Dirty dishes lay on the taBle.

茶杯碟在桌子上。

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A card of mine lay on the table; this being perceived, brought my name under discussion.

桌上放着我的一张名片，他们一看见便谈论起我来了。

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Gradually the argument became more heated. It was about a book which lay on the table in front of them.

他们越争越激烈，争的是他们面前桌上摆着的书。

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The President can't lay on the table savings to pay for health care that the government doesn't pay.

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He looked dapper in a dark suit and tie and proved a gracious host, speaking excellent, if not always idiomatic, English for 90 minutes in his suite at the posh Carlyle Hotel, where a lesser-known novel by Alexandre Dumas lay open on the coffee table and a stack of European films on DVD sat next to a flat-screen television.

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Rescuers would often arrive to eat and, exhausted, lay their heads on the table to sleep, he said.

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