| 词汇 | lie |
| 释义 | lie verb uk /laɪ/ us /laɪ/ lieverb (POSITION)A2[ I+ adv/prep, L ]present participlelying | past tenselay | past participlelain to be in or move into a horizontal position on a surface: 躺；平躺；平卧 to lie in bed躺在床上 to lie on a beach躺在海滩上 to lie on your side侧卧 A cat lay in front of the fire.一只猫趴在炉火前。 He lies awake at night, worrying.晚上他躺在床上焦虑不安，无法入睡。 A pen lay on the desk.桌子上放着一支铅笔。 B1[ I+ adv/prep, L ]present participlelying | past tenselay | past participlelain If something lies in a particular place, position, or direction, it is in that place, position, or direction: 位于，处在，坐落在 There's an old pair of shoes of yours lying at/in the bottom of the wardrobe.衣柜最下面放着一双你的旧鞋子。 The river lies 30 km to the south.那条河在南面30公里处。 The team is lying third in the league.该队在联赛中位居第三。 Here lies the body of Mary Taylor (= this is where Mary Taylor is buried).玛丽‧泰勒葬于此处。 There are several houses lying empty in the town.城里有几处空房子。 The town lay in ruins.城镇已成为一片废墟。 The ship lies off(= is positioned near) the coast of Spain.那艘船位于西班牙海岸附近。 [ I+ adv/prep ]present participlelying | past tenselay | past participlelain to exist: 存在，在 The hardest part of the competition still lies ahead of us.比赛最艰难的阶段还在前面呢。 C2[ Iusually+ adv/prep ]present participlelying | past tenselay | past participlelain If responsibility, blame, a decision, a choice, etc. lies with someone, they have responsibility, must make the decision, etc.: （责任、罪责、决定、选择等）在于 Responsibility for the disaster must ultimately lie with the government.发生此次灾难的责任最终必须由政府来承担。 Where does the blame lie?谁来承担罪责？ be to blame for something be to blameNo one can decide who is to blame. be at faultBoth the fans and the players were at fault. be someone's faultThis is all my fault. be responsibleWe're still trying to determine who was responsible for the attacks. the blame lies withSome of the blame lies with investors. the blame rests withMuch of the blame rests with the government, which has confused people with conflicting health messages lie in statepresent participlelying | past tenselay | past participlelain When the dead body of an important person lies in state, it is arranged so that the public can see and honour it before it is buried: （重要人物的遗体埋葬前经整容后）供公众瞻仰 Thousands of people came to pay their respects as his body lay in state. It was very uncomfortable lying on the hospital bed with my legs suspended in the air.我躺在医院的病床上，腿悬吊在半空，难受极了。 He was lying under the table in a drunken stupor.他躺在桌子底下，烂醉如泥。 The ship has been lying on the seabed for more than 50 years.这艘船已经在海底沉睡了50多年。 My dog loves lying on the rug in front of the fire.我的狗喜欢趴在炉火前的小地毯上。 The town lies halfway between Rome and Florence.此城镇位于罗马和佛罗伦萨的中间。 Reclining crowd-surfing fallen fetal position foetal position full-length lay lean lounge around (something) prone prone positioning proning prostrate prostration repose sink sink into something sit back sprawl sprawled stretch You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Placing and positioning an object Existing and being Duty, obligation and responsibility lieverb (SPEAK FALSELY)B1[ I ]present participlelying | past tenselied | past participlelied to say or write something that is not true in order to deceive someone: 说谎，撒谎 Are you lying to me?你是不是在跟我撒谎？ Don't trust her - she's lying.别信她的——她在说谎。 I suspect he lies about his age.我怀疑他谎报了年龄。 See also liar to say something not true in order to deceive lieAll she does is lie - you can't believe a word she says. tell a lieI cannot tell a lie: I chopped down the cherry tree. lie through your teethHe lied through his teeth that he didn't go to the cinema, though he was still holding the ticket stub in his hand as he said it. fibI don't like fibbing, but I didn't want to hurt his feelings by saying his gift was awful. misleadI'm afraid you've been misled. She is, in fact, married. deludeHe's deluding himself if he thinks that he's getting that promotion. If you're both going to lie, at least stick to the same story and don't contradict each other!如果你们俩都要撒谎，至少也要口径一致，不要互相矛盾！ He studied the men's faces carefully, trying to work out who was lying. Are you accusing me of lying?你是在指责我撒谎吗？ The prime minister reacted angrily to claims that he had lied to the House of Commons.有指控说首相对国会撒了谎，他对此很愤怒。 He's never lied to me before, so I have no reason to doubt his word.以前他从未对我说过谎，因此我没有理由怀疑他说的话。 Lies, lying & hypocrisy a pack of liesidiom artifice bad faith black is whiteidiom cakeism falsehood falsification feed someone a lineidiom fib fiction mythologically mythologize perjure perjury someone can talk!idiom stretch the truthidiom washing weasel words white lie whopper GrammarLay or lie? The verb lay means ‘to put something down carefully in a flat position’. It must have an object. It is a regular verb, but note the spelling of the past simple and -ed form: laid not layed: … Idiomslie doggo lie down on the job lie low lie through your teeth not take something lying down Phrasal verbslie around lie back lie behind something lie down lie in lie in something lie up lie noun[ C ] uk /laɪ/ us /laɪ/ B1 something you say that you know is not true: 谎话，瞎话 I told a lie when I said I liked her haircut.我骗她说我喜欢她的发式。 It's embarrassing to be caught telling a lie.说谎被人当场识破是件很尴尬的事情。 I wasn't entirely honest with him, I admit, but I didn't actually tell him any lies. The story was nothing but lies. Under cross-examination, the witness admitted her evidence had been mostly lies.在盘问下，证人承认她的大部分证词都是谎言。 It's difficult to disentangle hard fact from myth, or truth from lies.要分清事实与神话、真理与谎言并不是一件容易的事。 Lies, lying & hypocrisy a pack of liesidiom artifice bad faith black is whiteidiom cakeism falsehood falsification feed someone a lineidiom fib fiction mythologically mythologize perjure perjury someone can talk!idiom stretch the truthidiom washing weasel words white lie whopper Idiomsgive the lie to something I tell a lie the lie of the land lie | American Dictionarylie verb us/lɑɪ/ lieverb (POSITION)present participlelyingus/ˈlɑɪ·ɪŋ/ | past tenselayus/leɪ/ | past participlelainus/leɪn/ to be in or move into a horizontal position on a surface: [ Ialways+ adv/prep ]The mechanic was lying on his back underneath my car. [ Ialways+ adv/prep ]I love to lie down in front of the fire and read. [ L ]He lies awake at night, worrying. present participlelyingus/ˈlɑɪ·ɪŋ/ | past tenselayus/leɪ/ | past participlelainus/leɪn/ If something lies in a particular place, position, condition, or direction it is in that place, position, condition, or direction: [ Ialways+ adv/prep ]The river lies 40 miles to the south of us. [ Ialways+ adv/prep ]You shouldn’t leave that check lying around (= not in its place). lieverb (SPEAK FALSELY)[ I/T ]present participlelyingus/ˈlɑi·ɪŋ/ | past tense and past participlelied to say something that is not true in order to deceive: [ I ]Both witnesses lied to the police about what happened. [ Talways+ adv/prep ]She lied her way past the guards. lienoun[ C ]us/lɑɪ/ (SPEAKING FALSELY) Her report is full of lies and misinformation. Idiomlie low Phrasal verbslie ahead (of someone) lie behind something Examples of lielie The way forward is more likely to lie in striking the right balance between the planners and the searchers. Her main research interest lies in the philosophical analysis of bioethical concepts. Part of the answer lies in the phonetic redundancy of the signal itself, and the rest in the effects of that redundancy on auditory processing. Reconstructive procedures, however, lie along a continuum, without any clear boundary between therapeutic reconstructive surgery for a diagnosable problem and purely cosmetic surgery. The value of a case study lies in providing evidence to advance broader generalizations; the relationship should not be reversed. The difference between studies lies in the interpretation. A final source of the conflicting results may lie in the left - right and yes - no decision tasks. This question lies at the heart of political representation and democratic responsiveness. Perhaps ultimately, behind all the pursuit of geometry and base-figures, lies the idea that there are universal principles that underlie all phenomena and all cultures. He further repeats the tired official lie that war veterans engineered the subsequent farm invasions. A key to understanding the debacle of anti-nuclear reform lies in the past history of the movement itself. One reason for that unpredictability lies in the fact that an individual's needs and wants themselves often cannot be articulated. To be more precise, the answer lies in the theory of freedom that underlies this emphasis on freedom of choice. The primary advantage of the pyramidic approach lies in its responsiveness. However, based on the surveyed dimensions of the building, the pit appears to lie near the center of the structure. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Collocations withlielieThese are words often used in combination with lie. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. absolute lie When we hear talk of low doses of irradiation, we must recognise it as an absolute lie. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 blatant lie That is why this request for postponement is a blatant lie: in reality, it is based on a political, not objective, reason. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English deliberate lie To present pension funds as a panacea however would be a deliberate lie. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. See all collocations with lie |
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