the lap of the gods British EnglishBrENOT KNOW if the result of something is in the lap of the gods, you do not know what will happen because it depends on things you cannot control 在神的掌控之中，难以预料
Examples from the Corpus
lap• Every morning she swims fifty laps in the pool.• She put her fists into her lap and crouched in her chair, the way people die in sparsely furnished rooms.• Robyn sat on the floor by the fire, with her plate on her lap, and tucked in.• Dorothea sat at his feet, her head in his lap.• From a three-hour flight, at the outside, when he'd only flown from London to Helsinki on the last lap?• She turned and leaned back into my lap, her shirt falling open.• I pulled the covers up over my lap.• With one lap to go in the race, Petty's car blew a tire.• Shannon sat on her mother's lap and smiled for the camera.
lap of honour• Harbury was doing what Holly would call a lap of honour, circling the room saying goodbyes.• His lap of honour was a painful affair, taken at a walk.• Draped in the union flag, he took what must be the slowest lap of honour in history.• It was the sort of distance that Olympic sprinters can cover in less than a minute on their lap of honour.
do/run/swim a lap• The losing team-players and coaches-must run laps.• He would run a lap and would become too fatigued to continue.
last lap ... journey• The only thing that kept me going on the last lap of the journey was the rhythm of my steps.
lap2 verb (lapped, lapping)  
1  [intransitiveI, transitiveT]LIQUID if water laps something or laps against something such as the shore or a boat, it moves against it or hits it in small waves 〔波浪〕轻轻拍打，冲刷
lap against/over etc
 The waves lapped gently against the rocks.
波浪轻轻地拍打岩石。
 The tide was lapping the harbour wall.
潮水拍打着港口的防汛墙。
2. lap.jpg (also lap up) [transitiveT]DRINK if an animal laps water, milk etc, it drinks it by putting its tongue into it 〔动物〕舔饮
3  [transitiveT]PASS A TEST to pass a competitor in a race who is one complete lap behind you 领先〔另一竞赛者〕一圈
 Erik Gomas spun off the track when trying to lap Andrew Scott.
埃里克·科马斯试图领先安德鲁·斯科特一圈时失控冲出赛道。
4 lap something ↔ up phrasal verbphr v 
a) ENJOY/LIKE DOING somethingto enjoy something without worrying about whether it is good, true etc 〔不分好坏、真假地〕欣然接受
 She’s lapping up all the attention she’s getting.
对于大家的关心，她照单全收。
 The humour was lapped up by an appreciative crowd.
有欣赏力的听众爱听这样的幽默。
b) if an animal laps up water, milk etc, it drinks it by putting its tongue into it 〔动物〕舔饮
 The cat began to lap up the milk.
猫咪开始舔食牛奶。
Examples from the Corpus
lap up• Fred, typically, was lapping it up.• It does sound silly at this distance of time, but then, green as grass, I lapped it all up.• Probably she would lap it up.• This was a most enjoyable set, with the orchestra obviously delighting in the direction and the audience lapping it up.• Francis and Christopher dissolved in laughter, lapped theirs up and declared it very good.• Induk laps it up, her tongue following the meandering trails.• Last week Katie Wood was living in the lap of luxury up in Wick.• Naturally, I can resist anything but flattery and lapped it up like a hungry cat does milk.
—lapping noun [uncountableU]
 She could hear the soft lapping of the sea.
她能听到海浪轻柔的拍打声。
Examples from the Corpus
lap• The floodwaters were lapping at the sides.• I lapped at the warm, rich blood; very nice, very fresh.• Senna lapped everyone in the San Marino Grand Prix.• This morning the water was clear and silvery, chuckling a little as it lapped over the smooth, oval, brown stones.• Patrese lapped the 2.7-mile circuit at 128 mph.• Perhaps he can borrow a reptile to perch next to him and lap up his tears as they fall.• The gun lapped up snow and vegetation with a blow-torch thirty feet long.• Not surprisingly, it is a comparison that the Bush people lap up with delight.• Ice cream is one food that most kids lap up without hesitation.
lap against/over etc• No one could have asked for a better final lap over the 1. 527-mile oval at Homestead, Fla.• Below his window, the new spring water softly lapped against the rocks.• The white blanket rolled down the hillside and lapped over the roofs of the dwelling and outbuildings of the little farm.• Eventually he went to sleep to the sound of little waves lapping against the sea-wall.• This morning the water was clear and silvery, chuckling a little as it lapped over the smooth, oval, brown stones.• The waves which lapped over the stern of the raft were our waste-disposal system.• The rolls of fat around his waist lap over the top of his belt.
Origin lap1
1. Old English læppa
2. (1800-1900) → LAP2
3. in the earlier meaning “to run a single time round a track”
 lap2
1. Old English lapian
2. (1200-1300) Probably from → LAP11 in the earlier meaning “fold, piece of cloth”
lap1 nounlap2 verb
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