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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Phileas Fogg and his companions, mingling in the rear ranks of the crowd, followed; and in two minutes they reached the banks of the stream, and stopped fifty paces from the pyre, upon which still lay the rajah's corpse.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her father lay shrinking with fever on the floor of the wagon-box, and about him played her brothers and sisters, dirty brats, tattered brats, hilarious brats.
-- As he lay in his narrow upper bunk at midnight, he saw her eyes, now impertinent, now reproving, now warm with trust in him.
-- He was noisy in the living-room, he was noisy in the bath, and with some sacrifice he lay awake pretending to snore.
-- He laughed at it, he remembered with professional scorn how foolish were the lay visitors to the laboratory, who believed that sanguinary microbes would leap upon them from the mysterious centrifuge, from the benches, from the air itself.
-- By midsummer they were firmly re-engaged and, though he was slightly disturbed by the cashier, a young and giggling Wisconsin school-teacher with ankles, he so longed for Madeline that he lay awake thinking of giving up his job and fleeing to her caresses-- lay awake for minutes at a time.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the counter lay some sliced cu-cumber, some pieces of dried black bread, and some fish, chopped up small, all smelling very bad.
-- A month ago when Mr. Lebeziatnikov beat my wife with his own hands, and I lay drunk, didn't I suffer?
-- She did not utter a word, she did not even look at her, she simply picked up our big green drap de dames shawl (we have a shawl, made of drap de dames), put it over her head and face and lay down on the bed with her face to the wall; only her little shoulders and her body kept shudder-ing芒聙娄.
-- And then I saw, young man, I saw Katerina Ivanovna, in the same si-lence go up to Sonia's little bed; she was on her knees all the evening kissing Sonia's feet, and would not get up, and then they both fell asleep in each other's arms 芒聙娄 together, to-gether 芒聙娄 yes 芒聙娄 and I 芒聙娄 lay drunk.'
-- I lay down for a nap after dinner and what do you think: though Katerina Ivanovna had quarrelled to the last degree with our landlady Amalia Fyodorovna only a week before, she could not resist then asking her in to coffee.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I lay in my basket, and my mother lay in her bed; but BetseyTrotwood Copperfield was for ever in the land of dreams andshadows, the tremendous region whence I had so lately travelled;and the light upon the window of our room shone out upon the 19earthly bourne of all such travellers, and the mound above theashes and the dust that once was he, without whom I had neverbeen.
-- I might have a misgiving that I am 'meandering' in stopping to saythis, but that it brings me to remark that I build these conclusions,in part upon my own experience of myself; and if it should appearfrom anything I may set down in this narrative that I was a child ofclose observation, or that as a man I have a strong memory of mychildhood, I undoubtedly lay claim to both of these characteristics.
-- It looked rather spongy and soppy, I thought, as Icarried my eye over the great dull waste that lay across the river;and I could not help wondering, if the world were really as roundas my geography-book said, how any part of it came to be so flat.
-- I felt the words of my lessons slipping off, not one by one, or lineby line, but by the entire page; I tried to lay hold of them; but theyseemed, if I may so express it, to have put skates on, and to skimaway from me with a smoothness there was no checking.
-- It lay heavier on my breast than if I hadbeen a most atrocious criminal, I dare say.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He reads the Agricultural Reports, and some other books that lay in one of the window seats but he reads all them to himself.
-- For a little while Emma persevered in her silence; but beginning to apprehend the bewitching flattery of that letter might be too powerful, she thought it best to say, 'I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.
-- It is such enjoyment to them, that if their uncle did not lay down the rule of their taking turns, whichever began would never give way to the other.'
-- 'My dearest Emma, do not pretend, with your sweet tem-per, to understand a bad one, or to lay down rules for it: you must let it go its own way.
-- The first error and the worst lay at her door.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On Sundays he was a man of misty views, rather given to postponing, and hampered by his best clothes and umbrella: upon the whole, one who felt himself to occupy morally that vast middle space of Laodicean neutrality which lay between the Communion people of the parish and the drunken section, that is, he went to church, but yawned privately by the time the congregation reached the Nicene creed, and thought of what there would be for dinner when he meant to be listening to the sermon.
-- It may be mentioned that Oak's fob being difficult of access, by reason of its somewhat high situation in the waistband of his trousers (which also lay at a remote height under his waistcoat), the watch was as a necessity pulled out by throwing the body to one side, compressing the mouth and face to a mere mass of ruddy flesh on account of the exertion required, and drawing up the watch by its chain, like a bucket from a well.
-- Beside the provisions lay the flute, whose notes had lately been called forth by the lonely watcher to beguile a tedious hour.
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