British EnglishBrESLEEP an occasion when you stay in bed longer than usual in the morning 睡懒觉
I always have a lie-in on a Sunday.
星期天我总要睡个懒觉。
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lie-in• I am a nurse working shifts and enjoyed, and needed, early nights and morning lie-ins.• The family had a lie-in on Saturdays.• On Sunday mornings, she had a lie-in, seldom rising before ten o'clock.• It is 0320 before the team finally get to bed, with the Captainpromising them a lie-in until 1000 hours.• The enforcedlie-in was welcome; we caught the tide and enjoyed a short, rough crossing to Taransay.• Juliet had been glad of her lie-in, but it would have been nice to be here with him.• Had a splendidlie-intill about 10am - finishing one of Jilly Cooper's novels.
have a lie-in• Thou shalt not have a lie-in on Sunday morning?
Liverpool are lying third in the football championship.
利物浦队在足球锦标赛中名列第三。
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lie (in) second/third/fourth etc (place)• After his win in Frankfurt on Sunday, he lies second in the series just behind Michel Robert.• Driving a Banbury prepared Prodrive Subaru, McRae now lies third in the championship.