Laid是什么意思？

But the store manger laid the evil eye on us.

However, this is the first time a panel has been designed to be laid directly on top of existing roads and the first project to install the panels on public highways.

Later working together in London, they laid the foundations of modern physics by showing that normal laws of cause and effect do not apply at the level of subatomic particles.

Last year, Andrea's husband, Rick, a miner in Nevada was laid off.

fighting back the tears, he spoke proudly of the fact that he had built their home from the ground up, and that he had pounded every nail and laid every brick in the process.

He laid off several hundred workers; especially hard hit were the blue- and pink-collar departments such as subscription fulfillment.

That is because the engineers, designers, regulators, operators, and all of the other skilled people needed for the new energy industry are specialists who have to be trained first or retrained, if they are the ones being laid off in some related industry

Unfortunately, the union in Chicago is insisting that teachers who are laid off—often for being ineffective—should get priority in new hiring.