The source of Roman obsession with unity and cohesion may well have lain in the pattern of Rome's early development.

罗马人执着于团结和凝聚力很可能起源于罗马的早期发展模式。

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In this pitiable state I must have lain for what you call hours — with us there are no hours, there is no time.

在那种可怜的情况下我大概躺了好几个小时，这是你们的说法——对我们而言，无所谓小时。我们没有时间。

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It felt as if he had only just lain down, but the room was hot and stuffy with the bright warmth of the sun.

他感觉就好像是自己刚刚躺下不久，房间里很热，屋子里充斥着阳光带来的明亮与热量。

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But the challenge has always lain with the first half of Lincoln's phrase--that is, how to stoke that genius through a system that both rewards the inventor with a temporary business monopoly and protects the competition that lies at the heart of the free-market system.

FORBES: The smother of invention

As a child I had spent my evenings at home doing schoolwork, or trying to get a picture on the black and white TV, as a teenager I'd lain in my room fiddling with my yellow transistor radio, waiting for my favourite tunes.

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