lay是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 放, 放置, 安置, 下蛋，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：
-- May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it.
-- Scrooge lay in this state until the chime had gone three-quarters more, when he remembered, on a sudden, that the Ghost hadwarned him of a visitation when the bell tolled one.
-- All this time, he lay upon his bed, the very core and centre of a blaze of ruddy light, which streamed upon it when the clock pro-claimed the hour; and which, being only light, was more alarming than a dozen ghosts, as he was powerless to make out what it meant, or would be at; and was sometimes appre-hensive that he might be at that very moment an interesting case of spontaneous combustion, without having the con-solation of knowing it.
-- 'There are some upon this earth of yours,' returned the Spirit,' who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name, who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived.
-- 90 Sons and Lovers He recoiled in terror, for the scene had changed, and now he almost touched a bed: a bare, uncurtained bed: on which, beneath a ragged sheet, there lay a something covered up, which, though it was dumb, announced itself in awful lan-guage.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus did the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five conduct their Greatnesses, and myriads of small creatures the creatures of this chronicle among the rest along the roads that lay before them.
-- So the guard of the Dover mail thought to himself, A tale of two citiesthat Friday night in November, one thousand seven hun-dred and seventy-five, lumbering up Shooter's Hill, as he stood on his own particular perch behind the mail, beating his feet, and keeping an eye and a hand on the arm-chest before him, where a loaded blunderbuss lay at the top of six or eight loaded horse-pistols, deposited on a substratum of cutlass.
-- As the bank passenger with an arm drawn through the leathern strap, which did what lay in it to keep him from pounding against 17the next passenger, and driving him into his corner, when-ever the coach got a special jolt nodded in his place, with half-shut eyes, the little coach-windows, and the coach-lamp dimly gleaming through them, and the bulky bundle of opposite passenger, became the bank, and did a great stroke of business.
-- 'Pray,' said Mr. Lorry, in a soothing tone, bringing his left hand from the back of the chair to lay it on the supplica-tory fingers that clasped him in so violent a tremble: 'pray control your agitation a matter of business.
-- Mr. Lorry was so exceedingly disconcerted by a ques-tion so hard to answer, that he could only look on, at a distance, with much feebler sympathy and humility, while the strong woman, having banished the inn servants under the mysterious penalty of 'letting them know' something not mentioned if they stayed there, staring, recovered her charge by a regular series of gradations, and coaxed her to lay her drooping head upon her shoulder.
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：
-- It happened that where the Prince's father lay buried, there grew a rose tree a most beautiful rose tree, which blossomed only once in every five years, and even then bore only one flower, but that was a rose!It smelt so sweet that all cares and sorrows were forgotten by him who inhaled its fragrance.
-- Some wretched hovels for the Dutch sailors, resembling great boxes, and after which the place was named, lay about in confused disorder on the opposite bank.
-- He lay with his feet towards a doorway, and exactly opposite sat the watchman asleep.
-- Within, down it sunk per-pendicularly into a caldron, about a Danish mile in depth; while below lay a town, whose appearance we can, in some measure, realize to ourselves by beating the white of an egg in a glass Of water.
-- But when the watchman gave no reply, the merry roysterer, who was now returning home from a noisy drinking bout, took it into his bead to try what a tweak of the nose would do, on which the supposed sleeper lost his balance, the body lay motionless, stretched out on the pavement: the man was dead.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He walked on a few steps, and the skating-ground lay open before his eyes, and at once, amidst all the skaters, he knew her.
-- When she went upstairs to dress, and looked into the looking-glass, she noticed with joy that it was one of her good days, and that she was in complete possession of all her forces,--she needed this so for what lay before her: she was conscious of external composure and free grace in her movements.
-- She remembered the love for her of the man she loved, and once more all was gladness in her soul, and she lay on the pillow, smiling with happiness.
-- He felt this at the mere sight of Ignat and the horses; but when he had put on the sheepskin brought for him, had sat down wrapped in the sledge, and had driven off pondering on the work that lay before him in the village, and staring at the side-horse, that had been his saddle-horse, past his prime now, but a spirited beast from the Don, he began to see what had happened to him in quite a different light.
-- He knew only that he had told her the truth, that he had come where she was, that all the happiness of his life, the only meaning in life for him, now lay in seeing and hearing her.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A range of hills lay against the sky in the horizon, and soon the rows of palms which adorn Bombay came distinctly into view.
-- The Parsee, leading the others, noiselessly crept through the wood, and in ten minutes they found themselves on the banks of a small stream, whence, by the light of the rosin torches, they perceived a pyre of wood, on the top of which lay the embalmed body of the rajah, which was to be burned with his wife.
-- Men, women, and children lay together.
-- They lay down at the foot of a tree, and waited.
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