| 单词 | insomnia |
| 释义 | insomnia (once / 5301 pages) n A person who has trouble falling or staying asleep is suffering from insomnia. If after a hot bath, a glass of warm milk, and hours of counting sheep, you still find yourself lying wide awake in bed, it's time to admit you have insomnia. There's no cure for insomnia, but people with insomnia are advised to go to bed at the same time every night and to try to avoid stress. The noun insomnia was borrowed from Latin insomnis "sleepless," from the prefix in-, "not," plus somnus, "sleep." Somnus is actually related to Greek hypnos "sleep," the source of English words such as hypnosis and hypnotic. WORD FAMILYinsomnia: insomniac, insomnias+/insomniac: insomniacs USAGE EXAMPLESFor people with insomnia—one third of the population—new recommendations this year called for managing it with cognitive behavioral therapy rather than medications. Wall Street Journal(Dec 28, 2016) Insomnia is also proved to cause a litany of problems, such as deadly motor vehicle accidents, heart disease and difficulty in concentrating. New York Times(Dec 28, 2016) Shakespeare wrote eloquently — and chillingly — about pre-Trump insomnia in “Macbeth.” Salon(Dec 25, 2016) n an inability to sleep; chronic sleeplessness Ant|Hyper hypersomnia an inability to stay awake sleep disorder a disturbance of the normal sleep pattern |
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