lie

高中CET4CET6

英[laɪ]
美[laɪ]

基本释义

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

词性变化

实用例句

to lie on your back/side/front

仰 / 侧 / 俯卧

牛津词典

The cat was lying fast asleep by the fire.

猫卧在炉火旁睡得很熟。

牛津词典

Clothes were lying all over the floor.

地板上到处都堆放着衣服。

牛津词典

The book lay open on his desk.

那本书摊开放在他的书桌上。

牛津词典

Snow was lying thick on the ground.

厚厚的积雪覆盖着大地。

牛津词典

There was a child lying on the ground...

地上躺着一个小孩。

The injured man was lying motionless on his back...

那名受伤的男子一动不动地仰面躺在那里。

...a newspaper lying on a nearby couch...

放在旁边沙发上的一张报纸

Broken glass lay scattered on the carpet.

碎玻璃散落在地毯上。

The islands lie at the southern end of the Kurile chain.

这些岛屿位于千岛群岛的南端。

She turned back to the Bible lying open in her lap...

她将注意力又转回到摊放在腿上的《圣经》。

The picture lay hidden in the archives for over 40 years...

这张照片在档案室中藏了40多年。

I was going well and was lying fourth...

我当时发挥不错,排在第四。

Blyth Tait is lying in second place.

布莱思·泰特目前名列第二。

The problem lay in the large amounts spent on defence...

问题在于防务方面耗资巨大。

They will only assume that, as a woman, the fault lies with me...

他们只会假定是我出了错,因为我是女人。

She'd need all her strength and bravery to cope with what lay in store...

她需要所有的力量与勇气去应付将会出现的问题。

The President's most serious challenges lie ahead.

对总统来说最为严重的挑战还在后面。

The inscription reads: Here lies Catin, the son of Magarus...

碑文写着:马格勒斯之子卡廷长眠于此。

My father lies in the small cemetery a few miles up this road.

我父亲葬在沿这条路往北几英里处的一个小公墓里。

It had been wet overnight, and a morning mist lay on the field.

前一天晚上下了雨,田野上笼着一层晨雾。

The actual site of a city is determined by the natural lie of the land.

城市的实际选址取决于这片土地的自然状况。

'Who else do you work for?' — 'No one.' — 'That's a lie.'...

“你还为谁卖命?”——“没有谁。”——“你撒谎。”

I've had enough of your lies...

我已经听够了你的谎言。

I know he's lying...

我知道他在说谎。

If asked, he lies about his age...

有人问起时,他就会谎报年龄。

The camera can sometimes lie.

照相机拍出的照片有时也未必可靠。

This survey gives the lie to the idea that Britain is moving towards economic recovery.

这项调查显示英国经济正在复苏的想法是失实的。

My mother never told my father the truth about me. We've been living a lie all this time.

母亲从来没告诉父亲我的真实身世。一直以来我们都活在谎言之中。

It is the first scene of the play chronologically. I tell a lie, it's actually strictly speaking the second scene.

从时间顺序上来看这是整个剧的第一场。不对,严格说来实际上是第二场。

真题例句

they lay more emphasis on commitment and devotion

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

Where did Mr Jobs's great strength lie?

出自-2012年12月阅读原文

Things get stolen when it is easy to steal them because they are left lying around unwatched.

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

Increasingly, science indicates that genes lay the groundwork for many human traits.

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

Lying to employers and family about activities.

出自-2010年6月阅读原文

It lies seven miles east of Newton.

出自-2013年12月听力原文

"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.

出自-2011年12月听力原文

But the store manger laid the evil eye on us.

出自-2010年12月听力原文

For example, she would say, you'll get a spot on your tongue if you tell a lie; if you eat stale bread, your hair will curl.

2017年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section B

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

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

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

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Part of the fault lies with our inner caveman.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

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

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

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

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

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

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

Down that path lies economic decline.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

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

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

people tend to lie when talking on the phone

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

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

出自-2012年12月阅读原文

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

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

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

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

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

出自-2014年6月听力原文

They start to lay eggs when they are nine months old

出自-2014年6月听力原文

Only the strongest can reach their destination to lay eggs.

出自-2014年6月听力原文

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.

出自-2013年12月听力原文

They lay great emphasis on hard work.

出自-2013年6月听力原文

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

出自-2012年12月听力原文

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.

出自-2012年6月听力原文

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.

出自-2011年12月听力原文

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

出自-2010年12月听力原文

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

2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

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

2015年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

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.

2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

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.

2018年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

Enormous opportunities also lie with e-waste.

2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

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

2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

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.

2018年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

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

2018年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

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

2018年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

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.

2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

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.

2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

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.

2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

And I've found that the possibilities that lie within books are limitless.

2019年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

At the heart of the phenomenon lie tiny marine microorganisms (海洋微生物) called phytoplankton.

2019年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

But it may well be that the learning you really want lies somewhere else instead.

2015年高考英语全国卷2 完形填空 原文

Don't let gossip turn into lies.

2016年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 阅读A 选项

He added that Jason lost money because he would not tell a lie.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 完形填空 原文

He lost sale of twenty papers because he would not tell a lie, but got a well-paid job because he told the truth.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 完形填空 原文

He thought of his bird with no seeds and the cake he wanted to buy for his mother, but was determined that he would not tell a lie.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 完形填空 原文

However, if others benefit in the process, and I get some reward too, does it really matter where my motivation lies?

2019年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

I saw there were two instructors on board and a man lying across the middle.

2018年高考英语全国卷2 完形填空 原文

If they tell you otherwise, they're lying and will probably change what they want to purse within the first quarter of attendance.

2016年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 七选五 原文

In fact, the key to easy morning wake-up lies in resting your body clock.

2017年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 七选五 原文

In his modernist view, beauty lies in simplicity and elegance, and the aim of the designer is to create solutions to problems through the most efficient means.

2016年高考英语上海卷 选词填空 原文

Obediently, my class lay their heads on their desks, closed their eyes and waited.

2015年高考英语湖南卷 完形填空 原文

Others build a large, clear mass of non-living jelly-lie material and spread themselves over it.

2015年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

People often think of gossipers as harmless, but cruel lies can cause pain.

2016年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

Probably the worst type of gossip is the absolute lie.

2016年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

Rideout's research interest lies in electric engineering.

2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 选项

Scott's last journey, completed as he lay in a tent dying of cold and hunger, caught the world's imagination, and a film made in his honor drew crowds.

2016年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

She hopes to inspire the jamaicans to lay down their weapons.

2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

So far there is no effective way to get rid of it, but a new study suggests an answer may lie in the stomachs of some hungry worms.

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

The attraction of the cloisters museum and gardens lies in the fact that its collections date from the middle ages.

2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读A 题设

Then lay the tube in place so that one end rests all the way in the cup and the rest of the line runs up — and out — the side of the hole.

2017年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

There is no doubt that this candidate's advantage lies in his ability to communicate with foreigners in English.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 单项选择 原文

They could help promote other industries whether they lie inside or outside arts.

2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 填空题 原文

This is the most ambitious goal for temperature rise set by the Paris agreement, after a push by low-lying island nations like Kiribati, which say limiting temperature rise to ?

2016年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Using expansive gestures with open arms makes us feel more powerful, crossing your arms makes you more determined and lying down can bring more insights.

2017年高考英语浙江卷(11月) 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

While Harold and Erica are certainly not strong or memorable characters, the more serious problems with the social animal lie elsewhere.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读E 原文

With great interest, he read everything he could lay his hands on, listened to the town elders and learned about the world beyond his tiny hometown.

2015年高考英语福建卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

You'd better lie back still for a while.

2017年高考英语全国卷2 听力 原文

Airborne technologies, such as different types of radar and photographic equipment carried by airplanes or spacecraft, allow archaeologists to learn about what lies beneath the ground without digging.

出自-2014年考研阅读原文

The same curiosity to find what lies beyond the horizon that first brought early Polynesians to Hawaii’s shores inspires astronomers today to explore the heavens.

出自-2017年考研阅读原文

About a third say the problem of fake news lies in.

出自-2018年考研阅读原文

That's a lie that we have perpetuated, and it fosters commonness.

2009年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

英英释义

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;

    "The sick man lay in bed all day"

    "the books are lying on the shelf"

  • 3. originate (in);

    "The problems dwell in the social injustices in this country"

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

    "lie dormant"

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

    "Don't lie to your parents"

    "She lied when she told me she was only 29"

  • 6. have a place in relation to something else;

    "The fate of Bosnia lies in the hands of the West"

    "The responsibility rests with the Allies"

  • 7. assume a reclining position;

    "lie down on the bed until you feel better"

同义词辨析

situate, lie, stand

这些动词均含"位于"之意。

  • situate: 通常用过去分词作表语,指某城镇、乡村或某物等的地理位置与环境的关系,即在何处。
  • lie: 最常用词,不及物,指国家、城镇、道路、湖海等所处的位置。
  • stand: 多指建筑物等被想象为主体的物体立于某处。

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