They were lying in ambush , waiting for the aid convoy.

他们埋伏起来，等着袭击增援车队。

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They were lying.

他们在躺在地上。

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He told her: "Well, these darned cigarette people finally did it. They were lying all the time."

他告诉她：好吧，这些可恨的卖烟的人真的这么干了，他们一直在撒谎。

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Afzali is accused of lying when, during an FBI interview, he said he did not tell the father and son they were subjects of interest to authorities.

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They were looking down into a lowered place, where something white was lying, squirming a little, in a box lined with black cloth.

他们在往低处看,在一个围着黑布的箱子里，好像有什么白色的东西躺在里面，微微地蠕动，在很短的时间内。

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They were lying in bed, motionless, watching television or staring in space.

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No, in the post-Madoff era they were lying low, but they were launching a virtual film center, and I could write for the new site when it took wing.

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In a recent study by the developmental psychologist Laurence Steinberg at Temple University, teenagers did a simulated high-risk driving task while they were lying in an fMRI brain-imaging machine.

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