lay into

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To beat up or launch an attack against; to strike forcefully. colloquial
    — A very spirited affair it looked with its red body and yellow wheels, bouncing about on its high C springs [...] with its four horses going full stretch and two postilions in knee-cords and top-boots laying into the horses in a lather of dust and excitement.
  2. To berate; to scold. colloquial,figuratively
    — Indeed, after laying into Volodymyr Zelensky, the embattled president of an embattled Ukraine, in the Oval Office last year, Mr. Trump noted with satisfaction that “this is going to be great television.”
  3. To start eating voraciously. colloquial
    — I'm gonna lay into that ice cream later tonight.

词形变化

lays into present,singular,third-person laying into participle,present laid into participle,past laid into past
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