- N-UNCOUNT 睡眠;睡觉
Sleep is the natural state of rest in which your eyes are closed, your body is inactive, and your mind does not think.
- They were exhausted from lack of sleep...
由于缺乏睡眠,他们非常疲惫。 - Try and get some sleep...
试着睡一会儿。 - Be quiet and go to sleep...
别出声,睡觉吧。 - Often he would have bad dreams and cry out in his sleep.
他常常做噩梦,并且在梦里喊出声来。
- VERB 睡觉;睡着;入睡
When you sleep, you rest with your eyes closed and your mind and body inactive.
- During the car journey, the baby slept...
坐车来的路上,宝宝睡着了。 - I've not been able to sleep for the last few nights.
前几个晚上,我一直都无法入睡。 - ...a pool surrounded by sleeping sunbathers.
四周躺着边睡觉边晒日光浴的人们的游泳池
- N-COUNT 一段睡眠时间;一觉
A sleep is a period of sleeping.
- I think he may be ready for a sleep soon.
我想他也许很快就要睡一觉了。
- VERB (大楼、房间等)可供(若干人)住宿,睡得下(若干人)
If a building or room sleeps a particular number of people, it has beds for that number of people.
- The villa sleeps 10 and costs £530 per person for two weeks.
这座别墅可以住下 10 人,每人两周的费用是 530 英镑。
- See also: sleeping
There are several verbal expressions in English using the noun sleep which refer to the moment when you start to sleep. When you go to bed at night, you normally go to sleep or fall asleep. When you go to sleep, it is usually a deliberate action. He didn't want to go to sleep. You can fall asleep by accident, or at a time when you should be awake. I've seen doctors fall asleep in the operating theatre. If you have difficulty sleeping, you can say that you cannot get to sleep. Sometimes the fever prevents the child from getting to sleep.
英语中有几个用 sleep 的名词形式表示开始睡觉的动词短语。晚上上床睡觉的时候通常用 go to sleep (上床睡觉)或者 fall asleep (睡着)。go to sleep 通常指一种清醒时有意为之的行为,如:He didn't want to go to sleep (他不想上床睡觉)。fall asleep 可以指无意中睡着,或是在应该清醒的时候睡着,例如:I've seen doctors fall asleep in the operating theatre (我见过医生在手术室里睡着的情形)。假如无法入睡,可以说 cannot get to sleep,如:Sometimes the fever prevents the child from getting to sleep (有时候发烧使孩子无法入睡)。
- PHRASE 睡着;入睡
If you cannot get to sleep, you are unable to sleep.
- I can't get to sleep with all that singing.
那些歌声搅得我无法入睡。
- PHRASE 对…十分担心;为…而睡不着觉
If you say that you didn't lose any sleep over something, you mean that you did not worry about it at all.
- I didn't lose too much sleep over that investigation.
我并不太担心那个调查。
- 好好考虑一夜;把…留待第二天再作决定
If you are trying to make a decision and you say that you will sleep on it, you mean that you will delay making a decision on it until the following day, so you have time to think about it.
- PHRASE 使(尤指有病或有伤的动物)无痛苦地死去;使长眠
If a sick or injured animal is put to sleep, it is killed by a vet in a way that does not cause it pain.
- I'm going take the dog down to the vet's and have her put to sleep.
我要把小狗带到兽医那里,让她安乐死。
- to sleep rough → see: rough