Slumber
['slʌmbə] or ['slʌmbɚ]
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To sleep; especially, to sleep lightly; to doze.
(v. i.) To be in a state of negligence, sloth, supineness, or inactivity.
(v. t.) To lay to sleep.
(v. t.) To stun; to stupefy.
(n.) Sleep; especially, light sleep; sleep that is not deep or sound; repose.
希尔达整理
同義詞及近義詞：
v. n. Sleep (lightly), doze, nap, snooze, lose one's self, take a nap, take a SIESTA.
n. Sleep (not deep or profound), repose, rest, doze, nap, light sleep.
德威特編輯
解釋/意思:
v.i. to sleep lightly: to sleep: to be in a state of negligence or inactivity.—n. light sleep: repose.—ns. Slum′berer; Slum′bering.—adv. Slum′beringly in a slumbering manner.—n. Slum′berland the state of slumber.—adjs. Slum′berless without slumber: sleepless; Slum′berous Slum′brous inviting or causing slumber; sleepy; Slum′bery sleepy: drowsy.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Her hands lay on the paddle like slumber, she only wanted to see him, like a crystal shadow, to feel his essential presence. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Then the fellow turned again upon his side and resumed the even respiration of deep slumber. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- She composed herself as if to slumber. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Oh, there is nothing more beautiful than slumber in the open air. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Having now composed his mind for slumber, he turned homeward. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Let them be this, let them be taken up entirely in their work, let them be perfect parts of a great machine, having a slumber of constant repetition. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Caroline, opening her eyes from a moment's slumber, viewed her nurse with an unrecognizing glance. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- You looked pale in your slumbers: are you home-sick? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Pleasant slumbers! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- My slumbers, John Graham! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- He was an added weariness upon her unripening nights, her unfruitful slumbers. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- My vengeance is awake, and she is a falcon that slumbers not till she has been gorged. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- You look the picture of innocence in your slumbers. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- All Argos slumbers. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- He cannot strike the noble slumbering chieftain. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- He left the quiet, slumbering town at our mercy. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- At this Eustacia said, with slumbering mischievousness, What, would you exchange with him--your fortune for me? 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- But his wife's expostulations awoke his half-slumbering regrets; and Tom's manly disinterestedness increased the unpleasantness of his feelings. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- A shock of heaven and earth is felt--not by the slumbering city, only by that lonely watcher, brave and unshaken in his fanaticism. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- He was as if asleep, at peace, slumbering and utterly relaxed. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- No one said anything, for fear of rousing Miss Halcombe, who was still slumbering, except the doctor, who whispered a question about the night. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- And they went into the very room where Little Dorrit had slumbered after her party, to sign the Marriage Register. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- She slumbered towards the afternoon, and I put away the book of drawings so that she might not see it when she woke. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Thus tranquillized and cherished she at last slumbered. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- He knew nothing of us, for his senses were gone, and he slumbered on till next day, when he died. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- She kissed me, and I her, and we both soon slumbered. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Now every nest held happy mates, and hart and hind slumbered blissfully safe in their lair. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The fire went out, and all night long she slumbered thus before the ashy grate. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
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