In the library, the books on history are all kept in one bay. 在图书馆里,历史方面的书都放在同一隔间里。
The hounds were baying as they followed the escaped prisoner. 猎狗在追赶逃犯时不时地咆哮着。
He painted the picturesque fishing village in the bay. 他画了海湾里一个风景如画的渔村。
bay
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an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf
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the sound of a hound on the scent
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small Mediterranean evergreen tree with small blackish berries and glossy aromatic leaves used for flavoring in cooking; also used by ancient Greeks to crown victors
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a compartment on a ship between decks; often used as a hospital
<noun.artifact> they put him in the sick bay
a compartment in an aircraft used for some specific purpose
(used of animals especially a horse) of a moderate reddish-brown color
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Bay \Bay\ (b[=a]), a. [F. bai, fr. L. badius brown, chestnut-colored; -- used only of horses.] Reddish brown; of the color of a chestnut; -- applied to the color of horses.
{Bay cat} (Zo["o]l.), a wild cat of Africa and the East Indies ({Felis aurata}).
{Bay lynx} (Zo["o]l.), the common American lynx ({Lynx lynx}, formerly {Felis rufa} or {Lynx rufa}).
Bay \Bay\, n. [F. baie, fr. LL. baia. Of uncertain origin: cf. Ir. & Gael. badh or bagh bay, harbor, creek; Bisc. baia, baiya, harbor, and F. bayer to gape, open the mouth.] 1. (Geog.) An inlet of the sea, usually smaller than a gulf, but of the same general character.
Note: The name is not used with much precision, and is often applied to large tracts of water, around which the land forms a curve; as, Hudson's Bay. The name is not restricted to tracts of water with a narrow entrance, but is used for any recess or inlet between capes or headlands; as, the Bay of Biscay.
2. A small body of water set off from the main body; as a compartment containing water for a wheel; the portion of a canal just outside of the gates of a lock, etc.
3. A recess or indentation shaped like a bay.
4. A principal compartment of the walls, roof, or other part of a building, or of the whole building, as marked off by the buttresses, vaulting, mullions of a window, etc.; one of the main divisions of any structure, as the part of a bridge between two piers.
5. A compartment in a barn, for depositing hay, or grain in the stalks.
6. A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeachy Bay.
{Sick bay}, in vessels of war, that part of a deck appropriated to the use of the sick. --Totten.
Bay \Bay\, v. t. [Cf. OE. b[ae]wen to bathe, and G. b["a]hen to foment.] To bathe. [Obs.] --Spenser.
Bay \Bay\, n. A bank or dam to keep back water.
Bay \Bay\, v. t. To dam, as water; -- with up or back. ※ ||
Bay \Bay\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Bayed} (b[=a]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Baying}.] [OE. bayen, abayen, OF. abaier, F. aboyer, to bark; of uncertain origin.] To bark, as a dog with a deep voice does, at his game.
The hounds at nearer distance hoarsely bayed. --Dryden.
Bay \Bay\, v. t. To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay; as, to bay the bear. --Shak.
Bay \Bay\, n. [See {Bay}, v. i.] 1. Deep-toned, prolonged barking. ``The bay of curs.'' --Cowper.
2. [OE. bay, abay, OF. abai, F. aboi barking, pl. abois, prop. the extremity to which the stag is reduced when surrounded by the dogs, barking (aboyant); aux abois at bay.] A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible.
Embolden'd by despair, he stood at bay. --Dryden.
The most terrible evils are just kept at bay by incessant efforts. --I. Taylor
Bay \Bay\, n. [F. baie a berry, the fruit of the laurel and other trees, fr. L. baca, bacca, a small round fruit, a berry, akin to Lith. bapka laurel berry.] 1. A berry, particularly of the laurel. [Obs.]
2. The laurel tree ({Laurus nobilis}). Hence, in the plural, an honorary garland or crown bestowed as a prize for victory or excellence, anciently made or consisting of branches of the laurel.
The patriot's honors and the poet's bays. --Trumbull.
3. A tract covered with bay trees. [Local, U. S.]
{Bay leaf}, the leaf of the bay tree ({Laurus nobilis}). It has a fragrant odor and an aromatic taste, and is used for flavoring in food.
colorful \colorful\ adj. 1. having striking color. Opposite of {colorless}.
Syn: colored, coloured, in color(predicate). [WordNet 1.5]
The racing boat's crisp white sails caught the breeze, and it shot through the water, leaving behind the scores of small boats bobbing in the bay.
Baltimore, a 12-hour sail up the bay from the Atlantic Ocean, once was insulated from hard times by its position as the harbor closest to the nation's industrial heartland.
The hearing began in San Francisco federal court last week and was shifted across the bay to San Quentin for the inmates' testimony.
Polly Peck asked a court Thursday to appoint administrators to keep creditors at bay and help sort out its debt load of 1.3 billion pounds, about $2.5 billion.
From the air, ribbons of yellow fire hose carry water from the bay to high-pressure nozzles trained on the site.
Although the bridge is back in the commute loop, workbound motorists aren't going to have much of a picnic on Monday because important freeway connections on both sides of the bay are still knocked out.
And by then, expensive automobile sound systems were keeping the gridlocked parking lot by the bay informed about the fire causing the big black plume of smoke we saw on the northern horizon.
That meant a design computer here, an assembly robot or testing machine there, maybe a bar-code reader at the shipping bay.
In Ueckermunde a DM60m (Pounds 21.2m) marine harbour is being developed to attract prosperous Berliners who want to sail in the attractive Oder bay straddling the border.
As a result, Mr. Mengistu has been forced to transfer thousands of troops from Eritrea just to hold the town, thereby risking the loss of even more territory in Eritrea only to keep the Tigreans at bay.
"Some home mechanics and home gardeners dump their oil waste and yard waste in storm drains on Saturday," Glendening said Wednesday. "On Sunday, they go to the bay and bemoan the oil slicks and other pollutants.
The Valdez, assisted by tugboats, was expected to come into the bay on its own power under the guidance of senior San Diego harbor pilot Capt.
Naval authorities closed off Cartagena's bay to private boat traffic and were guarding it with frogmen, frigates, high-speed patrol boats and at least one submarine.
Norwegian tugboats circled the warship to keep 14 activists in seven canoes at bay while the Mahan docked.
"We can no longer hold our environmental instincts at bay."
Is it likely, without German rectitude, that inflation can be held at bay?
It is the first time since 1985 a shuttle is taking along components of Spacelab, although the pressurized module normally carried in the payload bay is being left behind.
They can't be called a thing of the past, but they are definitely not a thing of the present." Oystermen in these small bay towns are holding out hope that Rutgers University researchers, stationed in nearby Bivalve, will find a solution.
The bay, already a subject of environmental concern, has been shrinking in size because of the encroachment of silt.
I offer rituals to keep heresy at bay.
The dirt track which sweeps around the bay from airport to town passes through what looks like a military scrapyard.
Elsewhere, engineers seemed to be favoring cutting a hole in Discovery's rear cargo bay wall as the best approach to repair a small gas leak without having to take the shuttle off the launch pad.
She was rarely seen and two bodyguards kept reporters at bay at all times.
Reed told the employee he wasn't there to pick up his last check and walked into the bay area, where there were 18 mechanics working.
The astronauts met reporters Tuesday following a three-hour launch pad exercise in which they inspected Discovery and the communications satellite in its cargo bay and walked through a rehearsal of emergency escape procedures.
Atlantis' crew, commanded by Air Force Col. Richard Covey, had been expected to release the spy satellite from the shuttle's cargo bay within 24 hours of liftoff.
But from the river below, bay windows and balconies bespeak a rich residence designed to take private advantage of a stupendous site.
The plan seems to mark an end to the era when the debt problem was held at bay largely through the strength of the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board or the head of the International Monetary Fund.
Police kept the demonstrators at bay for almost an hour before they gathered strength and moved toward the center, which houses a library, a cultural center and the offices of the United States Information Agency.
Clean air was being circulated inside Discovery's sealed payload bay Friday to reduce contamination of the telescope.