sleep

英[sliːp]美[sliːp]

vi.睡，睡觉，睡眠状态；

vt.为…提供床位，提供住宿，以睡觉打发日子；

n.睡眠；

第三人称单数：sleeps;

过去式：slept;

过去分词：slept;

现在分词：sleeping;

例句

I've been sitting against the wall and my foot's gone to sleep.我一直靠墙站着, 脚都麻了。

Go to sleep now; it's late.快睡吧, 很晚了。

Jobless and penniless, he had to sleep rough in the fields for several months.他既无工作又无钱, 只好在野外露宿数月。

I have a slight infection, but I think I'll manage to sleep it off.我有点儿不舒服, 我想睡一会儿就会好的。

Father is in a bad temper, but let him sleep it off.父亲正在生气, 让他睡一觉消消气吧。

Sleep—during this interval is out of the question.要在这样的间歇里睡觉是不可能的。

He passed on in his sleep.他在睡眠中死去。

He couldn't get off to sleep.他不能入睡。

a torpid state resembling sleep像睡觉一样的麻木状态

He snuggled down and went to sleep.他舒舒服服地躺在床上睡着了。

英语六级真题

Mothers have been warned for years that sleeping with their newborn infant is a bad idea, because it increases the risk that the baby might die unexpectedly during the night.

But now Israeli researchers are reporting that even sleeping in the same room can have negative consequences: not for the child,but for the mother.

They slept six hours a night or less.

The large base he leads resembles a snowed-in college campus on holiday break, with the capacity to sleep more than 10 times the 13 people who were staying on through the Antarctic winter.

Telepressure was also correlated with sleeping poorly and missing work.

Less than an hour away by snowmobile, Chinese labourers have updated the Great Wall Station, a vital part of China's plan to operate five bases on Antarctica, complete with an indoor badminton court and sleeping quarters for 150 people.

But a new study finds that there's another group of adolescents who are in nearly as much danger of experiencing the same psychiatric symptoms: teens who use tons of media, don't get enough sleep and have a sedentary ( ' , 不爱活动的 ) lifestyle.

After six months, the employees who participated in ROWE reported reduced work-family conflict and a better sense of control of their time, and they were getting a full hour of extra sleep each night.

A study of employees at health insurance provider Aetna revealed that roughly one quarter of those taking in-office yoga and mindfulness classes reported a 28% reduction in their stress levels and a 20% improvement in sleep quality.

83% of workers say they're stressed about their jobs, nearly 50% say work-related stress is interfering with their sleep, and 60% use their smartphones to check in with work outside of normal working hours.

You've now heard it so many times, you can probably repeat it in your sleep.

Excuse me, can I get a ticket for a sleeping compartment on this train?

Or if you do climb higher sooner, come back down to a lower height when you sleep.

When you reach your top height, do light activities rather than sleep too much

I'd like to go camping with you this weekend, but I don't have a sleeping bag.

She can lend the man a sleeping bag

Doctor, I haven't been able to get enough sleep lately, and I'm too tired to concentrate in class.

83% of workers say they're stressed about their jobs, nearly 50% say work-related stress is interfering with their sleep, and 60% use their smartphones to check in with work outside of normal working hours.

A study of employees at health insurance provider Aetna revealed that roughly one quarter of those taking in-office yoga and mindfulness classes reported a 28% reduction in their stress levels and a 20% improvement in sleep quality.

A study published last year in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that people who sleep more tend to eat less unhealthy food than their peers who don't get as much rest.

After six months, the employees who participated in ROWE reported reduced work-family conflict and a better sense of control of their time, and they were getting a full hour of extra sleep each night.

And it's not a more efficient sleep, not like they're compressing relatively more value out of their hours.

And lack of recovery一whether by disrupting sleep with thoughts of work or having continuous cognitive arousal by watching our phones一is costing our companies $62 billion a year in lost productivity.

As it is, sleep is so undervalued that getting by on fewer hours has become a badge of honor.

But, as the human study suggests, another reason for dolphins keeping their eyes open during sleep is that they can look out for predators while asleep.

For example, dolphins, as well as other marine animals, shut down one hemisphere of the brain when they go to sleep.

Half of your brain stays alert and prepared for danger when you sleep in a new place, a study has revealed.

Infants, on the other hand, didn't appear to have worse sleep whether they slept in the same or different room from their mothers.

It is yet a challenge to explain the cause-and-effect relationship between sleep and nutrition.

It shapes the way our bodies operate, too, and sleep is at the intersection of those.

It was specifically observed that the left side of the brain was more active during deep sleep.

It's no surprise, then, that more than half of American adults don't get the 7 to 9 hours of shut-eye every night as recommended by sleep experts.

Mothers who slept in the same room as their infants, whether in the same bed or just the same room, had poorer sleep than mothers whose babies slept elsewhere in the house: They woke up more frequently, were awake approximately 20 minutes longer per night

Now, instead of swimming upstream, we relax, sleep, watch movies, or listen to music.

Other studies have found that even infants in East Asia sleep about an hour less than European infants, so we're trying to figure out how culture shapes the way you sleep.

right now, to reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that mothers not sleep in the same bed as their babies, but sleep in the same room.

That means they wake up hungry, they are hungry all day, and they go to sleep hungry.

That suggests that catch - up sleep may undo some but not all of the damage that sleep 32 deprivation causes, which is encouraging, given how many adults don't get the hours they need each night.

The most common topics they discussed included kids' sleep, nutrition, discipline, behavior problems and day care and preschool.

The relationship between getting more sleep and making better food choices is well-documented.

We're still in the exploratory stages of this project, although what's noteworthy is that East Asians on average sleep about an hour and half less each night than North Americans do.

We've also started to look at how culture shapes sleep.

When Liu, the UCLA sleep researcher and professor of medicine, brought chronically sleep-restricted people into the lab for a weekend of sleep during which they logged about 10 hours per night, they showed improvements in the ability of insulin to process

When the researchers repeated the laboratory experiment on the second and third nights they found the left hemisphere could not be stimulated in the same way during deep sleep.

Whether or not we can catch up on sleep — on the weekend, say — is a hotly debated topic among sleep researchers.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

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.

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VERB

睡觉;睡着;入睡

When you sleep, you rest with your eyes closed and your mind and body inactive.

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N-COUNT

一段睡眠时间;一觉

A sleep is a period of sleeping.

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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.

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PHRASE

睡着;入睡

If you cannot get to sleep, you are unable to sleep.

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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.

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PHRASE

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.

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英汉词典释义

n.

睡眠; 睡眠的时间

眼屎；一觉

vi.

睡眠

vt.

为…提供床位，可供…睡觉，可供…住宿

英英词典释义

Noun

1. a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended;

2. a torpid state resembling sleep

3. a period of time spent sleeping;

4. euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb);

Verb

1. be asleep

2. be able to accommodate for sleeping;

行业词典

医学： 睡眠：躯体和精神休息期，其间意志和意识部分或完全消失，人体部分功能暂停；也认为睡眠是一种行为状态，特征为特有的不动姿势，对外界刺激的感觉降低但易恢复。睡眠分为两期，即非快眼动期((NREM sleep)和快眼动期(REM sleep)；

心理学： 睡眠；

生理学： 睡眠；