On the bed lay Peter fast asleep.

床上躺着熟睡的彼得。

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Seaton lay on his bed and gazed at the ceiling as the light faded.

西顿躺在床上凝视着天花板， 那时光线逐渐变暗。

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She walked across the floor and lay down on the bed.

她走过地板躺在了床上。

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Later that day, Sue came to the bed where Johnsy lay, and put one arm around her.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

So you would say in the past tense "I lay on the bed because I was tired."

VOA: special.2010.02.11

His head began to ache, and Mister Mindon lay down on the bed.

VOA: special.2010.05.29

It was only when I got home at midnight and lay on the bed with my sleeping five-year-old daughter that the tension of the day gave way to fear of what was to come.

BBC: Remembering the Pentagon attack

She lay down on the bed, her feelings concentrated at the forefront of her mind like an immensely weighted black point, incomprehensible.

NEWYORKER: In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

He circuited the double bed and closed the shutters and the window and drew the curtain, and, as he darkened the room, he unbuttoned his shirt and undid his belt and he also removed his shoes and undressed and lay down on the bed beside his ancient mother.

NEWYORKER: Heirs