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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He lay quiet for a moment.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After the first day we said little to one another, and lay in our places in the boat and stared at the horizon, or watched, with eyes that grew larger and more haggard every day, the misery and weakness gaining upon our companions.
-- I lay across one of the thwarts for I know not how long, thinking that if I had the strength I would drink sea-water and madden myself to die quickly.
-- And even as I lay there I saw, with no more interest than if it had been a picture, a sail come up towards me over the sky-line.
-- For an endless period, as it seemed to me, I lay with my head on the thwart watching the schooner (she was a lit-tle ship, schooner-rigged fore and aft) come up out of the sea.
-- The puma lay crouched together, watching us with shining eyes, a black heap in the corner of its cage.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mother Wolf lay with her big gray nose dropped across her four tumbling, squealing cubs, and the moon shone into the mouth of the cave where they all lived.
-- Akela, the great gray Lone Wolf, who led all the Pack by strength and cunning, lay out at full length on his rock, and below him sat forty or more wolves of every size and color, from badger-colored veterans who could handle a buck alone to young black three-year-olds who thought they could.
-- Perhaps Ikki the Porcupine had told him; but he said to Mowgli when they were deep in the jungle, as the boy lay with his head on Bagheera's beautiful black skin, 'Little Brother, how often have I told thee that Shere Khan is thy enemy?'
-- I remember now if it is not a dream how, before I was a Wolf, I lay beside the Red Flow-er, and it was warm and pleasant.'
-- Akela the Lone Wolf lay by the side of his rock as a sign that the leadership of the Pack was open, and Shere Khan with his following of scrap-fed wolves walked to and fro openly being flattered.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the latter, however, lay General Webb, who commanded the armies of the king in the northern provinces, with a body of more than five thousand men.
-- I lay claim to no higher gift than a small insight into the glorious art of petitioning and thanksgiving, as practiced in psalmody.'
-- A tomahawk and scalping knife, of English manufacture, were in his girdle; while a short military rifle, of that sort with which the policy of the whites armed their savage al-lies, lay carelessly across his bare and sinewy knee.
-- Some tribes lay great stress on the honor of strik-ing a dead body.
-- William Henry, man!if you are friends to the king and have business with the army, your way would be to follow the river down to Edward, and lay the matter before Webb, who tarries there, instead of pushing into the defiles, and driv-ing this saucy Frenchman back across Champlain, into his den again.'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the porkers he saw carved out the future sleek side of bacon, and juicy relishing ham; not a turkey but he beheld daintily trussed up, with its giz- zard under its wing, and, peradventure, a necklace of savory sausages; and even bright chanticleer himself lay sprawling on his back, in a side dish, with uplifted claws, as if crav- ing that quarter which his chivalrous spirit disdained to ask while living.
-- Brom, who had a degree of rough chivalry in his nature, would fain have carried matters to open warfare and have settled their pretensions to the lady, according to the mode of those most concise and simple reasoners, the knights-errant of yore, by single combat; but lchabod was too conscious of the superior might of his adversary to enter the lists against him; he had overheard a boast of Bones, that he would 'double the schoolmaster up, and lay him on a shelf of his own schoolhouse;' and he was too wary to give him an opportunity.
-- The wide bosom of the Tappan Zee lay motionless and glassy, excepting that here and there a gentle undulation waved and prolonged the blue shallow of the distant mountain.
-- He passed the tree in safety, but new perils lay before him.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Strickland was a weird figure as he lay there, thinner than ever, with his ragged red beard and his eyes staring feverishly into vacancy; his illness seemed to have made them larger, and they had an unnatural brightness.
-- He lay on his back; he did not speak.
-- Her hands lay on her lap motionless, one in the other loosely clasped.
-- The poor woman lay quite still, refusing to speak, with her eyes intent, as though she watched for the coming of death.
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