Actually, we want to thank you for laying down the law before.

其实我们想谢谢你之前立威。

I could hear him laying down the law.

【lay】我听到他在发号施令。

You work up an appetite laying down the law.

定规矩定得肚子饿。

The confession of ignorance drawn from him over the match end had, I thought, been bound to humiliate him, but here he was self satisfied as ever, laying down the law to the great Giraud without a tremor.

我认为，他在比赛结束时承认自己不知道， 这注定要羞辱他， 但在这里他一如既往地自我满足， 毫不畏惧地向伟大的吉罗定下了法律。