lair

英 [leə(r)]

美 [ler]

n.  兽穴; 兽窝; (人的)藏身处，躲藏处，独居处

复数：lairs　

GRE

BNC.19267 / COCA.17399

牛津词典

noun

• 兽穴；兽窝
  a place where a wild animal sleeps or hides
• （人的）藏身处，躲藏处，独居处
  a place where sb goes to hide or to be alone

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 兽穴；兽窝；巢穴
  Alairis a place where a wild animal lives, usually a place which is underground or well-hidden.
  1. ...a fox's lair.
     狐狸窝
• N-COUNT 藏匿之所；隐避之处；（尤指）独居处
  Someone'slairis the particular room or hiding place that they go to, especially when they want to get away from other people.
  1. Green recounts how he once went to see Bremner in his lair...
     格林讲述他有一次去布雷姆纳隐居之处看他的经历。
  2. The village was once a pirates' lair.
     这个村子曾一度是海盗藏匿之处。

英英释义

noun

• the habitation of wild animals
  Synonym:den

双语例句

• The police tracked the thieves to their lair.
  警察跟踪小偷找到他们的巢穴。
• I retired to my lair, and wrote letters.
  我同到我的住处写信。
• "We are done for," the bandits cried. He went to the bandits 'lair all by himself!
  土匪们叫道：我们完了他独自一人闯了土匪窝。
• Seasoned investigator Yang Zirong ( Zhang Hanyu) volunteered to go undercover in the bandits 'lair.
  其中，经验丰富的侦查员杨子荣（张涵予饰）主动请缨去土匪窝中担任卧底。
• He went to the bandits 'lair all by himself!
  他独自一人闯了土匪窝。
• Destroy the cavern Ignorance and you destroy the lair Crime.
  摧毁这个无知窟窖，那罪恶渊薮也就毁灭掉了。
• How can you catch tiger cubs without entering the tiger's lair?; Nothing venture, nothing have.
  不入虎穴，焉得虎子？
• For his lair he had the sewer of the arche-marion.
  他的窝在马利容桥拱的暗沟里。
• I don't think he leapt from a lair.
  我不认为他从藏身的地方跳出来。
• We should destroy the lair at one stroke and wipe out the bandits.
  我们要一举捣毁这处窟穴，把土匪一网打尽！