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。
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was my lot first of all to fall into pretty good company in London, which does not always happen to such loose and misguided young fellows as I then was; the devil generally not omitting to lay some snare for them very early; but it was not so with me.
-- She sailed with what we call a shoulder-of-mutton sail; and the boom jibed over the top of the cabin, which lay very snug and low, and had in it room for him to lie, with a slave or two, and a table to eat on, with some small lockers to put in some bottles of such liquor as he thought fit to drink; and his bread, rice, and coffee.
-- After all, Xury's advice was good, and I took it; we dropped our little anchor, and lay still all night; I say still, for we slept none; for in two or three hours we saw vast great creatures (we knew not what to call them) of many sorts, come down to the sea-shore and run into the water, wallowing and washing themselves for the pleasure of cooling themselves; and they made such hideous howl-ings and yellings, that I never indeed heard the like.
-- As I had been one voyage to this coast before, I knew very well that the islands of the Canaries, and the Cape de Verde Islands also, lay not far off from the coast.
-- Several times I was obliged to land for fresh water, after we had left this place; and once in particular, being early in morning, we came to an anchor under a little point of land, which was pretty high; and the tide beginning to flow, we lay still to go farther in.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Dashwood's disappointment was, at first, severe; but his temper was cheerful and sanguine; and he might reasonably hope to live many years, and by living economically, lay by a considerable sum from the produce of an estate already large, and capable of almost immediate improvement.
-- I'll lay my life that he meant nothing farther; indeed, it would be very strange and unreasonable if he did.
-- I would lay fifty guineas the letter was of his own writing."
-- I would lay any wager it is about Miss Williams.
-- Depend upon it that whatever unemployed sum may remain, when I make up my accounts in the spring, I would even rather lay it uselessly by than dispose of it in a manner so painful to you.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he went off into the longest speech he had yet indulged in, concerning the lay of Chicago.
-- She was glad to be out of the flat, because already she felt that it was a narrow, humdrum place, and that interest and joy lay elsewhere.
-- His fine success as a salesman lay in his geniality and the thoroughly reputable standing of his house.
-- The best room looked out upon the lawn of the park, now sear and brown, where a little lake lay sheltered.
-- He was merely floating those gossamer threads of thought which, like the spider's, he hoped would lay hold somewhere.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He used to lay drunk with the hogs in the tanyard, but he hain't been seen in these parts for a year or more.'
-- One time Tom sent a boy to run about town with a blazing stick, which he called a slogan (which was the sign for the Gang to get together), and then he said he had got secret news by his spies that next day a whole parcel of Spanish merchants and rich A-rabs was going to camp in Cave Hollow with two hundred elephants, and six hun-dred camels, and over a thousand 'sumter' mules, all loaded down with di'monds, and they didn't have only a guard of four hundred soldiers, and so we would lay in ambuscade, as he called it, and kill the lot and scoop the things.
-- All right, then; I WOULD come; but I lay I'd make that man climb the highest tree there was in the country.'
-- I'll lay for you, my smarty; and if I catch you about that school I'll tan you good.
-- When he had got out on the shed he put his head in again, and cussed me for putting on frills and trying to be better than him; and when I reckoned he was gone he come back and put his head in again, and told me to mind about that school, because he was going to lay for me and lick me if I didn't drop that.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With your strong beak, break the knot which holds him tied, take him down, and lay him softly on the grass at the foot of the oak."
-- An immense Serpent lay stretched across the road--a Serpent with a bright green skin, fiery eyes which glowed and burned, and a pointed tail that smoked like a chimney.
-- In its place lay a small marble slab, which bore this sad inscription: HERE LIES THE LOVELY FAIRY WITH AZURE HAIR WHO DIED OF GRIEF WHEN ABANDONED BY HER LITTLE BROTHER PINOCCHIO The poor Marionette was heartbroken at reading these words.
-- Then he swallowed him so fast that Pinocchio, falling down into the body of the fish, lay stunned for a half hour.
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