lie

英[laɪ]美[laɪ]

v.躺，被平放，位于，处于，伸展，排名，说谎，存在，将发生，长眠；

n.谎言，位置；

第三人称单数：lies;

过去式：lay; lied;

过去分词：lain; lied;

现在分词：lying;

例句

The man will not lie down under such treatment.这个人不甘心受这样的对待。

An old worker spread his padded coat on the floor and insisted that I lie down for a while.一位老工人把大衣铺在地上, 一定要我在上面躺一会儿。

Least of all would I lie to you.我*犯不上和你撒谎了。

I won't be able to look him in the eye if I lie.我要是撒谎, 我就不敢直视他的眼睛。

When the overseer was not in,most of the workers would lie down on the job.只要监工不在,大多数工人就磨洋工。

A lie is as much a lie,when it is whispered or when it is proclaimed at the market cross.不管是小声低语还是在市场门口大声叫喊,谎言终归是谎言。

I was very careful about what I said. It’s best to let sleeping dogs lie, I think.我非常注意自己的言辞，我认为*好不要惹是生非。

All their hopes lie in him.他们把所有希望都寄托在他身上。

Normally, a woman will lie in a few hours before the birth of her child.在一般情况下, 孕妇在分娩前几个小时要卧床待产。

The time had come for her to lie in.她分娩的时间到了。

英语六级真题

Clearly, richer societies are able to provide environmental improvements which lie well beyond the reach of poorer communities.

The problem with lighting, if it arises, often doesn't lie in light sources but in their applications.

Part of the fault lies with our inner caveman.

Nick Perks, project director for Climate Solidarity, believes this sort of activity is where the future of environmental action lies.

But in practice, our brain discounts the risks — and benefits — associated with issues that lie some way ahead.

Private spaceflight could lie within reach of rich civilians in a few years.

Down that path lies economic decline.

When asked straightforwardly, people tend to lie or shade the truth when the subject is sex, money or employment.

people tend to lie when talking on the phone

Around the same time, I noticed that those who part with $2285 a night to stay in a cliff-top room at the Post Ranch Inn in Big Sur, California, pay partly for the privilege of not having a TV in their rooms; the future of travel, I'm reliably told, lies in "black-hole resorts," which charge high prices precisely because you can't get online in their rooms

At the heart of the debate over illegal immigration lies one key question: are immigrants good or bad for the economy?

According to Valerie Gauthier, associate dean at HEC Paris, the key lies in the process by which MBA programmes recruit their students

So when fly the north, they might lay eggs in Louisiana and die.

They start to lay eggs when they are nine months old

Only the strongest can reach their destination to lay eggs.

Later working together in London, they laid the foundations of modern physics by showing that normal laws of cause and effect do not apply at the level of subatomic particles.

They lay great emphasis on hard work.

Last year, Andrea's husband, Rick, a miner in Nevada was laid off.

She injured her spine in a fall and a doctor told her to lie flat on her back for a month so it can mend.

Make your own way"," Stand on your own two feet" or my mother's favorite remark when I was face-to-face with consequences of some action: Now that you've made your bed, lie on it.

Within samples collected from the solid substances lying beneath the ice.

And we are less likely to lie when we have moral reminders or when we think others are watching.

But in practice, our brain discounts the risks —and benefits — associated with issues that lie some way ahead.

But others opted to lie, and they showed increased activity in their frontal parietal (颅腔壁的) control network, which is involved in difficult or complex thinking.

But surely everyone reading this has had times when you lie in bed for hours, unable to fall asleep because your brain is thinking about work.

Enormous opportunities also lie with e-waste.

External conditions also matter in terms of when and how often we lie.

If after work you lie around on your bed and get irritated by political commentary on your phone or get stressed thinking about decisions about how to renovate your home, your brain has not received a break from high mental arousal states.

If you lie in bed for eight hours, you may have rested, but you can still feel exhausted the next day.

Psychologists call them "masters of deception", those rare individuals with a natural ability to tell, with complete confidence, when someone is telling a lie.

The amygdala is a crucial part of the brain that produces fear, anxiety and emotional responses including that sinking, guilty feeling you get when you lie.

This means that if you give people multiple opportunities to lie for their own benefit, they start with little lies which get bigger over time.

We are more likely to lie, research shows, when we are able to rationalise it, when we are stressed and fatigued or sec others being dishonest.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

VERB

躺；平卧

If you are lying somewhere, you are in a horizontal position and are not standing or sitting.

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VERB

被平放

If an object lies in a particular place, it is in a flat position in that place.

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VERB

（某处）位于（某个位置或方向）

If you say that a place lies in a particular position or direction, you mean that it is situated there.

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V-LINK

处于…状态

You can use lie to say that something is or remains in a particular state or condition. For example, if something lies forgotten, it has been and remains forgotten.

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VERB

（比赛等中）排名，占名次

You can use lie to say what position a competitor or team is in during a competition.

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VERB

（问题、解决方法、过错等）存在，在于

You can talk about where something such as a problem, solution, or fault lies to say what you think it consists of, involves, or is caused by.

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VERB

（尤指不快或困难之事）将发生，在等待

You use lie in expressions such as lie ahead ,lie in store, and lie in wait when you are talking about what someone is going to experience in the future, especially when it is something unpleasant or difficult.

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VERB

（尤用于墓碑上的文字中）长眠

Lie is used in formal English, especially on gravestones, to say that a dead person is buried in a particular place.

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VERB

（光、云、雾等）存在，展现

If you say that light, clouds, or fog lie somewhere, you mean that they exist there or are spread over the area mentioned.

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N-SING

位置；状态

The lie of an object or area is its position or the way that it is arranged.

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英汉词典释义

vi.

躺；卧；平躺；平卧；横卧(常与 down 连用)

位于, 坐落在

展现, 伸展, , 铺展, 展开

说谎; 撒谎; 编造谎言

处于，保留，保持（某种状态）

思想、特征、问题等存在；在于(常与 in 连用)

（比赛时）名列，排名

[ lie oneself]用欺骗或说谎获得；谎骗

(风)保持某一方向；位于特定方向

vi.

平放

n.

谎言；谎话；假话

位置；状态；方向

兽穴：(动物的)栖息处，隐藏处

[英国英语]躺；休息时间

假象，造成错觉的事物；欺诈，欺骗行为

vt.

说谎，撒谎，讲假话

(事物)给以错觉；造成假象；不可靠；欺骗

英英词典释义

Noun

1. a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth

2. position or manner in which something is situated

Verb

1. be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position

2. be lying, be prostrate; be in a horizontal position;

3. originate (in);

4. be and remain in a particular state or condition;

5. tell an untruth; pretend with intent to deceive;

6. have a place in relation to something else;

7. assume a reclining position;

行业词典

体育： 球位好打；棒头弯度；角度；

医学： 胎儿位置，胎儿姿势：胎儿纵轴与母体纵轴的关系，见presentation项下；