lies

英 [laɪz]

美 [laɪz]

v.  躺; 平躺; 平卧; 平放; 处于，保留，保持(某种状态)
v.  说谎; 撒谎; 编造谎言
n.  谎言; 位置
n.  谎言; 谎话
lie的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

POSITION OR SITUATION 位置；情形

• VERB 躺；平卧
  If youare lyingsomewhere, you are in a horizontal position and are not standing or sitting.
  1. There was a child lying on the ground...
     地上躺着一个小孩。
  2. 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。
  3. He lay awake watching her for a long time.
     他睁着眼躺在那里看她看了很长时间。
• VERB 被平放
  If an objectliesin a particular place, it is in a flat position in that place.
  1. ...a newspaper lying on a nearby couch...
     放在旁边沙发上的一张报纸
  2. Broken glass lay scattered on the carpet.
     碎玻璃散落在地毯上。
  3. ...a two-page memo lying unread on his desk.
     一份两页的备忘录放在他桌子上，还没看过
• VERB （某处）位于（某个位置或方向）
  If you say that a placeliesin a particular position or direction, you mean that it is situated there.
  1. The islands lie at the southern end of the Kurile chain.
     这些岛屿位于千岛群岛的南端。
• V-LINK 处于…状态
  You can uselieto say that something is or remains in a particular state or condition. For example, if somethinglies forgotten, it has been and remains forgotten.
  1. 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》。
  2. 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。
  3. His country's economy lies in ruins.
     他的国家的经济崩溃了。
• VERB （比赛等中）排名，占名次
  You can uselieto say what position a competitor or team is in during a competition.
  1. I was going well and was lying fourth...
     我当时发挥不错，排在第四。
  2. Blyth Tait is lying in second place.
     布莱思·泰特目前名列第二。
• 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 faultliesto say what you think it consists of, involves, or is caused by.
  1. The problem lay in the large amounts spent on defence...
     问题在于防务方面耗资巨大。
  2. 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。
  3. He realised his future lay elsewhere...
     他意识到他的未来不在这里。
  4. We must be clear about where the responsibility lies.
     我们必须清楚责任所在。
• VERB （尤指不快或困难之事）将发生，在等待
  You useliein expressions such aslie ahead,lie in store, andlie in waitwhen you are talking about what someone is going to experience in the future, especially when it is something unpleasant or difficult.
  1. 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。
  2. The President's most serious challenges lie ahead.
     对总统来说最为严重的挑战还在后面。
• VERB （尤用于墓碑上的文字中）长眠
  Lieis used in formal English, especially on gravestones, to say that a dead person is buried in a particular place.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。
• VERB （光、云、雾等）存在，展现
  If you say that light, clouds, or fogliesomewhere, you mean that they exist there or are spread over the area mentioned.
  1. 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。
• N-SING 位置；状态
  Thelieof an object or area is its position or the way that it is arranged.
  1. 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。
• tolet sleeping dogs lie→ see:dog

Do not confuse the verbliewith the verblay. Becauselayis used to talk about putting something in a particular place or position, it is related to the verblie. If someonelayssomething somewhere, itliesthere. The past tense oflieislayand the past participle islain. It is an intransitive verb.I lay on the floor with my legs in the air.However,lay, whose past tense and past participle are bothlaid, is usually a transitive verb.They laid him on the floor.
不要混淆lie与lay这两个动词的用法。lay表示将某物放在某处或某个位置，意义上与动词lie有相关之处。某人将某物放（lay）在某处，那该物就放（lie）在那里。lie的过去式是lay，过去分词是lain，为不及物动词，如：I lay on the floor with my legs in the air（我躺在地上，双腿抬起）。而lay的过去式和过去分词均为laid，通常作及物动词，如：They laid him on the floor（他们把他放在地上）。

THINGS THAT ARE NOT TRUE 不实之事

• See also:'Who else do you work for?' — 'No one.' — 'That's a lie.'...I've had enough of your lies...All the boys told lies about their adventures.white lie
• VERB 说谎；骗人
  If someoneis lying, they are saying something which they know is not true.
  1. I know he's lying...
     我知道他在说谎。
  2. If asked, he lies about his age...
     有人问起时，他就会谎报年龄。
  3. She lied to her husband so she could meet her lover...
     她对丈夫撒了谎，好与情人幽会。
  4. He reportedly called her 'a lying little twit'.
     据说他称她是“满嘴谎话的可恶白痴”。
• VERB （事物）造成假象，不可靠
  If you say that somethinglies, you mean that it does not express or represent something accurately.
  1. The camera can sometimes lie.
     照相机拍出的照片有时也未必可靠。
• See also:lying
• PHRASE 戳穿；揭穿；证明…不实
  If somethinggives the lie toa statement, claim, or theory, it suggests or proves that it is not true.
  1. 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。
• PHRASE 虚伪地生活；活在谎言之中
  If you say that someoneis living a lie, you mean that in every part of their life they are hiding the truth about themselves from other people.
  1. 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。
• CONVENTION （用于纠正口误）不对，我说错了
  People sometimes say 'I tell a lie' when they have just made a mistake in something that they are saying and immediately correct it.
  1. 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。

双语例句

• The main problem, I believe, lies elsewhere
  主要的问题，我认为，出在别的地方。
• His belief is that the future of the Community lies in looking outwards.
  他认为该共同体的未来在于对外发展。
• The country's salvation lies in forcing through democratic reforms
  拯救国家的希望在于强制推行民主改革。
• We should not dismiss as lies the incredible stories that children may tell us.
  我们不应把孩子们告诉我们的一些不可思议的故事当成谎话而不予理睬。
• If you continue to tell lies, you will forfeit the good opinion of everyone.
  你如果继续撒谎，就会失掉大家对你的好感。
• We must be clear about where the responsibility lies.
  我们必须清楚责任所在。
• You are telling me lies to my very face.
  你在当着我的面撒谎。
• I seem to remember that Sam told a number of lies
  我好像记得萨姆说过不少谎话。
• The point is that people grew unaccustomed to thinking and acting in a responsible and independent way. Herein lies another big problem.
  关键是人们已不再习惯以一种负责任的、独立的方式去思考和行动。这其中就存在另一个大问题。
• He lies at rest in the Martyrs 'Cemetery.
  他在烈士陵园安息着。