lay low

基本解释

In the financial and economic crises, we have watched jobs disappear, nest eggs shrink, home values plunge, foreclosures zoom upward and banks lay low.
在这经济财政危机之际，我们目睹工作消失、存款减少、房价猛跌、拍卖房子猛增以及银行相继倒闭。
During the French Revolution the politically active Liedekerke-Beaufort family had to leave their castle and move to a nearby farm to lay low and await theaftermath.
在法国大革命时期，活跃于政界的利德凯尔克-波弗特家族不得不离开自己的城堡，去一处附近的农场避避风头。
It would be hard to imagine a more potent icon of consumerism without a conscience than the hulking Hummer, symbol of the greed-over-green ways that have helped to lay America low.
悍马体型庞大，正象征着在一定程度上致使美国陷入低迷的高能耗方式。

People driving during a tornado are told to find low ground and lay flat,facedown, with their hands covering their head.

But after that plan failed, he developed a new strategy: to lay low.
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He's undecided on who he'll vote for, but Elder does say he questions Giuliani's strategy to lay low in the early estates, focusing so much on Florida.
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