lie_doggo
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lie doggo(第三人称单数简单现在时 lies doggo,现在分词 lying doggo,过去式 lay doggo,过去分词 lain doggo)
- (俚语) 安静地躺着,以免被发现;静候时机
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, ch. 15
- "Do you think he's done something that we don't know about, and is lying doggo on account of the police?"
- 1924, Rudyard Kipling, "The Janeites"
- ... if we lay doggo where we was, Jerry might miss us ...
- 1946: Rebecca West, "Greenhouse with Cyclamens I," in A Train of Powder, pp. 56-7
- They had tricked and turned and doubled on their tracks and lain doggo at the right time all their lives, which their white hairs showed had not been brief; and they had done it this time too.
- 1984年12月17日,Brown,Craig,“Lucan Everywhere”,出自 New York,卷号17,期号50, ISSN 0028-7369, 页号28:
- "I will lie doggo for a bit," wrote the seventh earl of Lucan to a family friend shortly after he had murdered his children's nanny, mistaking her, in the dark, for his wife. That was ten years ago, and the earl — dead or alive — has lain doggo ever since.
- (请为本引文添加中文翻译)
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 710:
- We appreciate your need to lie doggo for a bit.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, ch. 15
近义词
- lie low
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