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Who are you to lay down the law to me?

你有什么资格对我发号施令？

I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.

我有权柄舍了，也有权柄取回来的话是真的了。

The realization had come to her slowly; the Queen was a lay figure, lacking even the power to dismiss a maid-of-honour without the King's approval.

她逐渐地意识到；王后是个傀儡，没有国王的同意，她甚至连辞退女仆的权利都没有。

Therefore, we have to learn English, in order to lay a solid foundation for the future.

所以我们要学好英语，为将来打下坚实的基础。

Before I come to work I want to know the lay of the land.

在买股票之前，他想检查一下有关股票的一些重要情况。

She was trying to get the lay of the land, not to get herself laid.

她不过是在努力搞清楚当前的形式和方位，而不是让别人把自己搞定。

The manager said that he would like us to go to new jersey and get the lay of the land there before deciding on the investment.

经理说他想让我们先去新泽西州了解一下那里的情况，然后再决定投资的事。

I can lay off anything you want me to if you agree to have sex with me.

我全听你的，只要你同意和我亲热的话。

Lay off! I don't need you to tell me what to do.

别再念 了！我不需要你告诉我怎么做！

Example: Lay off! I don't need you to tell me what to do!

别再讲了！我不需要你告诉我怎么去做！

We have no common name for a mime of Sophron or Xenarchus and a Socratic Conversation; and we should still be without one even if the imitation in the two instances were in trimeters or elegiacs or some other kind of verse--though it is the way with people to tack on 'poet' to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in.

索夫农 、森那库斯和苏格拉底式的对话采用的模仿没有一个公共的名称；三音步诗、挽歌体或其他类型的诗的模仿也没有——人们把&诗人&这一名词和格律名称结合到一起，称之为挽歌体诗人或者史诗诗人，他们被称为诗人，似乎只是因为遵守格律写作，而非他们作品的模仿本质。

The relationship between communicative competence and grammar teaching should be that of the ends and the means.

交际能力和语法的关系应该是目标与途径的关系。