| 单词 | lie |
| 释义 | lie I. intransitive verb 1. a. < lie motionless > < lie asleep > < lie dead > < lies in his grave > b. c. archaic d. archaic e. < lie in wait for deer > < lie in ambush > f. of a game bird < lie to the gun > < lie to a point > 2. a. < the town lay at the mercy of the invader > < lying in prison > b. < the house lay under a curse > < lying under a cruel despotism > 3. of an inanimate thing < books lying on the table > < snow lies on the fields > < leaves lay thick on the ground > 4. < the route lay to the west > < thought of the empty hours that lay ahead > < the grain of the wood lay crosswise > 5. a. < easterly oases … lie close to or below sea level — W.B.Fisher > < the song lies well within his range > < meadows lying along the river > < mountains lay between us and our goal > < that way madness lies — Shakespeare > b. < motive that lay behind his actions > < questions lies outside the scope of our inquiry > < real reason lies deeper > c. < remorse lay heavily on his conscience > < her years lay lightly upon her > < your time will not lie heavy upon your hands — Jonathan Swift > d. law < action for libel will lie in such cases > < appeal usually lies to the supreme or high court of the colony — W.E.Simnett > 6. a. < fleet lying in the harbor > b. < able to lie closer to the wind than the other yachts > < the more a ship is trimmed by the stern the farther she will lie off the wind — Manual of Seamanship > c. 7. < choice lay between fighting or surrendering > : belong, pertain, consist — used with in < felt that his future lay in teaching > < tried with all the strength that lay in him > 8. < field lying fallow > < machinery lying idle > < talent lay hid > especially < unsold goods lying on the shelves > < money lying in the bank > or uncared-for < left his tools lying about > < dishes lying in the sink > 9. a. now dialect < near dark, the wind lies — G.S.Perry > b. of wind < came out to see where the wind lay > 10. obsolete transitive verb 1. now chiefly dialect 2. of a ship • - lie low II. 1. < lie of a golf ball > < lie of a ball in lawn bowling > < lie of a stone in curling > < lie of fibers in felted pulp > < lie of the cards in a bridge deal > 2. chiefly Britain < lie of the land > 3. < a fine trout lie > 4. Britain < I have clearly in mind the coldest lie I have so far met — Thomas Skelton > especially < why didn't you take a lie in your bed a morning like that — Michael McLaverty > 5. III. intransitive verb 1. < man is the only animal … that habitually lies — Leo Stein > 2. < unless these figures lie > < that thermometer must be lying > transitive verb < men have been lied out of office > < managed to lie himself out of trouble > Synonyms: < children sometimes lie to avoid punishment > < the camera can cheat and lie with all the success and assurance of a confidence trickster — Richard Harrison > prevaricate is commonly used to evade the insulting bluntness of lie, but also can imply evasion of truth as by quibbling or confusing the issue < he could prevaricate no longer, and, confessing to the gambling, told her the truth — Thomas Hardy > equivocate implies evasion by the use of words or remarks with double meanings in the hope that an incorrect one will be understood < he was wholly in sympathy with Congregationalism, and had no mind to conceal or equivocate concerning its democratic tendencies — V.L.Parrington > or by the use of talk which avoids committing one to anything. palter implies a falseness or unreliability in statements or dealings < if insanity is not to be a defense, let us say so frankly and even brutally, but let us not mock ourselves with a definition that palters with reality — B.N.Cardozo > fib is often used as an innocuous equivalent of lie but more often implies telling a trivial, insignificant, or socially necessary untruth < the government admitted the laboratory, but … may be fibbing patriotically, of course — Time > • - lie in one's throat IV. 1. a. < his story was a tissue of lies, evasions, and exaggerations > < his decent reticence is branded as hypocrisy, his circumlocutions are roundly called lies — W.S.Maugham > < believes … that men have petty larceny forever in their hearts and lies forever in their mouths — Bergen Evans > < any printed lie that any notorious villain pens — Charles Dickens > b. < often suspected that history was mostly lies anyway > 2. < his pose of humility was a lie > 3. < threw the lie in his face > |
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