| 单词 | insomniac |
| 释义 | insomniac (once / 53241 pages) nadj An insomniac is someone who can't sleep, someone who stares at the ceiling all night or watches the minutes tick by on the alarm clock or counts sheep into the millions. Eight hours of sleep per night is considered healthy, but just think of how much more you could get done if you didn't need any at all. If you're an insomniac, though, it's not that you don't need sleep — it's that you can't get any at all. Break down the Latin root word and you get in- and somnus: "not sleep." "Not sleep!" is how you might start talking after several agonizing days of sleeplessness and walking into walls and assigning a name to every sheep that jumps the fence. WORD FAMILYinsomniac: insomniacs+/insomnia: insomniac, insomnias USAGE EXAMPLESBy late in the evening of December 19th the streets in the normally restless, insomniac German capital were eerily quiet. Economist(Dec 20, 2016) Meanwhile many of us keep looking for some gleam of … something to brighten the insomniac nights. The Guardian(Dec 19, 2016) The same digital screens that have helped nurture a generation of insomniacs can also help restore regular sleep, researchers reported on Wednesday. New York Times(Nov 30, 2016) 1n someone who cannot sleep Syn|Hyper sleepless person diseased person, sick person, sufferer a person suffering from an illness 2adj experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness insomniac old people insomniac nights Syn sleepless, watchful awake not in a state of sleep; completely conscious |
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