That suddenly upset the diplomatic limbo in which the territorial dispute had lain for years .
这起事件扰乱了已搁置数年之久的领土争端外交困局。
But that detail , he says , had lain unnoticed for years in the national archive .
他说，这类细节多年来在国家档案里不为人知。
I look out now at certain times of the day and see that he has glued up some paper in his window and has lain down under his desk for his cat nap .
现在，我每天的某些时候会往外看，看到他在自己的窗子上贴几张纸，然后躺在自己的桌子下面打盹儿。
The buffalo had lain in a bank vault since the battle of britain in 1940 and was still wrapped in wartime newspaper when mr axford saw it for the first time .
The two horses had just lain down when a brood of ducklings , which had lost their mother , filed into the barn , cheeping feebly and wandering from side to side to find some place where they would not be trodden on .
