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verbnounverbnoun + adv./prep. to lie on your back/side/front仰卧；侧卧；俯卧 + adj. The cat was lying fast asleep by the fire. 猫卧在炉火旁睡得很熟。 + adv./prep. Clothes were lying all over the floor. 地板上到处都堆放着衣服。 + adj. The book lay open on his desk. 那本书摊开放在他的书桌上。 + adj. Snow was lying thick on the ground. 厚厚的积雪覆盖着大地。 These machines have lain idle since the factory closed. 工厂关闭以来，这些机器就一直闲置着。 + adv./prep. a ship lying at anchor锚泊的船 I'd rather use my money than leave it lying in the bank. 我宁愿把钱花掉也不愿搁在银行里不用。 The town lies on the coast. 这个小镇位于海滨。 The valley lay below us. 峡谷展现在我们的脚下。 The problem lies in deciding when to intervene. 问题在于决定何时介入。 + adv./prep. Thompson is lying in fourth place. 汤姆森名列第四。 + adj. After five games the German team are lying second. 经过五场比赛后，德国队排名第二。 We need to find out what lies at the bottom of these fears. Smoke lay heavy on the far side of the water. 水面对岸悬浮着黑沉沉的烟雾。 Despair hangs heavy in the stifling air. 绝望的感觉积压在憋闷的空气中。 The crime lay heavy on her conscience. 那件罪行使她内疚不安。 You are young and your whole life lies ahead of you. 你年纪轻，今后的日子还长着呢。 She didn’t know what lay in store. He was surrounded by reporters who had been lying in wait for him. 他被暗中守候他的记者团团围住。 Let's wait and see how the land lies before we do anything. 咱们等弄清情况以后再行动吧。 A man lay dead in the middle of the road. He just lay there smiling. He was lying down on the bed. He was lying face down in the mud. I used to lie awake at night worrying about it. I was lying flat on the floor. Lie face up with your feet on the floor. Lie still while I put the bandage on. She lay on her stomach. She lay sprawled on the sofa. She likes to lie in bed all day. She was still lying naked on the bed. The answer seems to lie elsewhere. The big difference between them lies in their attitudes. The blame lies with your parents. We must be prepared for whatever lies ahead. She lay on her back and looked up at the sky. You could see from his face that he was lying. 从他的表情你可以看出他在说谎。 The castle was hidden by the lie of the land. Check out the lie of the land before you make a decision. 要摸清情况后再作决定。 You could see from his face that he was lying. 从他的表情你可以看出他在说谎。 lie (to somebody) (about something) Don't lie to me! 别对我撒谎！ She lies about her age. 她谎报自己的年龄。 The camera cannot lie (= give a false impression). 照相机不会作假。 He was unable to lie convincingly. The witness was clearly lying through his teeth. 那证人分明是在睁着眼睛说瞎话。 to tell a lie说谎 The whole story is nothing but a pack of lies. 整个叙述只不过是一派谎言。 a barefaced lie (= a lie that is deliberate and shocking)厚颜无耻的谎话 These new figures give the lie to the belief that unemployment is going down. We first met in 2006, no, I tell a lie, it was 2007. 我们第一次见面是在 2006 年，不，我说错了，是 2007 年。 He lived a lie for thirty years, ‘married’ to two women. He lived a lie for thirty years, pretending to be the faithful husband of two different women living in two different towns. He told a big fat lie! He told a whopping great lie! How could she swallow such a blatant lie? That’s a downright lie! That’s a lie—I never said that! a web of elaborate lies As usual, the party’s leaflet is full of barefaced lies. I couldn’t tell her a lie. The whole story is nothing but a pack of lies. 整个叙述只不过是一派谎言。 What’s the harm in telling a little white lie? |