英语释义

1. to lie in wait for or attack (someone) from ambush
… he had been waylaid, bound hand and foot, and thrown into a marsh. But he got out again, somehow, to cause a great deal of trouble yet.
— Charles Dickens

2. to temporarily stop the movement or progress of (someone or something)
The barkeeper, Tony, would come out of his saloon and wait to waylay the men going home. He could always entice a man with a full pocket into his saloon.
— Meridel Le Sueur I can get waylaid by tangential thoughts and associations in mid-sentence, and this leads to parentheses, subordinate clauses, sentences of paragraphic length. I never use one adjective if six seem to me better and, in their cumulative effect, more incisive.
— Oliver Sacks

3. to stop (someone who is going somewhere)

4. to attack (someone or something) by surprise from a hidden place

5. to attack from hiding

片语

ambushed中埋伏的

英汉例句

• She waylaid me in the corridor and asked if she could speak to me in private.

  她在走廊里截住了我，问我她是否可以私下同我谈谈。

• In orbit over the desert planet, the ship was waylaid by Separatist P-38 starfighters, and crashed into the Dune Sea.

  在这颗沙漠星球的轨道上，「黄昏号」遭到了分离主义p - 38星际战斗机的伏击，迫降在沙丘之海。

• The patrol was waylaid by bandits.

  巡逻队遭到土匪伏击。

• In Iran, gunmen posing as police officers waylaid 4 cars and killed 12 passengers.

  在伊朗，持枪歹徒伪装成警官伏击了四辆汽车，造成十二名乘客身亡。

• It is well known, for example, that Newton solved many of his toughest problems when his attention was waylaid by private musings.

  比如，众所周知，牛顿的很多最困难的问题都是他的注意力被个人的遐想打断时解决的。

• In Iran, gunmen posing as its police officer waylaid four cars and killed 12 passengers.

  在伊朗，数名冒充警察的持枪的歹徒拦劫了四辆小汽车，并且杀死了12名乘客。

• He waylaid her on her way home and demand Ed her wages.

  他在她回家的路上伏击了她，让她把工资交出来。

• En route to Tatooine, the Millennium Falcon was waylaid by a pirate force commanded by Crimson Jack.

  不料千年隼在半路遭到伏击，被红发杰克率领的海盗船抢劫。

• The way they see it, the Chinese were waylaid on a 200-year detour as the West surged ahead, but they「re coming back to their rightful place.

  他们认为，尽管自己走了200年的弯路，而西方国家则一直在前进，但是他们又重回正确的道路。

• It is ell known, for example, that Newton solved many of his toughest problems when his attention was waylaid by private musings.

  例如，众所周知，牛顿在其注意力被个人深思打断时解决了许多棘手的难题。

• The Temptress Devil, who waylaid lonely wayfarers.

  这些形容词均有「孤单的，寂寞的」之意。

• This is what the Lord Almighty says: 」I will punish the Amalekites for what they did to Israel when they waylaid them as they came up from Egypt.

  万军之耶和华如此说：以色列人出埃及的时候，在路上亚玛力人怎样对待他们，怎样抵挡他们，我都没忘。

• Knowing at what time his wife did her shopping, one day, unable any longer to bear not seeing her, he waylaid her in the street.

  他知道他的妻子每天什么时候出去买东西，有一天，迫不及待地想见到她，便在街上把她拦住。

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