lie是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vi. 躺， 平放； 处于； 位于v. 说谎n. 谎话，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My spirit never walked beyond our counting-house mark me! in life my spirit never roved beyond the narrow limits of our mon-ey-changing hole; and weary journeys lie before me!'
-- He resolved to lie awake until the hour was passed; and, considering that he could no more go to sleep than go to heaven, this was, perhaps, the wisest resolution in his power.
-- Martha, who was a poor apprentice at a milliner's, then told them what kind of work she had to do, and how many hours she worked at a stretch, and how she meant to lie abed to-morrow morning for a good long rest; to-morrow being a holiday she passed at home.
-- Having them shown to him in this way, he tried to say they were fine children, but the words choked themselves, rather than be parties to a lie of such enormous magnitude.
-- Scrooge listened again, thinking that the explanation might lie here.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had nestled down with him, that his head might lie upon her arm; and her hair drooping over him curtained him from the light.
-- In London, he had expected neither to walk on pave-ments of gold, nor to lie on beds of roses; if he had had any such exalted expectation, he would not have prospered.
-- So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star.
-- What money would be drawn out of Tellson's henceforth, and what would lie there, lost and forgotten; what plate and jewels would tarnish in Tellson's hiding-places, while the depositors rusted in prisons, and when they should have vi-olently perished; how many accounts with Tellson's never to be balanced in this world, must be carried over into the next; no man could have said, that night, any more than Mr. Jarvis Lorry could, though he thought heavily of these questions.
-- He occupied rooms in the Bank, in his fidelity to the House of which he had grown to be a part, lie strong root-ivy.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They lie close to the door.'
-- Were you never in the larder, where cheeses lie on the shelves, and hams hang from above; where one dances about on tallow candles: that place where one enters lean, and comes out again fat and portly?'
-- In the evening there was a hearse seen before the door, and he was borne into it in his coffin: he was now to go out into the country, to lie in his grave.
-- They had never been outside it, but they knew that there was still something 156 Andersen's Fairy Talesmore in the world, which was called the manor-house, and that there they were boiled, and then they became black, and were then placed on a silver dish; but what happened further they knew not; or, in fact, what it was to be boiled, and to lie on a silver dish, they could not possibly imag-ine; but it was said to be delightful, and particularly genteel.
-- Thou shalt always live with me in the palace, drive with me in my royal carriage, and have ten thousand pounds a year; but then thou must submit to be called SHADOW by all and everyone; thou must not say that thou hast ever been a man; and once a year, when I sit on the balcony in the sun-shine, thou must lie at my feet, as a shadow shall do!I must tell thee: I am going to marry the king's daughter, and the nuptials are to take place this evening!'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The further he rode, the happier he became, and plans for the land rose to his mind each better than the last; to plant all his fields with hedges along the southern borders, so that the snow should not lie under them; to divide them up into six fields of arable and three of pasture and hay; to build a cattle yard at the further end of the estate, and to dig a pond and to construct movable pens for the cattle as a means of manuring the land.
-- Sergey Ivanovitch liked to stretch himself on the grass in the sun, and to lie so, basking and chatting lazily.
-- But he could do nothing, and had to lie and look on and listen.
-- These principles laid down as invariable rules: that one must pay a cardsharper, but need not pay a tailor; that one must never tell a lie to a man, but one may to a woman; that one must never cheat anyone, but one may a husband; that one must never pardon an insult, but one may give one and so on.
-- "You had better lie down; you'd be easier," she said.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chance had strangely favoured Phileas Fogg, for had not the Carnatic been forced to lie over for repairing her boilers, she would have left on the 6th of November, and the passengers for Japan would have been obliged to await for a week the sailing of the next steamer.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now just between you and me and the gatepost, my vogue doesn't lie in real estate but in oratory.
-- Always an elaborately careful worker, a maker of long rows of figures, always realizing the presence of uncontrollable variables, always a vicious assailant of what he considered slackness or lie or pomposity, never too kindly to well-intentioned stupidity, he worked in the laboratories of Koch, of Pasteur, he followed the early statements of Pearson in biometrics, he drank beer and wrote vitriolic letters, he voyaged to Italy and England and Scandinavia, and casually, between two days, he married (as he might have bought a coat or hired a housekeeper) the patient and wordless daughter of a Gentile merchant.
-- The dread of Watters's patronage enabled Martin to lie vigorously: "Awfully sorry--awfully sorry--got a date for tomorrow evening and the next evening."
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