lay low

基本解釋

In the financial and economic crises, we have watched jobs disappear, nest eggs shrink, home values plunge, foreclosures zoom upward and banks lay low.
在這經(jīng)濟財政危機之際，我們目睹工作消失、存款減少、房價猛跌、拍賣房子猛增以及銀行相繼倒閉。
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.
在法國大革命時期，活躍于政界的利德凱爾克-波弗特家族不得不離開自己的城堡，去一處附近的農(nóng)場避避風頭。
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.
悍馬體型龐大，正象征著在一定程度上致使美國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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