sleeper
sleeper
英[ˈsli:pə(r)]美[ˈslipɚ]
n.卧车，轨枕，睡觉（呈某种状态）的人，冬眠动物；
复数：sleepers;
例句
He stepped out of his first-class sleeper on the night express from London.他从由伦敦开来的午夜快车的头等卧铺车厢里走出来。
Please don’t make any noise—my mother’s a very light sleeper.请安静——我母亲睡觉很轻。
As soon as the machine indicates that the dream is over, a buzzer wakens the sleeper.要是机器显示梦已结束, 蜂音器便唤醒熟睡者.
Please don't make any noise — my mother's a very light sleeper.请安静——我母亲睡觉很轻.
I usually go up to London on the sleeper.我一般都乘卧车去伦敦.
I crammed my bag full of swimsuits and T-shirts and caught the sleeper down to Beziers.我把泳衣和T恤衫塞进包里，乘卧铺前往贝济耶。
...Menno Meyjes, a young Dutch writer, who had had his first success with the sleeper 'The Children's Crusade'.凭借着《童子*》的意外走红而首尝成功的年轻荷兰作家——曼诺·梅耶斯
I'm a very light sleeper and I can hardly get any sleep at all...我睡觉很轻，几乎就没睡着。
She was usually a light sleeper.她通常很容易惊醒。
I crammed my bag full of swimsuits and T-shirts and caught the sleeper down to Beziers...我把泳衣和T恤衫塞进包里，乘卧铺前往贝济耶。
柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
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睡觉…者;睡眠…的人
You can use sleeper to indicate how well someone sleeps. For example, if someone is a light sleeper, they are easily woken up.
例句
I'm a very light sleeper and I can hardly get any sleep at all...我睡觉很轻，几乎就没睡着。Poor sleepers take longer to fall asleep than good sleepers.与睡眠好的人相比，睡眠不好的人要花更长的时间才能入睡。N-COUNT
(英国英语的)卧铺车厢,卧铺铺位（在美国英语中，sleeping car 指卧铺车厢，roomette 则指一个卧铺的铺位)
In British English, a sleeper is a carriage on a train containing beds for passengers to sleep in at night, or a section of such a carriage. The usual American words are sleeping car for the carriage and roomette for the section.
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卧铺列车
A sleeper is a train with beds for its passengers to sleep in at night.
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(铁路上的)枕木
Railway sleepers are large heavy beams that support the rails of a railway track.
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出乎意料的成功者;爆冷门的人(或事物)
If you describe someone or something as a sleeper, you mean that they unexpectedly become successful, often after a long period of being inactive or unknown.
例句
...Menno Meyjes, a young Dutch writer, who had had his first success with the sleeper 'The Children's Crusade'.凭借着《童子*》的意外走红而首尝成功的年轻荷兰作家——曼诺·梅耶斯英汉词典释义
n.
睡觉(呈某种状态)的人
Please don’t make any noise—my mother’s a very light sleeper.请安静——我母亲睡觉很轻。轨枕;枕木;道木
卧车
I usually go up to London on the sleeper.我一般都乘卧车去伦敦。He stepped out of his first-class sleeper on the night express from London.他从由伦敦开来的午夜快车的头等卧铺车厢里走出来。小耳环
未料到获得成功的剧、书、人等
英英词典释义
Noun
1. a rester who is sleeping
2. a spy or saboteur or terrorist planted in an enemy country who lives there as a law-abiding citizen until activated by a prearranged signal
3. an unexpected achiever of success;
"the winner was a true sleeper--no one expected him to get it"4. one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track;
"the British call a railroad tie a sleeper"5. a passenger car that has berths for sleeping
6. a piece of furniture that can be opened up into a bed
7. tropical fish that resembles a goby and rests quietly on the bottom in shallow water
8. an unexpected hit;
"that movie was the sleeper of the summer"行业词典
体育： 不受注意的强手；
