to lie
Example Sentences
老猫吃饱了小鱼干后，慵懒地卧在洒满阳光的窗台软垫上闭目养神。
lǎo māo chī bǎo le xiǎo yú gàn hòu, yōng lǎn dì wò zài sǎ mǎn yáng guāng de chuāng tái ruǎn diàn shàng bì mù yǎng shén.
After the old cat had eaten its fill of dried fish, it lay lazily on the soft cushion on the window sill filled with sunshine and closed its eyes to rest.
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Related Words & Compounds
Bedroom
sleeper; sleeping berth
to hide (as an undercover agent) / an insider (in a gang of thieves) / a mole
to lie down / to drop to the ground
to lie in bed / bedridden / bed
bedroom
ill in bed; bed-ridden
(lit.) to sleep on brushwood and taste gall (like King Goujian of Yue 勾踐|勾践[Gou1 jian4], in order to recall one's humiliations) (idiom) / (fig.) to maintain one's resolve for revenge
(of an object or device) horizontal in design; intended to lie flat or operate in a lying position / (of an action) performed lying down
to lie across the railway tracks (to commit suicide or to prevent trains from getting through)
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