| 单词 | be/lie at the bottom of something |
| 释义 | be/lie at the bottom of somethingbe/lie at the bottom of something CAUSEto be the basic cause of a problem or situation 是某事的根本原因 Lack of money is at the bottom of many family problems. 缺钱是造成许多家庭问题的根本原因。 Examples from the Corpus be/lie at the bottom of something• Mind you're not found lying at the bottom of the steps with a broken neck like Amy Robsart.• His girlfriend had been woken by the noise, and had found him lying at the bottom of the stairs.• Holman lay at the bottom of the open grave where he'd been roughly dumped.• Knowing that self-interest lay at the bottom of his proposal did not prevent my being grateful.• The rest, including your own clothes, now lie at the bottom of some deep, evil-smelling swamp.• The female's sperm storage tubules are sausage-shaped and sperm lie at the bottom of the tube.• To deliver water from these depths the pumping machine has to be at the bottom of the well.• Your name will be at the bottom of the letter-why write it twice? → be/lie at the bottom of something at bottom1(6) |
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