lying in wait

英 [ˈlaɪɪŋ ɪn weɪt]

美 [ˈlaɪɪŋ ɪn weɪt]

埋伏，伏击，诡计

法律

英英释义

noun

• the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise
  Synonym:ambushambuscadetrap

adj

• waiting in concealment
  1. an army lying in wait in the forest

双语例句

• Lala accelerated her walk up the path to the caves fearing that there might be wild animals lying in wait for her.
  拉拉在回山洞的路上加快了脚步，因为害怕里面会有野兽躺着等她。
• The bandits were lying in wait for the travellers.
  土匪埋伏着等待路人。
• He should be lying in wait for you in one of those places.
  他会在其中一个地带对你伏击。
• The horrors lying in wait for them round every corner.
  暗伏在他们周围的种种恐怖事件。
• Now there were men lying in wait, abiding with her in the chamber.
  有人预先埋伏在妇人的内室里。
• When I was lying in bed, when employing wait, my eye socket is a moist, is a friend to bring trouble to relatives tears, feelings are complex;
  当我躺在病床上，用人伺候的时候，我的眼圈是湿润的，是给亲人朋友带来麻烦的泪花，心情是复杂的；
• And now the scene shifts to the warehouse, where the murderer is lying in wait.
  现在场景转到仓库，行凶者正埋伏在那里伺机行动。
• From what you eat and drink to where you live, there's a special sickness lying in wait just for you if you have the misfortune to have two X chromosomes.
  如果很不幸你的基因是由两个X染色体组成，那么从你吃喝的东西到你生活的地方，这儿都有个专门的疾病在静静地等待着你。
• Being compelled to emerge into the main road, his ill fortune brought him at last where a small party of boys, headed by a ferocious young butcher, was lying in wait for any means of pleasurable excitement that might happen.
  由于最后不得不出现在大路上，所以厄运终于又降临到他的头上。有一小群以一位残暴的年轻屠夫为首的男孩子正躺在那里等待着有什么可供他们开心取乐的事情发生。
• It had been lying in wait, rarely spoken of, for 60 years.
  这段故事一直沉睡着等待了60年，几乎从未被提起。