This is an old tradition where couples jump over a broomstick laid on the ground.

VOA: special.2010.08.09

So, we'll talk about this other axis of style on the course, writing code that looks pretty and as well aesthetically laid out.

我们来讨论一下这个中心对称的程序，这程序写出来的结果很漂亮,完全按照美学角度摆放。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

A to B is one distance, which is a large one, and B to C is only half that distance, and that's because of the way the Greeks laid this thing out with their two to one ratios, three to two ratios and so on.

到B是一个距离,比较大,而B到C只有半个距离,因为希腊人,用诸如二比一,三比二,之类的频率比来安排音阶

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Adobe is shaped into bricks that are laid one on top of another and used as a low cost way to build walls and houses.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

And if you've ever heard the word driver software that you install in your computer so that your computer, your operating system, Windows or Mac OS, knows how to talk to that piece of hardware, it's that driver software that then empowers the operating systems to send those commands as well, up, the data is laid out on the disk.

并且如果你听说过安装到,电脑中的驱动软件这个词的话，你的操作系统，比如Windows或者是苹果操作系统，通过这个驱动软件我们的电脑，才能知道如何与这个硬件进行通信,正是因为这个驱动软件，操作系统才能根据数据，左右移动的指令来读取磁盘里的数据。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

It stayed there, as if he had laid it on a table!

VOA: special.2009.06.17

I got off my horse and laid Powell on the ground.

VOA: special.2010.07.10

On April twenty-sixth, his army laid down its weapons.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

Without mentioning the issue specifically, he restated the philosophy he had laid out in Thursday's speech on national security.

VOA: standard.2009.05.22

On the ground, it meant that the company laid off forest wardens to cut costs.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

On a less positive note, the number of newly laid off Americans seeking unemployment benefits totaled 551,000 last week, up from 534,000 the previous week.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

Before leaving the Pentagon, General Xu laid a wreath at the memorial to the 184 people killed in the attack on the building on September 11,2001.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27