lap

1. N-COUNT If you have something on your lap when you are sitting down, it is on top of your legs and near to your body. (人坐著時的) 大腿部

She waited quietly with her hands in her lap. 她雙手放在大腿上靜靜地等候。

2. N-COUNT In a race, a competitor completes a lap when they have gone around a course once. (跑道的) 一圈

...that last lap of the race. …比賽的最後一圈。

3. V-T In a race, if you lap another competitor, you go past them while they are still on the previous lap. 比…領先一圈

He then built a 10-bike lead before lapping his first rider on lap 14. 他領先了10輛自行車的距離，然後在第14圈又超過了前一個車手一圈。

4. N-COUNT A lap of a long journey is one part of it, between two points where you stop. 一段行程

I had thought we might travel as far as Oak Valley, but we only managed the first lap of the journey. 我原以爲我們可以到達橡樹穀，但是我們僅僅完成了行程的第一段。

5. V-I When water laps against something such as the shore or the side of a boat, it touches it gently and makes a soft sound. 輕拍[書麪]

...the water that lapped against the pillars of the boathouse. …水輕拍著船屋的柱子。

With a rising tide the water was lapping at his chin before rescuers arrived. 在救生員到達之前，上漲的潮水打著了他的下巴。

6. lappingN-UNCOUNT 輕拍

The only sound was the lapping of the waves. 惟一的聲音是浪濤的拍打聲。

7. N the act or sound of lapping 拍打; 拍打聲

8. V-T When an animal laps a drink, it uses short quick movements of its tongue to take liquid up into its mouth. (動物) 舐食

It lapped milk from a dish. 它從一個磐子裡舐食牛嬭。

9. PHRASAL VERB Lap up means the same as . 舐食

She poured some water into a plastic bowl. Faust, her Great Dane, lapped it up with relish. 她往一個塑料碗裡倒了些水，她的丹麥大狗福斯特津津有味地舐食起來。