| 单词 | sleep |
| 释义 | sleep I. 1. a. b. < the medium speaking for the first time … out of his mesmeric sleep — W.B.Yeats > 2. a. < the depressed fellaheen who likewise are rousing from their centuries of sleep — D.M.Friedenberg > b. c. d. < the sleep that is among the lonely hills — William Wordsworth > e. < my foot has gone to sleep > f. < the ground hog's winter sleep > 3. < hoped for late morning sleeps in his new home — Dorothy C. Fisher > 4. a. < not ten sleeps have passed since the last of our fighting men returned — Mary Austin > b. < one of the Indian discoverers … said only that the mine was two sleeps from the post — American Guide Series: Montana > 5. < eyes heavy with sleep > II. intransitive verb 1. < is able to relax and always sleeps well — C.B.Palmer b.1910 > < slept at the club last night > 2. a. (1) < his judgment could neither sleep nor be softened — W.B.Yeats > specifically < the bill would favor claimants who have been sleeping on their rights — U.S.Code > (2) < the ancestral idealism … that slept uneasily under the spell of middle-class ambitions — V.L.Parrington > < the seasons when nature sleeps in seeds — Alan Devoe > (3) < the day, immeasurably long, sleeps over the broad hills — R.W.Emerson > b. < two of them still sleep in an old graveyard — Dana Burnet > c. archaic d. 3. < a lovely aristocratic woman who wants to sleep with him — H.C.Webster > < must have slept around — A.O.Myrer > 4. < said he would like to sleep on the proposition > 5. Scots law transitive verb 1. < slept the sleep of the dead > 2. archaic < extraordinary that any body of men … should sleep obedience — Thomas Paine > 3. < curls up along the base of the stone wall to sleep off his orgy of eating — Doris Cochran > < your oversize … berth is an airfoam invitation to sleep away business cares — Wall Street Journal > 4. < if he is not doped to make him sleep away the hours of travel, he is shivering with fear — S.J.G.Ervine > 5. < retreated down to his own den … to sleep himself sober — Sir Walter Scott > 6. < the place sleeps 18 besides the servants — John Selby > Synonyms: < the cradle of the slumbering babe — William Wordsworth > drowse may suggest a dull or listless inactivity in which one may drift off to sleep < quaint Spanish towns, with adobe houses and wide squares, sunk in their noonday sleep, — beautiful senoritas drowsing away the afternoon in hammocks — S.B.Leacock > doze, close to drowse, may differ in applying to a deeper degree of sleep or sleepiness < we laughed and dozed, then roused and read again — Vachel Lindsay > As a verb nap often applies to a sleeping or dozing when one should be alert and vigilant < he napped again and when he opened his eyes he knew the sun was shining. He jumped out of bed, wondering about the time — Cortland Fitzsimmons > < caught napping > snooze may apply to a pleasant comfortable sleep between times < having nothing to do, read a little Shakespeare and snooze — O.W.Holmes †1935 > |
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