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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the forecastle lay the perfection of a breech-loading gun, very thick at the breech, and very narrow in the bore, the model of which had been in the Exhibition of 1867.
-- Small craft radiated in all directions round the Abraham Lincoln as she lay to, and did not leave a spot of the sea unexplored.
-- At eight o'clock the fog lay heavily on the waves, and its thick scrolls rose little by little.
-- I resolved then to husband our strength, so that both should not be exhausted at the same time; and this is how we managed: while one of us lay on our back, quite still, with arms crossed, and legs stretched out, the other would swim and push the other on in front.
-- For one hour a plain of sand lay stretched before us.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She lived a good deal by herself, to herself, working, passing on from day to day, and always thinking, trying to lay hold on life, to grasp it in her own understanding.
-- The latter took up a large, curved conch shell, that lay on a shelf, and without reference to anybody, blew a shattering blast.
-- When the sisters came to Willey Water, the lake lay all grey and visionary, stretching into the moist, translucent vista of trees and meadow.
-- He had rooms in Nottingham, because his work lay chiefly in that town.
-- The Pussum lay in her bed, motionless, her round, dark eyes like black, unhappy pools.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The latter had never been under drawn: its entire anatomy lay bare to an inquiring eye, except where a frame of wood laden with oatcakes and clusters of legs of beef, mutton, and ham, concealed it.
-- The snow lay yards deep in our road; and, as we floundered on, my companion wearied me with constant reproaches that I had not brought a pilgrim's staff: telling me that I could never get into the house without one, and boastfully flourishing a heavy headed cudgel, which I understood to be so denominated.
-- Heathcliff was dangerously sick; and while he lay at the worst he would have me constantly by his pillow: I suppose he felt I did a good deal for him, and he hadn't wit to guess that I was compelled to do it.
-- I persuaded him easily to let me lay the blame of his bruises on the horse: he minded little what tale was told since he had what he wanted.
-- Isabella I believe she is eleven, a year younger than Cathy lay screaming at the farther end of the room, shrieking as if witches were running red hot needles into her.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- exclaimed Alice, looking about in great perplexity, as first one round head, and then the other, rolled down from her shoulder, and lay like a heavy lump in her lap.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lay me back."
-- Before I could do much to help him he had fallen back again to his former place, where he lay for a while silent.
-- Well, then, you get on a horse, and go to well, yes, I will! to that eternal doctor swab, and tell him to pipe all hands magistrates and sich and he'll lay 'em aboard at the Admiral Benbow all old Flint's crew, man and boy, all on 'em that's left.
-- He gave it me at Savannah, when he lay a-dying, like as if I was to now, you see.
-- The hamlet lay not many hundred yards away, though out of view, on the other side of the next cove; and what greatly encouraged me, it was in an opposite direction from that whence the blind man had made his appearance and whither he had presumably returned.
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