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lap

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ldoce_194_blap1 /læp/ ●●○ noun [countableC]
1  HBHthe upper part of your legs when you are sitting down 〔坐着時的〕大腿部 SYN knee
on somebody’s lap
Shannon sat on her mother’s lap.
香農坐在她媽媽的腿上。
in somebody’s lap
His hands were folded in his lap.
他雙手合攏，放在腿上。
→5  See picture of Shannon sat on her mother's lap. 香農坐在她媽媽的腿上。
2  AROUND/ROUNDa single journey around a race track 〔跑道的〕一圈
Rubens Barrichello finished a lap ahead of his team-mate.
魯本斯·巴裏切羅領先隊友一圈跑完全程。
lap of honour British EnglishBrE, victory lap American EnglishAmE (=a lap to celebrate winning) 〔優勝者的〕繞場一周
The entire team took a victory lap in front of their cheering fans.
全隊在歡呼的球迷面前繞場一周慶祝勝利。
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3  American EnglishAmE a single journey from one end of a swimming pool to another 〔遊泳池的〕一趟遊程
do/run/swim a lap
Every morning she swims 50 laps in the pool.
她每天早上都會在遊泳池裏來回遊50趟。
4  TRAVELa part of a long journey 長途旅行中的一段 SYN leg
lap of
The last lap of their journey was by ship.
他們旅程的最後一段是坐船。
5  in the lap of luxury COMFORTABLEhaving an easy and comfortable life with a lot of money, possessions etc 生活優裕的，養尊處優的
She wasn’t used to living in the lap of luxury.
她不習慣養尊處優。
Examples from the Corpus
in the lap of luxury• And has been keeping him in the lap of luxury, hasn't he, all this time.• It should ensure your pet lives in the lap of luxury - without risking a legal challenge.• Fido too is living in the lap of luxury in pet-crazy Britain.• Last week Katie Wood was living in the lap of luxury up in Wick.• Whilst the interior allows you to sit in the lap of luxury.
6. in the lap of the gods British EnglishBrENOT KNOW if the result of something is in the lap of the gods, you do not know what will happen because it depends on things you cannot control 在神的掌控之中，難以預料
Examples from the Corpus
lap• Every morning she swims fifty laps in the pool.• She put her fists into her lap and crouched in her chair, the way people die in sparsely furnished rooms.• Robyn sat on the floor by the fire, with her plate on her lap, and tucked in.• Dorothea sat at his feet, her head in his lap.• From a three-hour flight, at the outside, when he'd only flown from London to Helsinki on the last lap?• She turned and leaned back into my lap, her shirt falling open.• I pulled the covers up over my lap.• With one lap to go in the race, Petty's car blew a tire.• Shannon sat on her mother's lap and smiled for the camera.
lap of honour• Harbury was doing what Holly would call a lap of honour, circling the room saying goodbyes.• His lap of honour was a painful affair, taken at a walk.• Draped in the union flag, he took what must be the slowest lap of honour in history.• It was the sort of distance that Olympic sprinters can cover in less than a minute on their lap of honour.
do/run/swim a lap• The losing team-players and coaches-must run laps.• He would run a lap and would become too fatigued to continue.
last lap ... journey• The only thing that kept me going on the last lap of the journey was the rhythm of my steps.
lap2 verb (lapped, lapping)
1  [intransitiveI, transitiveT]LIQUID if water laps something or laps against something such as the shore or a boat, it moves against it or hits it in small waves 〔波浪〕輕輕拍打，沖刷
lap against/over etc
The waves lapped gently against the rocks.
波浪輕輕地拍打岩石。
The tide was lapping the harbour wall.
潮水拍打着港口的防汛牆。
2. lap.jpg (also lap up) [transitiveT]DRINK if an animal laps water, milk etc, it drinks it by putting its tongue into it 〔動物〕舔飲
3  [transitiveT]PASS A TEST to pass a competitor in a race who is one complete lap behind you 領先〔另一競賽者〕一圈
Erik Gomas spun off the track when trying to lap Andrew Scott.
埃裏克·科馬斯試圖領先安德魯·斯科特一圈時失控沖出賽道。
4 lap something ↔ up phrasal verbphr v 
a) ENJOY/LIKE DOING somethingto enjoy something without worrying about whether it is good, true etc 〔不分好壞、真假地〕欣然接受
She’s lapping up all the attention she’s getting.
對於大家的關心，她照單全收。
The humour was lapped up by an appreciative crowd.
有欣賞力的聽衆愛聽這樣的幽默。
b) if an animal laps up water, milk etc, it drinks it by putting its tongue into it 〔動物〕舔飲
The cat began to lap up the milk.
貓咪開始舔食牛奶。
Examples from the Corpus
lap up• Fred, typically, was lapping it up.• It does sound silly at this distance of time, but then, green as grass, I lapped it all up.• Probably she would lap it up.• This was a most enjoyable set, with the orchestra obviously delighting in the direction and the audience lapping it up.• Francis and Christopher dissolved in laughter, lapped theirs up and declared it very good.• Induk laps it up, her tongue following the meandering trails.• Last week Katie Wood was living in the lap of luxury up in Wick.• Naturally, I can resist anything but flattery and lapped it up like a hungry cat does milk.
—lapping noun [uncountableU]
She could hear the soft lapping of the sea.
她能聽到海浪輕柔的拍打聲。
Examples from the Corpus
lap• The floodwaters were lapping at the sides.• I lapped at the warm, rich blood; very nice, very fresh.• Senna lapped everyone in the San Marino Grand Prix.• This morning the water was clear and silvery, chuckling a little as it lapped over the smooth, oval, brown stones.• Patrese lapped the 2.7-mile circuit at 128 mph.• Perhaps he can borrow a reptile to perch next to him and lap up his tears as they fall.• The gun lapped up snow and vegetation with a blow-torch thirty feet long.• Not surprisingly, it is a comparison that the Bush people lap up with delight.• Ice cream is one food that most kids lap up without hesitation.
lap against/over etc• No one could have asked for a better final lap over the 1. 527-mile oval at Homestead, Fla.• Below his window, the new spring water softly lapped against the rocks.• The white blanket rolled down the hillside and lapped over the roofs of the dwelling and outbuildings of the little farm.• Eventually he went to sleep to the sound of little waves lapping against the sea-wall.• This morning the water was clear and silvery, chuckling a little as it lapped over the smooth, oval, brown stones.• The waves which lapped over the stern of the raft were our waste-disposal system.• The rolls of fat around his waist lap over the top of his belt.
Origin lap1
1. Old English læppa
2. (1800-1900) → LAP2
3. in the earlier meaning “to run a single time round a track”
 lap2
1. Old English lapian
2. (1200-1300) Probably from → LAP11 in the earlier meaning “fold, piece of cloth”
lap1 nounlap2 verb
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