Now, China Civil Engineering is laying tracks for the second line of the Nigeria railway modernization project, the Lagos-Ibadan railway.

目前，由中国铁建中土集团承建的尼日利亚铁路现代化项目第二标段拉各斯-伊巴丹铁路（拉伊铁路）已进入全面铺轨阶段。

Railway builders planned cities on paper before they laid tracks connecting them.

铁路建设者在铺设连接城市的轨道之前先在纸上规划城市。

I needed a place to lay some tracks with my band.

我需要地方和我的乐队玩音乐。

But maybe I laid the track for him to have the heart attack.

这心脏病进程也太慢了也许是我埋下了隐患。

They are just about to start laying down tracks for their second album.

【lay】他们即将开始为他们的第二张专辑制作曲目。

He started laying railroad tracks across the swamp to get his timber onto ships and transported up the East Coast.

他开始在沼泽地上铺设铁轨，以便将木材运上船并运往东海岸。

Yeah. I needed a place to lay some tracks with my band. You see that guy? He used to tour with the Doobie Brothers. How wild is that?

我需要地方和我的乐队玩音乐。看到他了吗？他曾与杜比兄弟乐团巡回演出过。夸张吧？

These companies had built their telegraph lines precisely as the railroads had laid their tracks; that is, independent lines were constructed connecting two given points.

这些公司完全按照铁路铺设轨道的方式建造了电报线。 也就是说，构建了连接两个给定点的独立线。

Becky Tipper, the Network Rail manager in charge of the reopening, was surprised when, as her workers started laying the track, " a crowd of people" turned out once again.

让负责重新开通的铁路网经理贝基·蒂珀感到惊讶的是，她的工人们开始铺设铁轨时，“一群人”再次出现。

'And all you did before going to the Westmorland was to hop over to Paris, and lay the track of Leslie Searle in case anyone proved inquisitive'.

“在去威斯特摩兰之前，你所做的就是跳到巴黎，找到莱斯利·塞尔的踪迹，以防有人好奇。”

The brain bots are under the delusion they're actually under control and they need to do stuff, even though the track's already laid out for the… and they'll just keep riding the ride over and over.

大脑机器人误以为他们实际上处于控制之中，他们需要做一些事情，尽管赛道已经为… … 布置好了，他们只会一遍又一遍地继续骑行。

The increasing protests about railroads obtaining " monopolies" is a farce: it rarely makes economic sense for two competing railroads to lay separate tracks to serve a single shipper, and nearly all such duplicative routes disappeared long ago.

关于铁路公司获得“垄断”而引发的抗议日益增多，实际上是一种闹剧：对于两家竞争的铁路公司来说，为了服务一个单一的货主而铺设独立的轨道很少具备经济意义，几乎所有这种重复线路早已消失。