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

• After the fight, the beholder takes the statue to its lair as a decoration.
  战斗结束后，眼魔将雕像带回巢穴当装饰品。
• And he has a secret lair, and it's really dark and scary!
  而且他有一个秘密基地，那里很黑很吓人！
• The village was once a pirates 'lair.
  这个村子曾一度是海盗藏匿之处。
• How can you catch tiger cubs without entering the tiger's lair?; Nothing venture, nothing have.
  不入虎穴，焉得虎子？
• 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。
• We stalked the wounded tiger to its lair.
  我们跟踪受伤的老虎到它的兽穴。
• I retired to my lair, and wrote some letters.
  我回到自己休息的地方，写了几封信。
• A wounded wolf lay recovering in his lair.
  受伤的狼躺在自己的巢穴里养伤。
• For his lair he had the sewer of the arche-marion.
  他的窝在马利容桥拱的暗沟里。
• Proceed, hero, into Terror's lair.
  前进，英雄，进入恐怖的巢穴。