They were lying.

他们在躺在地上。

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They promised we'd get free drinks every day at our hotel but they were lying through their teeth.

他们承诺在酒店里，我们每天都有免费的饮料喝，但他们是在睁眼说瞎话。

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They promised we'd get free drinks every day at our hotel but they were lying through their teeth.

他们的承诺是，我们每天都能在酒店获得免费饮料，可是这根本是他们的满口谎话。

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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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