释义 |
stand at bayTurn to face one’s pursuers: she will be doomed to stand at bay...- They could continue to exercise but again there is a relationship between behavioural responses, they turn and stand at bay as a defensive posture.
- Leaving our panting steeds, we made a simultaneous rush on the boar, as he stood at bay in the water.
- Sometimes we had to stand at bay but the engagement never lasted more than a few hours.
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