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/ˈlaɪɪŋ/
The -ing form of the verb 'lie'. It means either saying things that are not true, or having your body flat on a surface like a bed or the floor.
說謊／躺著
-ing lying
核心畫面
Lying is the -ing form shared by two different verbs that happen to spell 'lie' the same way: one means telling something , the other means having your body flat on a surface. They are not really one picture — same spelling, two unrelated words — so 'lying' simply carries whichever 'lie' the sentence is about.
可以想成 lying 是兩個剛好都拼成 lie 的不同動詞共用的 -ing 形：一個 lie 是「說不實的話」，另一…更多收起
可以想成 lying 是兩個剛好都拼成 lie 的不同動詞共用的 -ing 形：一個 lie 是「說不實的話」，另一個 lie 是「身體平放在床上、地上」。它們其實不是同一個畫面——同樣的拼法，兩個不相關的字——所以 lying 只是依句子的意思，承接其中某一個 lie。原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
lyingnoun詞源 1/ˈlaɪ.ɪŋ/
- 1
The act of one who lies, or keeps low to the ground.
- 1854, Saint Augustine, Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXIV, translated by Philip Schaff et al. But whom could the lyings in wait of the human heart escape?
lyingnoun詞源 2/ˈlaɪ.ɪŋ/
- 1
An act or telling a lie or falsehood; the practice of telling lies.
- [W]hether a man would fain be pleased with sin, or be quiet and fearless when he hath sinned, or continue in it, or persuade others to it, he must do it by false propositions, by lyings, and such weak discourses as none can believe but such as are born fools, or such as have made themselves so, or are made so by others.
- Trump’s lying is no less constant or blatant than in 2016, but by now it feels familiar, already priced in. What more is there to say about the “war on truth” a decade into Trump’s political career?
lyingadj詞源 2/ˈlaɪ.ɪŋ/
- 1
Tending to tell lies, untruthful, mendacious
- Gloster: Then, Saunder, sit there, the lyingest knave in Christendom.
- Sly: Ask Marian Hacket, the fat ale-wife of Wincot, if she know me not: if she say I am not fourteen pence on the score for sheer ale, score me up for the lyingest knave in Christendom.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。