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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The ewes lay dead and dying at its foot a heap of two hundred mangled carcasses, representing in their condition just now at least two hundred more.
-- Bathsheba had probably left Weatherbury long before this time, but the place had enough interest attaching to it to lead Oak to choose Shottsford fair as his next field of inquiry, because it lay in the Weatherbury quarter.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You will read the story of Father Goriot's secret woes, and, dining thereafter with an unspoiled appetite, will lay the blame of your insensibility upon the writer, and accuse him of exaggeration, of writing romances.
-- Vauquer lay down to rest on the day of M. Goriot's installation, her heart, like a larded partridge, sweltered before the fire of a burning desire to shake off the shroud of Vauquer and rise again as Goriot.
-- Thus equipped for the campaign, the widow looked exactly like the prize animal hung out for a sign above an a la mode beef shop; but she herself was so much pleased with the improvement, as she considered it, in her appearance, that she felt that she lay under some obligation to the Countess; and, though by no means open-handed, she begged that lady to accept a hat that cost twenty francs.
-- Father Goriot looked sadly at his handiwork, tears fell from his eyes, he blew out the dip which had served him for a light while he manipulated the silver, and Eugene heard him sigh as he lay down again.
-- de Restaud's face swam again and again before his eyes like a vision of a brilliant future; and at last he lay down and slept with clenched fists.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We accordingly lay to, hoping that some change would take place in the atmosphere and weather.
-- We, however, lay to until the morning, fearing to en-counter in the dark those large loose masses which float about after the breaking up of the ice.
-- The interval was, consequently, spent in inaction; his grief only became more deep and rankling when he had leisure for reflection, and at length it took so fast hold of his mind that at the end of three months he lay on a bed of sickness, incapable of any exertion.
-- I prepared myself for a multitude of reverses; my operations might be incessantly baffled, and at last my work be imperfect, yet when I considered the improvement which every day takes place in science and mechanics, I was encouraged to hope my present attempts 53would at least lay the foundations of future success.
-- With an anxiety that al-most amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A little aloof, as became an aristocrat, lay ablack-spotted carriage dog, muzzle on paws, patiently waiting for the boys to go home to supper.
-- The moist hungryearth, waiting upturned for the cotton seeds, showed pinkish on the sandy tops of furrows, vermilion and scarlet andmaroon where shadows lay along the sides of the trenches.
-- The horses, feeling slackreins, stretched down their necks to crop the tender spring grass, and the patient hounds lay down again in the soft reddust and looked up longingly at the chimney swallows circling in the gathering dusk.
-- They were completely fearless of wild horses, shooting affrays and theindignation of their neighbors, but they had a wholesome fear of their red-haired mother's outspoken remarks and theriding crop that she did not scruple to lay across their breeches.
-- I'll lay you two to one she didn't even know the fort was out there in the harbor, much less that itwas full of Yankees until we shelled them out.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On every rail and gate, wet lay clammy, and the marsh mist was so thick, that the wooden finger on the post directing people to our village--a direction which they never accepted, for they never came there--was invisible to me until I was quite close under it.
-- "You would have been disposed of for so many shillings according to the market price of the article, and Dunstable the butcher would have come up to you as you lay in your straw, and he would have whipped you under his left arm, and with his right he would have tucked up his frock to get a penknife from out of his waistcoat-pocket, and he would have shed your blood and had your life.
-- I heard Mr. Hubble remark that "a bit of savory pork pie would lay atop of anything you could mention, and do no harm," and I heard Joe say, "You shall have some, Pip."
-- Three or four soldiers who lay upon it in their great-coats were not much interested in us, but just lifted their heads and took a sleepy stare, and then lay down again.
-- In his lay capacity, he persisted in sitting down in the damp to such an insane extent, that when his coat was taken off to be dried at the kitchen fire, the circumstantial evidence on his trousers would have hanged him, if it had been a capital offence.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All went right, and the groom lay snoring with his hand upon the golden saddle.
-- Then the old fox came once more, and scolded him for not following his advice; otherwise no evil would have be-fallen him: 'Yet,' said he, 'I cannot leave you here, so lay hold of my tail and hold fast.'
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