lie at someone's door

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To be the fault or responsibility of someone. idiomatic,intransitive
    — Appointed foreign minister in 2004, he has since then through successive US administrations developed a Putinesque revulsion for all western ideas, if not all western consumer durables. At one point, he said all the ills of the 20th century colonialism, two world wars and the cold war lay at the door of American arrogance.

词形变化

lies at someone's door present,singular,third-person lying at someone's door participle,present lay at someone's door past lain at someone's door participle,past

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