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单词 to lie down
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to lie down
to lie down
1. (Middle English also lie adown.) See sense 2 and down adv. 2a. Also reflexive (now archaic). Also in pregnant senses: †To fall in battle; †to die; to go to bed; to give up; to be remiss or lazy.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > bed related to sleep or rest > go to bed or retire to rest [verb (intransitive)]
to go to (one's) resteOE
to take (one's) restc1175
to go to bedc1275
to lie downc1275
reposec1485
down-lie1505
bed1635
to turn in1695
retire1696
lay1768
to go to roost1829
to turn or peak the flukes1851
kip1889
doss1896
to hit the hay1912
to hit the deck1918
to go down1922
to bunk down1940
to hit the sack1943
to sack out1946
to sack down1956
the world > life > death > killing > killing by specific method > be killed [verb (intransitive)] > be killed in battle
to lie downc1275
the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of lying down or reclining > lie down or recline [verb (intransitive)] > lie down or assume reclining position
layc1175
to lie downc1275
liec1330
stretch1828
the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > be slothful or lazy [verb (intransitive)]
sleuthc1300
sloth1390
slotter1553
sloven1560
truant1580
drone1632
slubberc1820
sluggardize1837
to lie down1918
to dick off1948
schlump1953
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 3421 Seoððen he dun læi [c1300 Otho deaȝede].
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 1145 Þe romeins leie sone adoun; he made ampti place, & þe brutons arise vaste.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 2204 Oþer ligge adoun & be aslawe.
1340–70 Alex. & Dind. 446 We liggen down in our den.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 10711 Þan lai þai all in kneling dun.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. ii. 21 So, lig down ther and take thi rest.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ruth iii. (Contents) Ruth lyeth her downe in the barne at Boos fete.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. xi. B The leoparde shal lye downe by the gote.
a1631 J. Donne Poems (1650) 17 Why should we rise, because 'tis light? Did we lie downe, because 'twas night?
a1777 S. Foote Cozeners (1778) iii. ii. 73 Mrs. Air. Pray, madam, is the young lady at home? Mrs. Fl. Just lain down for a little.
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. ii. 26 They..rose early and lay down late.
1847 F. Marryat Children of New Forest I. iv. 62 There may be another [stag] lying down in the fern close to us.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xvi. 113 I lay down and had five minutes sleep.
1861 G. W. Dasent tr. Story Burnt Njal II. 312 Kari lay him down.
1904 W. H. Smith Promoters i. 21 When they finally lie down, we'll just say, ‘All right, we'll go ahead alone.’
1916 Literary Digest 8 Jan. 87/1 It is natural enough that the accusation of ‘lying down’ and quitting has been cast up in turn at each of the participants in the conference.
1918 E. Pound Let. 3 Apr. (1971) 134 It is the best that can be done. Hope Kahn won't think I am lying down on the job.
1926 J. Black You can't Win xiv. 193 An ambitious fighting young lawyer who never ‘laid down’ on a client.
2. To be brought to bed of a child. Obsolete.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > be confined [verb]
to lie inc1440
to lie downa1500
to bring abed1523
to be confined1772
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin v. 89 The kynge sawgh that the quene was redy to ly down.
1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) Ep. Ded. sig. Aiiv Of the seconde I went a whole yeare big, and yet when euery one thought mee ready to lye downe, I did then quicken.
1620 J. Pyper tr. H. d'Urfé Hist. Astrea i. vi. 171 His wife lay downe, but it was of a daughter.
1654 tr. M. Martini Bellum Tartaricum 212 Matrons with Child and ready to lye down.
1692 R. L'Estrange Fables (1708) xxii. 29 A Wolf came to a Sow that was just lying down, and very kindly offer'd to take care of her Litter.
1818 W. Godwin in C. K. Paul William Godwin (1876) II. 256 He says..that Eliza was expected to lie down in two days after he sailed.
3. Of an army: To take up a position before.
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society > armed hostility > attack > action or state of siege or blockade > lay siege [verb (intransitive)]
to lay ensiege?a1500
to plant a siegea1500
to sit down1593
inleaguer1603
to set downa1616
to lie down1693
sit1802
1693 tr. J. Le Clerc Mem. Count Teckely i. 82 This obliged Heister to demand Cannon and Foot, with whom he lay down before the Castle of Kus.
4. to take (a beating, defeat, etc.) lying down: to receive it with abject submission.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > absence of resistance > offer no resistance [verb (intransitive)]
to turn the other cheek1529
to go down like ninepins1791
to take (a beating, defeat, etc.) lying down1888
to take (something) sitting down1899
1888 Sat. Rev. 4 Aug. 133/1 Those who..profess themselves willing to take, ‘lying down’, any and every inconvenience that the victorious Irish may inflict.
1914 G. B. Shaw Androcles & Lion (1916) i. 17 You know, I should feel ashamed if I let myself be struck like that, and took it lying down.
1931 E. F. Benson Mapp & Lucia viii. 229 She had to swallow her medicine... I had no idea.. that she would take it lying down like that.
1974 M. Gilbert Flash Point viii. 64 I heard what the beak said to you. I had an idea you weren't going to take it lying down.
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