be inactive, as if asleep;

"His work lay dormant for many years"

The immune system either kills the germs, or 「walls off」 the TB bacilli where they can lie dormant for years.

免疫系统可杀死病菌或「隔离」结核桿菌，潜伏期可长达数年。

Such background dreams lie dormant or unanimated until creator chooses to include or add them to the template of their dream for a particular cycle.

这些后台梦想处在静止或无激活状态，直到造物者为了一个特定的周期去选择把它们包含或加载进他们的梦想模板。

Bacteria that lie dormant can escape antibiotics. But add sugar to the treatment and the microbes rev up, only to be taken down.

细菌潜伏起来之后能够躲过抗生素，而在治疗中加入糖分，就能够把细菌引诱出来，从而把它们一网打尽。

The immune system 「walls off」 the TB bacilli which, protected by a thick waxy coat, can lie dormant for years.

免疫系统会把结核桿菌「屏蔽」起来，结核桿菌在厚厚的腊质胞壁的保护下可潜伏多年。

Space probes parked in orbit round the sun might lie dormant yet intact for an immense period of time.

停在太阳周围轨道的太空探测器也许依然完好。

Specifically, problems such as race conditions and deadlocks that lie dormant could suddenly become major problems.

尤其是潜在的竞态条件和死锁会突然间成为最令人头疼的问题。

One part of the program is designed to lie dormant for long periods, then speed up the machines so that the spinning rotors in the centrifuges wobble and then destroy themselves.

程序的一部分设计来作长期潜伏，然后给机器加速，使离心机旋转装置产生振动自毁。

Microbiologists have long known that E.coli can bind tightly to the surface of seeds and even penetrate them, and then lie dormant for months.

微生物学家很早已经就知道大肠桿菌可以很牢固地结合在种子表面，甚至可以扩散到种子内部，并且在里面休眠几个月。

They could travel through the air, float in water, and lie dormant for many months.

他们可以通过空气传播，飘在水面上，在土壤中休眠很多个月。

It「s strange indeed how memories can lie dormant in a man」s mind for so many years.

记忆如何能在人的头脑中潜伏这么多年，实在是非常奇怪。

They believe that infectious prions might wake viruses that lie dormant in the DNA of an uninfected cell.

他们相信感染朊病毒可能唤醒健康细胞内其他病毒沉睡的DNA。