She walked across the floor and lay down on the bed.

她走过地板躺在了床上。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

He lay on the floor groaning.

他躺在地板上呻吟。

《牛津词典》

The book lay open on the table.

书摊开在桌子上。

《牛津词典》

So you would say in the past tense "I lay on the bed because I was tired."

VOA: special.2010.02.11

And so they lay. 1853. Let's get Angstrom up on the board here since he did the work.

因此在183年这些就存在了，让我们把阿姆斯特朗,写到黑板上来，鉴于他做的这个工作。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

On the three thousand two hundred eighty-seventh night of your Parisian affair, as I lay in Simois-mud picking vermin off the wound I got that day from cunning Pandarus, exhaustion closed my eyes.

在你和帕里斯发生关系后的第三千两百八十七夜,那个日子是狡猾的潘达洛斯告诉我的,我正躺在西摩伊斯河岸边，拣伤口上的虱子,疲惫让我闭上了眼睛。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Good as these chapters are, they make heavy demands on the lay reader.

ECONOMIST: Nobel prizes

As insights go, this may seem obvious, but Mr. Coase would eventually receive the Nobel Prize, in 1991, for pointing out what wasn't actually obvious in the 1930s and for going on to lay the foundation for institutional economics.

WSJ: Book Review: The Org

They also received objections from Sport England, who said the turbines may impact on existing sports pitches on the site, and East Midlands Airport, who said the site lay on a flight path and the turbines may interfere with air traffic control radars.

BBC: University of Nottingham's wind farm plans rejected