at bay 详细解释

at bay

陷入困境

英英释义

形容词 at bay:

forced to turn and face attackers

同义词:cornered, trapped, treed

例句

1. The soldiers kept the attackers at bay. [=they did not allow the attackers to come closer]士兵们使进攻者无法靠近。 2. "Armed with a gun, he held the police at bay [=he did not allow the police to arrest him] for 10 hours."由于有枪,他与警方僵持了10个小时。 3. "Although the doctors had been able to keep her illness at bay [=to prevent her illness from becoming worse] for a few months, the disease soon began to spread again."尽管医生将她的病情控制住了几个月,可疾病不久又开始扩散了。