| 词组 | lay down |
| 释义 | lay down 1. lay down sth • lay sth down to officially establish a rule or way of doing something, or say officially what someone should do: ▪ The Geneva Convention lays down conditions for the treatment of prisoners of war. ▪ The right of every American to bear arms is laid down in the US constitution. + that ▪ The Sex Discrimination Act lays down that men and women should receive equal pay for equal work. ■ SIMILAR TO: stipulate formal, ↑set down 2. lay down your weapons/arms/guns etc to stop fighting, or agree to give up your weapons: ▪ Many of the soldiers had already begun to lay down their arms before the final peace treaty was signed. ▪ The IRA has so far refused to lay down any of its weapons, and can continue its campaign of violence at any time. ■ SIMILAR TO: surrender formal 3. lay down the law to tell someone very firmly what they should or should not do, especially in a way that annoys or upsets them: ▪ Her father had started laying down the law about what time she was supposed to come back home. 4. lay down sth • lay sth down to establish something that will develop in the future: ▪ The course aims to lay down the basis for a career in teaching. ▪ The foundations of future health are laid down in childhood. ■ SIMILAR TO: establish 5. lay down sth • lay sth down technical if you lay down a wine, you store it and keep it for several years, in order to improve its taste: ▪ Maison du Vin has a wide range of fine Bordeaux wines which are suitable for laying down. 6. lay down a challenge to ask someone if they will try to compete with you or defeat you, or do something very difficult, especially something that no one has been able to do before: ▪ Following the challenge laid down by President Kennedy in the early 60s, the first Americans finally landed on the moon in 1969. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑throw down 7. lay down your life formal to give up your life in order to help other people, for example in a war to defend your country: ▪ a memorial to the soldiers who laid down their lives in the First World War ■ SIMILAR TO: give your life 8. lay down sth • lay sth down formal to give up something, for example your right to something: ▪ Britain has so far been unwilling to lay down its claim to sovereignty over the Falkland Islands. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑give up, ↑abandon, renounce formal 9. lay down sth • lay sth down usually passive if a layer of something such as rock is laid down, it forms gradually and becomes a solid mass: ▪ deposits of limestone which were laid down millions of years ago |
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