N-COUNT If you say that someone is a layabout, you disapprove of them because they do not work and you think they are lazy. 游手好闲的人 [表不满]
They lay about the deck growling together in talk.
他们聚在甲板上纷纷议论着。
Someone might walk out on a stage and say, "In fair Verona where we lay our scene!" and then tell all about the feuding families of Romeo and Juliet.
可能会有人走到舞台上，说：“在美丽的维罗纳，我们的故事在这里发生！”，然后讲述关于罗密欧与朱丽叶两家不和的所有故事。
"I think he will lay out clearly what health reform means to Americans, and I think he will clear up any confusion about what is not in health care reform,"
VOA: standard.2009.09.08
Roger Smith,a co-founder of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, says many Turks refuse to use the word 'genocide.' "I worked with some Turkish scholars and these are people who would be considered liberals and so on - but even they really kind of shy away from using the word 'genocide.' They will talk about massacres - you lay all of these things out and they say yeah,yeah,yeah, this happened,okay - well no,I don't want to use that word.
VOA: standard.2010.03.19
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