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lie

英 [laɪ]

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vi. 躺；说谎；位于；展现
vt. 谎骗
n. 谎言；位置
n. (Lie)人名；(罗、挪、瑞典)利；(中)李(普通话·威妥玛)

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they lay more emphasis on commitment and devotion

Where did Mr Jobs's great strength lie?

Things get stolen when it is easy to steal them because they are left lying around unwatched.

Increasingly, science indicates that genes lay the groundwork for many human traits.

Lying to employers and family about activities.

It lies seven miles east of Newton.

"Make your own way"," Stand on your own two feet" or my mother's favorite remark when I was face-to-face with consequences of some action: Now that you've made your bed, lie on it.

But the store manger laid the evil eye on us.

For example, she would say, you'll get a spot on your tongue if you tell a lie; if you eat stale bread, your hair will curl.

Clearly, richer societies are able to provide environmental improvements which lie well beyond the reach of poorer communities.

The problem with lighting, if it arises, often doesn't lie in light sources but in their applications.

Part of the fault lies with our inner caveman.

Nick Perks, project director for Climate Solidarity, believes this sort of activity is where the future of environmental action lies.

But in practice, our brain discounts the risks — and benefits — associated with issues that lie some way ahead.

Private spaceflight could lie within reach of rich civilians in a few years.

Down that path lies economic decline.

When asked straightforwardly, people tend to lie or shade the truth when the subject is sex, money or employment.

people tend to lie when talking on the phone

Around the same time, I noticed that those who part with $2285 a night to stay in a cliff-top room at the Post Ranch Inn in Big Sur, California, pay partly for the privilege of not having a TV in their rooms; the future of travel, I'm reliably told, lies in "black-hole resorts," which charge high prices precisely because you can't get online in their rooms

At the heart of the debate over illegal immigration lies one key question: are immigrants good or bad for the economy?

According to Valerie Gauthier, associate dean at HEC Paris, the key lies in the process by which MBA programmes recruit their students

So when fly the north, they might lay eggs in Louisiana and die.

They start to lay eggs when they are nine months old

Only the strongest can reach their destination to lay eggs.

Later working together in London, they laid the foundations of modern physics by showing that normal laws of cause and effect do not apply at the level of subatomic particles.

They lay great emphasis on hard work.

Last year, Andrea's husband, Rick, a miner in Nevada was laid off.

She injured her spine in a fall and a doctor told her to lie flat on her back for a month so it can mend.

Make your own way"," Stand on your own two feet" or my mother's favorite remark when I was face-to-face with consequences of some action: Now that you've made your bed, lie on it.

Within samples collected from the solid substances lying beneath the ice.

And we are less likely to lie when we have moral reminders or when we think others are watching.

But in practice, our brain discounts the risks —and benefits — associated with issues that lie some way ahead.

But others opted to lie, and they showed increased activity in their frontal parietal (颅腔壁的) control network, which is involved in difficult or complex thinking.

But surely everyone reading this has had times when you lie in bed for hours, unable to fall asleep because your brain is thinking about work.

Enormous opportunities also lie with e-waste.

External conditions also matter in terms of when and how often we lie.

If after work you lie around on your bed and get irritated by political commentary on your phone or get stressed thinking about decisions about how to renovate your home, your brain has not received a break from high mental arousal states.

If you lie in bed for eight hours, you may have rested, but you can still feel exhausted the next day.

Psychologists call them "masters of deception", those rare individuals with a natural ability to tell, with complete confidence, when someone is telling a lie.

The amygdala is a crucial part of the brain that produces fear, anxiety and emotional responses including that sinking, guilty feeling you get when you lie.

This means that if you give people multiple opportunities to lie for their own benefit, they start with little lies which get bigger over time.

We are more likely to lie, research shows, when we are able to rationalise it, when we are stressed and fatigued or sec others being dishonest.

And I've found that the possibilities that lie within books are limitless.

At the heart of the phenomenon lie tiny marine microorganisms (海洋微生物) called phytoplankton.

But it may well be that the learning you really want lies somewhere else instead.

Don't let gossip turn into lies.

He added that Jason lost money because he would not tell a lie.

He lost sale of twenty papers because he would not tell a lie, but got a well-paid job because he told the truth.

He thought of his bird with no seeds and the cake he wanted to buy for his mother, but was determined that he would not tell a lie.

However, if others benefit in the process, and I get some reward too, does it really matter where my motivation lies?

I saw there were two instructors on board and a man lying across the middle.

If they tell you otherwise, they're lying and will probably change what they want to purse within the first quarter of attendance.

In fact, the key to easy morning wake-up lies in resting your body clock.

In his modernist view, beauty lies in simplicity and elegance, and the aim of the designer is to create solutions to problems through the most efficient means.

Obediently, my class lay their heads on their desks, closed their eyes and waited.

Others build a large, clear mass of non-living jelly-lie material and spread themselves over it.

People often think of gossipers as harmless, but cruel lies can cause pain.

Probably the worst type of gossip is the absolute lie.

Rideout's research interest lies in electric engineering.

Scott's last journey, completed as he lay in a tent dying of cold and hunger, caught the world's imagination, and a film made in his honor drew crowds.

She hopes to inspire the jamaicans to lay down their weapons.

So far there is no effective way to get rid of it, but a new study suggests an answer may lie in the stomachs of some hungry worms.

The attraction of the cloisters museum and gardens lies in the fact that its collections date from the middle ages.

Then lay the tube in place so that one end rests all the way in the cup and the rest of the line runs up — and out — the side of the hole.

There is no doubt that this candidate's advantage lies in his ability to communicate with foreigners in English.

They could help promote other industries whether they lie inside or outside arts.

This is the most ambitious goal for temperature rise set by the Paris agreement, after a push by low-lying island nations like Kiribati, which say limiting temperature rise to ?

Using expansive gestures with open arms makes us feel more powerful, crossing your arms makes you more determined and lying down can bring more insights.

While Harold and Erica are certainly not strong or memorable characters, the more serious problems with the social animal lie elsewhere.

With great interest, he read everything he could lay his hands on, listened to the town elders and learned about the world beyond his tiny hometown.

You'd better lie back still for a while.

Airborne technologies, such as different types of radar and photographic equipment carried by airplanes or spacecraft, allow archaeologists to learn about what lies beneath the ground without digging.

The same curiosity to find what lies beyond the horizon that first brought early Polynesians to Hawaii’s shores inspires astronomers today to explore the heavens.

About a third say the problem of fake news lies in.

That's a lie that we have perpetuated, and it fosters commonness.