5in the lap of luxuryCOMFORTABLEhaving 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。
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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 legalchallenge.• 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 interiorallows you to sit in the lap of luxury.
6.in the lap of the godsBritish 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
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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.
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. (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
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。
4lap something ↔ upphrasal 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。
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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 audiencelapping it up.• Francis and Christopher dissolved in laughter, lapped theirs up and declared it very good.• Induk laps it up, her tongue following the meanderingtrails.• 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 hungrycat does milk.
lap against/over etc• No one could have asked for a better finallap over the 1. 527-mile oval at Homestead, Fla.• Below his window, the new spring water softly lapped against the rocks.• The white blanketrolled 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 waistlap over the top of his belt.