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If someone is on the lam, they are running and hiding, usually from the police. It is American informal speech, a little old-fashioned now — the language of crime films, pulp stories, and newspapers: he skipped town and went on the lam.
If someone is on the lam如果有人on the lam they are running and hiding他們就是在逃跑躲藏 usually from the police通常是躲警察 It is American informal speech這是美式的非正式用語 a little old-fashioned now現在聽起來有點過時 the language of crime films, pulp stories, and newspapers是犯罪電影、廉價驚悚小說，和報紙的用語 he skipped town and went on the lam像he skipped town and went on the lam（他逃離小鎮、開始跑路）
People also say take it on the lam, meaning to start running. You can meet lam as a verb for ‘run off’, but the set phrase on the lam is the one students actually see.
People also say人們也會說 take it on the lamtake it on the lam meaning to start running意思是開始逃跑 You can meet lam as a verb for 'run off'你也會看到lam被當動詞用，意思是「逃走」 but the set phrase on the lam但固定片語on the lam is the one students actually see才是學生真正會看到的用法
Though actually, you almost never use lam alone as a neat noun in careful talk; it wants that on the.
Though actually不過其實 you almost never use lam alone你幾乎不會單獨用lam as a neat noun in careful talk在正式一點的用語裡當名詞單獨用 it wants that on the它一定要搭配on the才行
The colour is noir, even a bit today. A lawyer in court would say ‘a fugitive’ instead.
The colour is noir這個字的味道很黑色電影（noir） even a bit jokey today現在講起來甚至有點戲謔 A lawyer in court法庭上的律師 would say 'a fugitive' instead會改說'a fugitive'
組成From Middle English lamen / lemen, from Old English lemian and Old Norse lemja, both from a Germanic verb meaning to beat or lame. The ‘run and hide’ sense is treated as coming from that same verb.
原始詞典資料10 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Lamname/læm/
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A surname from Cantonese.
lamverb詞源 1/læm/
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informalTo beat or thrash.
- 1930, Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, Mule Bone, Act II, Scene 2, in The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 5: The Plays to 1942: Mulatto to The Sun Do Move, edited by Leslie Catherine Sanders, Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002, p. 102, An' fo' I knowed it, he done picked up that bone an' lammed me ovah de head wid it.
- They lammed each other on the head with great, clumsy stone hammers; but their skulls were so hard that the hammers bounced off again […]
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datedslangTo flee or run away.
- [Gangster running away:] Batman and Robin! Let's lam!
- […]and she was so mad and so down deep vindictive that she reported to the police some false trumped-up hysterical crazy charge, and Dean had to lam from Hoboken.
lamnoun詞源 1/læm/
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slangA flight or escape.
- on the lam
lamnoun詞源 2/læm/
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The twenty-third letter of the Arabic alphabet, ل (l). It is preceded by ك (k) and followed by م (m).
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。