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Please help me lay the table.

请帮我摆桌子。

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Lay the table; we'll have dinner.

摆好了饭桌，我们要吃饭了。

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Soon after he had finished his work he sank into a chair by the side of the table upon which the body lay.

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He looked dapper in a dark suit and tie and proved a gracious host, speaking excellent, if not always idiomatic, English for 90 minutes in his suite at the posh Carlyle Hotel, where a lesser-known novel by Alexandre Dumas lay open on the coffee table and a stack of European films on DVD sat next to a flat-screen television.

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Rescuers would often arrive to eat and, exhausted, lay their heads on the table to sleep, he said.

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"My plea is that everyone be transparent, that they lay their cards on the table about how they produce, " she remarked during her visit to China.

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