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单词 at lair
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at lair
b. for beasts of chase or of prey. at lair: in his or their lair.
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the world > animals > by habitat > habitat > [noun] > dwelling place or shelter
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1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie xxxvii. 99 When a Hart hath fed..& wil not go to his layre..he lyeth downe vpon his belly.
1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. I3 All the nimble Citizens of the Wood betooke them to their Laire.
1626 N. Breton Fantasticks sig. B2 The stately Hart is at Layre in the high wood.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 457 Out of the ground up rose As from his Laire the wilde Beast. View more context for this quotation
1735 W. Somervile Chace iii. 294 Fierce from his Lair springs forth the speckled Pard.
1840 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VII. lv. 96 They were hunted like wild beasts into their lairs.
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise I. ii. 535 In that forest was the lair Of a great boar.
figurative and in extended use.1814 Ld. Byron Lara ii. ix. 899 He had hoped quiet in his sullen lair.1860 W. Collins Woman in White iii. viii. 383 I had stirred in its lair the serpent-hatred of years.1871 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David II. Ps. xxxii. 6 Before the great devouring floods leap forth from their lairs.
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