lair

英 [leə(r)]

美 [ler]

n.  兽穴; 兽窝; (人的)藏身处，躲藏处，独居处

复数：lairs　

GRE

BNC.19267 / COCA.17399

牛津词典

noun

• 兽穴；兽窝
  a place where a wild animal sleeps or hides
• （人的）藏身处，躲藏处，独居处
  a place where sb goes to hide or to be alone

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 兽穴；兽窝；巢穴
  Alairis a place where a wild animal lives, usually a place which is underground or well-hidden.
  1. ...a fox's lair.
     狐狸窝
• N-COUNT 藏匿之所；隐避之处；（尤指）独居处
  Someone'slairis the particular room or hiding place that they go to, especially when they want to get away from other people.
  1. Green recounts how he once went to see Bremner in his lair...
     格林讲述他有一次去布雷姆纳隐居之处看他的经历。
  2. The village was once a pirates' lair.
     这个村子曾一度是海盗藏匿之处。

英英释义

noun

• the habitation of wild animals
  Synonym:den

双语例句

• If a guest in your lair annoys you, treat him cruelly and without mercy.
  如因一个客己在你的天盘惹恼了你，不要善良，要仁慈天看待他。
• Proceed, hero, into Terror's lair.
  前进，英雄，进入恐怖的巢穴。
• "We are done for," the bandits cried. He went to the bandits 'lair all by himself!
  土匪们叫道：我们完了他独自一人闯了土匪窝。
• They must have taken all the equipment to dracula's lair.
  他们肯定把所有的装备带到德古拉的老巢去了。
• If a giant had filtered this cesspool, he would have had the riches of centuries in his lair.
  一个巨人如果用筛子去滤这些污泥，便可在他的筛中得到几世纪的财富。
• He had there, it was said, a sort of field, a hole, a lair.
  据说他在那里有一块地、一个土洞，一个窝巢。
• Green recounts how he once went to see Bremner in his lair
  格林讲述他有一次去布雷姆纳隐居之处看他的经历。
• It's a female returning to her lair.
  这是一只雌性正返回她的巢穴。
• For his lair he had the sewer of the arche-marion.
  他的窝在马利容桥拱的暗沟里。
• We stalked the wounded tiger to its lair.
  我们跟踪受伤的老虎到它的兽穴。