lap /læp/ CET4 TEM4 ( lapping, lapped, laps )

• 1. 

  N-COUNT If you have something on your lap when you are sitting down, it is on top of your legs and near to your body. (人坐着时的) 大腿部

  例：

  She waited quietly with her hands in her lap.

  她双手放在大腿上静静地等候。

• 2. 

  N-COUNT In a race, a competitor completes a lap when they have gone around a course once. (跑道的) 一圈

  例：

  ...that last lap of the race.

  …比赛的最后一圈。

• 3. 

  V-T In a race, if you lap another competitor, you go past them while they are still on the previous lap. 比…领先一圈

  例：

  He then built a 10-bike lead before lapping his first rider on lap 14.

  他领先了10辆自行车的距离，然后在第14圈又超过了前一个车手一圈。

• 4. 

  N-COUNT A lap of a long journey is one part of it, between two points where you stop. 一段行程

  例：

  I had thought we might travel as far as Oak Valley, but we only managed the first lap of the journey.

  我原以为我们可以到达橡树谷，但是我们仅仅完成了行程的第一段。

• 5. 

  V-I When water laps against something such as the shore or the side of a boat, it touches it gently and makes a soft sound. 轻拍 [书面]

  例：

  ...the water that lapped against the pillars of the boathouse.

  …水轻拍着船屋的柱子。

  例：

  With a rising tide the water was lapping at his chin before rescuers arrived.

  在救生员到达之前，上涨的潮水打着了他的下巴。

• 6. 

  lapping N-UNCOUNT 轻拍

  例：

  The only sound was the lapping of the waves.

  惟一的声音是浪涛的拍打声。

• 7. 

  N the act or sound of lapping 拍打; 拍打声

• 8. 

  V-T When an animal laps a drink, it uses short quick movements of its tongue to take liquid up into its mouth. (动物) 舐食

  例：

  It lapped milk from a dish.

  它从一个盘子里舐食牛奶。

• 9. 

  PHRASAL VERB Lap up means the same as . 舐食

  例：

  She poured some water into a plastic bowl. Faust, her Great Dane, lapped it up with relish.

  她往一个塑料碗里倒了些水，她的丹麦大狗福斯特津津有味地舐食起来。