While working on her first novel, The Lying Days, Gordimer had started to write short stories, and in 1951 had one accepted by the New Yorker.

在写她的第一篇小说《说谎的日子》时，戈迪墨开始在写一些短篇小说，在1951年其中有一篇在《纽约客》发表。

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She has been lying in bed for three days.

她已经在床上躺了三天了。

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He has been lying there for 3 days.

他躺在那儿三天了。

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During three days of lying in state, 321, 360 people filed past Churchill's coffin.

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His body was found lying face down off a path 10 days after he disappeared by a man walking his dog.

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