lair

• n. （野兽的）[动] 巢穴；躲藏处
• vi. 进入兽穴；在穴中休息
• vt. 使陷入泥潭；放于穴中
• n. (Lair)人名；(英、法)莱尔

来自古英语leger, 床，躺下，放置，词源同lager,lay.引申词义兽穴，避难所。拼写比较fair.

1. the habitation of wild animals

lair

lair: [OE] Etymologically a lair is a place where you ‘lie’ down. For it comes ultimately from the same Germanic base, *leg-, as produced English lie. In Old English it had a range of meanings, from ‘bed’ to ‘grave’, which are now defunct, and the modern sense ‘place where an animal lives’ did not emerge until the 15th century. Related Germanic forms show different patterns of semantic development: Dutch leger, for instance, means ‘bed’ and ‘camp’ (it has given English beleaguer [16] and, via Afrikaans, laager [19]) and German lager (source of English lager) means ‘bed’, ‘camp’, and ‘storeroom’. Layer in the sense ‘stratum’ [17] (which to begin with was a culinary term) may have originated as a variant of lair.
=> beleaguer, laager, lager, lay, layer, lie

lair (n.)

Old English leger "bed, couch, grave; act or place of lying down," from Proto-Germanic *legraz (cognates: Old Norse legr "grave," also "nuptials" ("a lying down"); Old Frisian leger "situation," Old Saxon legar "bed," Middle Dutch legher "act or place of lying down," Dutch leger "bed, camp," Old High German legar "bed, a lying down," German Lager "bed, lair, camp, storehouse," Gothic ligrs "place of lying"), from PIE *legh- "to lie, lay" (see lie (v.2)). Meaning "animal's den" is from early 15c.

...a fox's lair.

狐狸窝

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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。

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The village was once a pirates' lair.

这个村子曾一度是海盗藏匿之处。

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A wolf had been badly wounded by dogs. He lay sick and maimed in his lair.

狼被狗所咬,伤势很严重, 痛苦地躺在巢穴里,不能外出觅食.

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Well, maybe one last nap in the lair.

好的, 或许在窝里最后小睡一下.

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A lair of illegal activities conducting forged documents was destroyed by the police.

一个办理假证的黑窝被警方端掉.

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Then one day, Maurice, a poor inventor, accidentally stumbled upon the Beast's lair.

然后有一天, 莫里斯, 一个可怜的发明家, 偶然发现那兽的巢穴.

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We should destroy the lair at one stroke and wipe out the bandits.

我们要一举捣毁这处窟穴,把土匪一网打尽!

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Halt! Before venturing into Diablo's lair, go to the Hellforge with Mephisto's Soulstone.

停下! 在冒险进入迪亚波罗的巢穴之前, 先带着墨菲斯托的灵魂之石前往地狱熔炉.

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In the farthest corner of the cave was the wolf's lair.

洞内远处一个角落是狼窝.

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A hint ? Mount Kajaro representsa good atmosphere for a Deathwing Lair.

卡加罗火山为死亡之翼建立巢穴提供了良好的氛围.

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When in another's lair, show him respect or else do not go there.

身处他人的地盘须表示尊重,否则不要去那里.

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Pierre was not aware of the bear lair.

皮埃尔不知道窝里有熊.

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One morning when a vixen was taking her babies out of the lair, she saw a lioness and her cub.

一天清早,雌狐狸带着她的孩子走出巢穴, 看见了母狮子和她的孩子.

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The lair of a burrowing animal.

一只藏在窝里的狼.

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Epic Odyssey: Explore huge locations like a dragon ? s lair and mysterious catacombs.

奥德赛: 探索想一条龙穴和神秘的地下墓穴一样的巨大地形?

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Begin from 2008, video shared a website be immersed in the lair of tort lawsuit.

从2008年开始, 视频分享网站陷入了侵权诉讼的泥潭.

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Main Idea: You can't catch tiger cubs without taking the risk of entering tiger's lair.

格言大意: 不冒险进入虎穴,就得不到小老虎.

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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.

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How can you catch tiger cubs without entering the tiger's lair?

不入虎穴,焉得虎子?

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The lair of a wild animal, such as a fox.

窝野生动物(如狐狸)的穴 、 窝.

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The police tracked the thieves to their lair.

警察跟踪小偷找到他们的巢穴.

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The spirit of the book is our lair, the source of life.

书是我们精神的巢穴, 生命的源泉.

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Kratos finally escapes from Typhon's lair and finds his new destination across the horizon.

终于,奎托斯从提丰的巢穴逃了出来,他新的目的地就在远方的地平线上.

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The giant, native to Endor, captured Jeremitt and Caterine , and took them to his mountain lair.

这个恩多土著族巨人抓起杰里米特和卡特琳, 带回了山区的洞穴里.

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I retired to my lair, and wrote some letters.

我回到自己休息的地方, 写了几封信.

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A wounded wolf lay recovering in his lair.

受伤的狼躺在自己的巢穴里养伤.

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She prowled the lair of the Guest House.

她在宾馆的秘密会议室里往返徘徊.

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The next morning, Crimson flew out from his lair towards the city of Kith'tarka.

第二天一早, 克里森就离开了自己的巢穴向着姬斯·塔卡城飞去.

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