| 单词 | lie |
| 释义 | 1. position or situation2. things that are not true lie (laɪ ) position or situation Word forms: lies , lying , lay , lain 1. verb A2 If you are lying somewhere, you are in a horizontal position and are not standing or sitting. There was a child lying on the ground. [VERB preposition/adverb] The injured man was lying motionless on his back. [VERB adjective] He lay awake watching her for a long time. [VERB adjective] Synonyms: recline, rest, lounge, couch 2. verb B1 If an object lies in a particular place, it is in a flat position in that place. ...a newspaper lying on a nearby couch. [VERB preposition/adverb] Broken glass lay scattered on the carpet. [VERB adjective] ...a two-page memo lying unread on his desk. [VERB adjective] Synonyms: be placed, be, rest, exist 3. verb B2 If you say that a place lies in a particular position or direction, you mean that it is situated there. The islands lie at the southern end of the Kurile chain. [VERB preposition/adverb] Synonyms: be situated, sit, be located, be positioned 4. link verb You can use lie to say that something is or remains in a particular state or condition. For example, if something lies forgotten, it has been and remains forgotten. She turned back to the Bible lying open in her lap. [VERB adjective] The picture lay hidden in the archives for over 40 years. [VERB adjective] His country's economy lies in ruins. [VERB preposition] 5. verb B2 You can use lie to say what position a competitor or team is in during a competition. [mainly British] I was going well and was lying fourth. [V ord] She is lying in second place. [VERB + in] 6. verb You can talk about where something such as a problem, solution, or fault lies to say what you think it consists of, involves, or is caused by. The problem lay in the large amounts spent on defence. [VERB preposition/adverb] He realised his future lay elsewhere. [VERB preposition/adverb] We must be clear about where the responsibility lies. [VERB preposition/adverb] Synonyms: exist, be present, consist, dwell [formal, literary] 7. verb You use lie in expressions such as lie ahead, lie in store, and lie in wait when you are talking about what someone is going to experience in the future, especially when it is something unpleasant or difficult. She'd need all her strength and bravery to cope with what lay in store. [VERB preposition/adverb] The President's most serious challenges lie ahead. [VERB preposition/adverb] 8. verb Lie is used in formal English, especially on gravestones, to say that a dead person is buried in a particular place. The inscription reads: Here lies Catin, the son of Magarus. [VERB preposition/adverb] My father lies in the small cemetery a few miles up this road. [VERB preposition/adverb] Synonyms: be buried, remain, rest, be 9. verb If you say that light, clouds, or fog lie somewhere, you mean that they exist there or are spread over the area mentioned. [literary] It had been wet overnight, and a morning mist lay on the field. [VERB preposition/adverb] 10. singular noun [with supplement, oft NOUN of noun] The lie of an object or area is its position or the way that it is arranged. The actual site of a city is determined by the natural lie of the land. 11. to let sleeping dogs lie phrase [let inflects] If someone tells you to let sleeping dogs lie, they are warning you not to disturb or interfere with a situation, because you are likely to cause trouble and problems. Why can't she let sleeping dogs lie? 12. to lie in state phrase If the dead body of an important person lies in state, it is publicly displayed for a few days before it is buried. 13. to take something lying down phrase If someone takes an insult or attack lying down, they accept it without protesting. The government is not taking such criticism lying down. Phrasal verbs: lie around regional note: in BRIT, also use lie about 1. phrasal verb If things are left lying around or lying about, they are not tidied away but left casually somewhere where they can be seen. People should be careful about their possessions and not leave them lying around. [VERB PARTICLE] My dad had a couple of Bob Dylan and Beatles songbooks lying around the house. [VERB PARTICLE noun] 2. phrasal verb If you lie around or lie about, you spend your time relaxing and being lazy. [informal] I'll just lie around in the sun. [VERB PARTICLE] On Sunday Cohen lay around the house all day. [VERB PARTICLE noun] lie back phrasal verb B2 If you lie back, you relax and lower yourself from a sitting position so that you are resting on your back. He lay back and closed his eyes. [VERB PARTICLE] lie behind phrasal verb If you refer to what lies behind a situation or event, you are referring to the reason the situation exists or the event happened. It seems that what lay behind the clashes was disagreement over the list of candidates. [VERB PARTICLE noun] lie down phrasal verb A2 When you lie down, you move into a horizontal position, usually in order to rest or sleep. Why don't you go upstairs and lie down for a bit? [VERB PARTICLE] lie (laɪ ) things that are not true Word forms: lies , lying , lied 1. countable noun B1 A lie is something that someone says or writes which they know is untrue. 'Who else do you work for?'—'No one.'—'That's a lie.' I've had enough of your lies. All the boys told lies about their adventures. Synonyms: falsehood, deceit, fabrication, fib 2. See also white lie 3. verb B1 If someone is lying, they are saying something which they know is not true. I know he's lying. [VERB] If asked, he lies about his age. [VERB + about] We are surprisingly poor at judging when people are lying to us. [VERB + to] He reportedly called her 'a lying little twit'. [VERB-ing] Synonyms: fib, fabricate, invent, misrepresent lying uncountable noun B2 Lying is something that I will not tolerate. Synonyms: deceitful, false, deceiving, treacherous Synonyms: dishonesty, perjury, deceit, fabrication 4. verb If you say that something lies, you mean that it does not express or represent something accurately. The camera can sometimes lie. [VERB] 5. See also lying 6. give the lie to phrase [VERB inflects, PHRASE noun] If something gives the lie to a statement, claim, or theory, it suggests or proves that it is not true. This survey gives the lie to the idea that the country is moving towards economic recovery. Synonyms: disprove, expose, discredit, contradict 7. to live a lie phrase [VERB inflects, usually cont] If you say that someone is living a lie, you mean that in every part of their life they are hiding the truth about themselves from other people. My mother never told my father the truth about me. We've been living a lie all this time. 8. I tell a lie convention People sometimes say 'I tell a lie' when they have just made a mistake in something that they are saying and immediately correct it. [British] It is the first scene of the play. I tell a lie, it's strictly speaking the second scene. Quotations: There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear itVarieties of Religious Experience Whoever would lie usefully should lie seldomMemoirs of the Reign of George II The lie in the soul is a true lieIntroduction to his translation of Plato's Republic I can't tell a lie, Pa; you know I can't tell a lie The broad mass of a nation.... will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small oneMein Kampf Every word she writes is a lie, including `and' and `the' It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lieDisenchantment Idioms: a white lie something which is untrue, that is often said in order to protect someone or to avoid hurting someone's feelings I believe that this is a case where a little white lie is really more appropriate than the truth. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers nail a lie [British, journalism] to show that something is definitely not true Space chiefs finally nailed the lie that astronauts never went to the Moon. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers live a lie to live in a way which you feel to be dishonest and false My mother never told my father the truth about me. We've been living a lie all this time, and now she has taken me from him. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers let sleeping dogs lie said to warn someone not to disturb or interfere with a situation, because they are likely to cause trouble and problems Why does she come over here stirring everything up? Why can't she let sleeping dogs lie? Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers someone has made their bed and will have to lie on it said to mean that someone has to accept the unpleasant results of a decision which they made at an earlier time Now he's lost me and the kids. But he's made his bed and he will have to lie in it. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers lie through your teeth to tell very obvious lies while appearing not to be embarrassed about this It's clear that the government are lying through their teeth. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: downright lie Later he admitted this was a downright lie. The Sun (2016) It's quite clear he won his Parliamentary seat with a massively increased majority entirely due to the downright lies and deceptions he practised on the voters. The Sun (2010) He told detectives: 'It's a downright lie - it did not happen. Times, Sunday Times (2015) She was practising lying flat on a board and jumping up. Times, Sunday Times (2016) Because the four cylinders in the engine lie flat, this car has a lower centre of gravity than is usual. Times, Sunday Times (2010) She was lying flat on her back, her angular hipbones further reproaching Moira's éclair. AN OLDER WOMAN (2001) Murphy is lying flat out with her skirt hitched up: tanning; ignoring her friend; her head pillowed by her folded pink cardigan. THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE (2001) We lay flat for a minute or two and did some more wiring before turning in. Times, Sunday Times (2015) Swaths of once picturesque streets lie in ruins. Times, Sunday Times The deal brought few improvements to life in the besieged region, where whole neighbourhoods still lie in ruins. Times, Sunday Times Many villages lie in ruins and the population has fled. Times, Sunday Times About 7,500 people were displaced by the fires and entire towns lie in ruins. Times, Sunday Times While some streets lie in ruins, neighbouring ones escaped unscathed. Times, Sunday Times Mostly people prefer to lie quietly while being shampooed. Times, Sunday Times For the next 18 hours he would lie quietly in the boat. Times, Sunday Times There they all were, minding their own business, lying quietly in millions of printers waiting to splutter to life (or not) at the push of a button. Times, Sunday Times These attacks may be alleviated by lying quietly with eyes closed for fifteen to thirty minutes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Recordings are made both fasting (usually 30 minutes) and after a meal (usually 60 minutes) with the patient lying quietly. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He was, they write, 'steeped in debt and sunk in controversy; he cheated and lied repeatedly'. Times, Sunday Times He claimed that he had been duped by the men he thought were his friends but when questioned by police he lied repeatedly. Times, Sunday Times I suppose when a person lies repeatedly. Times, Sunday Times Contradictions and oppositions lie side by side and do not cancel each other out. Times, Sunday Times On a nearby work surface, two legs lie side by side. Times, Sunday Times Amid the wood shavings and the tools of a craftsman's place of work, two bats lie side by side on a bench. Times, Sunday Times It's a lovely way to wake up - the city and its green spaces lie side by side, with the river nearby. The Sun They lie side by side, sunning themselves, using their elongated noses to jostle for position. Times,Sunday Times Or if a friend had to be exited from the business — where would your loyalties lie? Times, Sunday Times Now, when they need us, our loyalties lie elsewhere. The Sun After a while behind enemy lines, it's hard to know exactly where his loyalties lie. The Sun So where do you think his loyalties lie? The Sun It seems to have little or no idea, however, what it wants its identity to be or where its loyalties lie. Times, Sunday Times It was an obvious lie. Times, Sunday Times So has the shameless repetition of an obvious lie successfully 'parked' this story, making bores of those unwilling to move on? Times, Sunday Times The least sign of pressure applied in his case made him stubborn and produced only obvious lies. The Times Literary Supplement If that ever becomes a reality, then we will all have been sold the most outrageous lie. Times, Sunday Times His campaign was founded on this outrageous lie. Times, Sunday Times But this outrageous lie will not deceive anyone. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 My niece has taken to coming home from school and telling the most outrageous lies. Times, Sunday Times There are 40 million websites and 39.9 million tell lies, sometimes outrageous lies. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 All professional politicians know that an outright lie will end their career. Times, Sunday Times This wasn't an outright lie, but it was misleading. Times, Sunday Times She accuses the agency of an 'outright lie'. Times, Sunday Times But it was soon interpreted or taken up as a euphemism for an outright lie. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He called the episode outrageous distortion and an outright lie, as well as dangerous and irresponsible. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Politicians know they are peddling a lie when they say no one will have to sell their family home to pay for care. Times, Sunday Times (2014) I have instructed lawyers and I am not going to let this guy get away with peddling lies about me. The Sun (2011) We all know, of course, that the ads and the Christmas shop windows are peddling lies: throwing money at Christmas won't bring true happiness or change who we are. Times, Sunday Times (2007) You say it enough, you repeat the lie, you repeat the lie, you repeat the lie and eventually, people believe it. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 She repeated the lie in 2012. Times,Sunday Times Just because someone repeats a lie over and over again, it doesn't make it true. Times, Sunday Times Then he compounded the deception ten-fold by repeating the lie four days later. Times, Sunday Times Its only possible salvation lies in prostrating itself before the courts of public opinion and natural justice. Times, Sunday Times His salvation lies in more prosperity, not in he or his allies designing intricate political schemes to outwit their rivals. Times, Sunday Times That's where salvation lies, in recognising where they went wrong before. Times, Sunday Times Salvation lies ultimately in the integrity of a democratic state as repository of the collective id. Times, Sunday Times If it all gets a bit much, salvation lies just offshore. Times,Sunday Times The secret lies in the complexity of the written contracts, from my extensive experience. Times, Sunday Times The secret lies in the empty tracts of prime land that encircle many theme parks. Times, Sunday Times But its secret lies in its revolutionary location on the most stable part of the volcanic island. Times, Sunday Times I already know what narrative secret lies at the heart of that book. Times, Sunday Times The secret lies in its efforts to conserve the world's flora. Times, Sunday Times The solution lies in the money that created the problem. Times, Sunday Times The solution lies in our own, wellwashed hands. Times,Sunday Times Well, the solution lies squarely in his own hands. Times, Sunday Times Yet the true solution lies beyond these emergency measures. Times,Sunday Times The solution lies not in paying doctors more, which would allow even earlier retirement, but in training more doctors and paying them less. Times, Sunday Times When the other elders confronted him with the facts in an elders' meeting, he admitted he had spread the lie, and he resigned. Christianity Today The worst thing would be to spread the lie further. Times, Sunday Times Then he spread a lie hoping to rubbish the story. The Sun You're helping to spread their lies! Christianity Today Where do your political sympathies lie? Times, Sunday Times With whom do our sympathies lie? Christianity Today Me, my sympathies lie somewhere in between. Times, Sunday Times Where should our sympathies lie? Times, Sunday Times But for anyone who believes in free trade there ought to be no question where their sympathies lie. Times, Sunday Times Either that was a total lie or his input has been horrendously edited. The Sun It feels as though the last ten years have been a total lie. The Sun This, it later transpires, was a bold and total lie. The Times Literary Supplement It was a total lie. The Sun That wasn't a total lie. Times, Sunday Times This truth lies at the heart of this challenging, surprising and poetic novella. Times, Sunday Times As with most things, the truth lies somewhere in between. Times, Sunday Times Just as truth lies beyond the stage lights, eternal truth lies beyond the temporary horror of a totalitarian state. Christianity Today We're both hugely determined to get to the end of the rainbow, wherever the truth lies. Times,Sunday Times Fifty-six chapters in 230 pages makes it easy to read but leaves you perplexed, asking how much truth lies in this wonderful yet feasible tale. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 谎话, 躺 Japanese: 嘘, 嘘をつく |
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