lie(说谎)  lying              lied                lied

(1) It’s ten o’clock now. Don’t lie in bed all morning.

都十点钟了，别一上午都躺在床上。

(2) She is an honest girl. She won’t lie to me. She has never lied to me.

她是个诚实的姑娘。她不会说谎的。她对我从来都没撒过谎。

8. That means dinosaurs lived long before human beings appeared!

那就是说恐龙在人类出现之前就存在了。

appear不及物动词，意为“出现”，反义词是：disappear意思为“消失”。它们的名词形式分别是appearance和disappearance。如：

When we reached the top of the hill, the town appeared below us.

当我们到达山顶时，市镇就呈现在我们脚下。

Dinosaurs disappeared about 65 million years ago. Scientists try to explain their disappearance.

恐龙大约在六千五百万年前就消失了。科学家试着解释它们消失的原因。

9. I say it is special because the dinosaur was covered with feathers!

我说它特别，是因为恐龙身上长有羽毛。

be covered with在句中意为“被……覆盖”，有时还用be covered by。例如：

The road was covered with yellow leaves. The fields were covered by flood. The ground was covered with the white snow.

道路曾被黄叶盖住了。洪水曾淹没了田地。大地曾覆盖着白雪。

另外，cover… with…为主动形式，意思为“用……覆盖”。例如：

The beautiful girl often covers her face with her hands.

那美丽的姑娘经常用手捂着脸。

10. It was founded on October 1, 1949.

它是1949年报0月成立的。

found  vt.创立，创办，它与find的过去式和过去分词相同，注意在句中的区别。found的过去式和过去分词是在其后加-ed，即：

find(寻找)                   found             found

found(成立，建立)      founded          founded

例如：

Mr. Wang is going to found a new factory near our factory. He was very busy this morning. His lost coat was found under the bed at last.

王先生准备在我们工厂附近创办一家新工厂。今天早上他很忙，他丢失的上衣终于在床下找到了。

11. It’s interesting, isn’t it?

它有趣，是吗?

interesting和interested都来源于名词interest，interesting可作表语和定语，主语常指物;interested作表语，主语常指人，常构成be (become) interested in… 对……感兴趣。类似的词还有surprising和surprised。

surprising和surprised都是由surprise变换而来的，前者有主动含义，后者有被动含义，surprising的主语通常是物，而surprised的主语通常是人。Be surprised at + n. (v. + ing) 对……感到惊讶，be surprised后还可接不定式和that引导的从句。例如：

(1) The news from the girl is very surprising. She said that dull film was interesting.

从那个女孩那儿得来的消息非常令人吃惊。她说那个无聊的电影很有趣。