One way they do that is by laying claim to it.

一种方式是做出声明。

Draper sat upright, laying his lank legs knee to knee.

德雷珀坐直了身体，细长的双腿并膝并拢。

And if we all had this secret menotoxin, we could be laying waste to crops and spoiling milk.

如果我们都有这种秘密的月经毒素，我们可能会浪费农作物并破坏牛奶。

Grant decided that cutting off supplies and laying siege to the city was the best hope for victory.

格兰特决定切断补给并围攻这座城市是胜利的最大希望。

WomeX is on a mission to laying the groundwork to combating climate change by bridging localized context and leadership training.

WomeX 的使命是通过弥合本地化背景和领导力培训，为应对气候变化奠定基础。

This led to the alliance attacking Beijing where the Boxers were laying siege to foreign embassies, causing Cixi and a court to flee.

这导致联军攻击北京，义和团包围外国大使馆，导致慈禧和宫廷出逃。

REPORTER: There's this amazing picture of my co-worker, it's him reading a Ninja Turtles book laying to his Super Soaker.

记者：有一张我同事的惊人照片，他正在读一本忍者神龟的书，躺在他的 Super Soaker 上。

While their initial attacks were  quashed, they continued to fight, eventually reaching and laying siege to the  Nandan capital of Pataliputra.

虽然他们最初的攻击被平息，但他们继续战斗，最终到达并围攻了南丹首府波力普特拉。

The young man observed the precaution; and the scout, laying a board from the ruins to the canoe, made a sign for the two officers to enter.

年轻人遵守了预防措施。侦察员在废墟上放一块木板到独木舟上，示意两名军官进入。

He scaled an overhanging rock that ended in a small promontory and there, mute and motionless, with crossed arms and blazing eyes, he seemed to be laying claim to these southernmost regions.

他攀上一块岩石、倾斜的岩石尽处是一个小呷，在呷上，他交叉着两只手，热情的眼光，不动，静戳。他好像取得这些南极地方的所有权了。

It's the five year anniversary of the first address that I gave on infrastructure and laying out our plan from our runways to our rail to our roads and what we're doing and stuff like that.

这是我第一次就基础设施发表演讲并制定从跑道到铁路再到公路的计划以及我们正在做的事情以及类似的事情的五周年纪念日。

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。