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The sandman is an imaginary man in children’s talk who is supposed to make children fall asleep. The old picture is that he a little sand in their eyes, and that is why your eyes feel when you are very tired. Parents say it in a gentle way at bedtime.
The sandman這個sandman是 is an imaginary man小孩故事裡想像出來的一個人物 in children's talk who is supposed to他的任務是 make children fall asleep讓小孩睡著. The old picture古老的畫面 is是 that he sprinkles a little sand in their eyes他會在小孩眼睛裡撒一點沙, and而 that那就是為什麼 is why your eyes feel grainy when you are very tired你很累的時候眼睛會覺得沙沙的原因. Parents父母 say it in a gentle way會用溫柔的方式講這件事 at bedtime在睡前.
The English word is sand + man, and this bedtime meaning probably comes from German Sandmann or Sandmännchen, which had the relevant sense by the mid-1700s. It is apparently first attested in English in the context of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s story The Sandman (1816).
The English word英文這個字 is是 sand + mansand加man, and而且 this bedtime meaning這個哄睡的意思 probably comes from很可能來自 German Sandmann or Sandmännchen德文的Sandmann或Sandmännchen, which而這個字 had the relevant sense到18世紀中就已經有這個意思了 by the mid-1700s. It它 is apparently first attested似乎最早出現的紀錄 in English in the context of在英文裡是在...的脈絡下 E.T.A. Hoffmann's story The Sandman (1816)霍夫曼的小說《沙人》（1816年）.
Though actually that story is not sweet: Hoffmann’s sandman is . The kind sandman of bedtime talk and the dark one in that tale share a name, but they are not the same character.
Though actually不過實際上, that story那個故事 is not sweet並不溫馨: Hoffmann's sandman霍夫曼筆下的沙人 is frightening是很嚇人的. The kind sandman of bedtime talk睡前故事裡那個溫和的沙人 and the dark one in that tale跟那個故事裡陰暗的角色 share a name共用一個名字, but不過 they他們 are not the same character並不是同一個角色.
There is no real sandman.
There is沒有 no real sandman真正存在的沙人.
組成sand + -man. The mythological sense may be from German Sandmann / Sandmännchen; it is apparently first attested in English in the context of Hoffmann’s The Sandman (1816).
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Sandmanname
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A surname.
sandmannoun/ˈsænd.mæn/
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artsfolklorehistoryA figure that brings sleep and dreams by sprinkling magical sand into people's eyes.
- This then was the Sandman; but what was his occupation, and what was his purpose ? The nursery-maid being applied to, gave a nursery-maid's explanation, that the Sandman was a bad man, who flung sand in the eyes of little children who did not go to bed.
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Used as a symbol of the passage of time toward death.
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obsoleteA seller of sand.
- 1811, Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Consisting of One Thousand and One Stories, Told by the Sultaness of the Indies, Henry Mozley (publ.), page 114. While I was out, a sandman, who sells scouring sand, which women use to clean the baths with, passed through our street, and called, Any sand ho !
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。