For instance,even native speakers are often not sure when to use "lie" and when to use "lay."

VOA: special.2010.02.11

Okay, so you caught me in a small white lie for pedagogical sake.

好的，所以你捕捉到我,以教育目的用了个善意的谎言。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Then, when much blood had clogged their chariot-wheels, I would go up and wash them from sweet wells, Even with truths that lie too deep for taint.

因此当大量的血液凝固，阻塞了战车前进的轮之际，我就要起身，用甘甜清澈的井水刷洗猩红，甚至是用深深隐藏在污点后的事实。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

They noted that the African Union has in the past approved an important convention, only to see it lie dormant for lack of ratification.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

So not only is there evolutionary pressure for me to lie to you, for me to persuade you for instance, that if we're going to have a conflict- if you are threatening me " "Don't threaten me, I am not the sort of man you could screw around with" But there's evolutionary pressure for you to look and say, "No. You are the sort of man you could screw around with.

因此，不仅存在着要求我对你说谎,的进化压力，比如，如果我们之间存有冲突-,当你威胁我时,我会说“别吓唬我，我可不是吃素“,而且还存在着要求你辨别谎言的进化压力,你会说，“不，你肯定不行。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

It was not Death, for I stood up, And all the Dead, lie down- It was not Night, for all the Bells Put out their Tongues, for Noon.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

(SAYING) On the southern coast - known as the Costa del Sol - block after block of apartments lie empty or half finished, many of them designed for foreign buyers who have long since abandoned the idea of investing in Spain.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24