核心畫面

You can picture 'sleep' as the natural resting state where your eyes are closed and your mind switches off — usually at night, in bed. The verb is doing it; the noun is that state or a stretch of it. Everything else spreads out from this: where and how you sleep (rough, snug), 'a night's rest' borrowed for calm and for putting off a decision, a place having enough beds to 'sleep' people, and the side — making someone sleep (rocking a baby, boring talk, , ending an animal's life). A couple of leftovers attach to the picture too: the crust in your eyes after sleeping, and children counting 'sleeps' until a big day.

可以把 sleep 想成那個自然的休息狀態:眼睛閉上、腦袋關機,通常在夜裡、在床上。當動詞就是『正在這麼做』,當名詞更多收起可以把 sleep 想成那個自然的休息狀態:眼睛閉上、腦袋關機,通常在夜裡、在床上。當動詞就是『正在這麼做』,當名詞就是那個狀態、或那一段時間。其餘用法都從這裡散開:在哪裡、怎麼睡(露宿、好好睡);把『睡一晚再說』借來表示安心、或把決定延到明天;一個地方有足夠床位『能睡幾個人』;還有使役那一面——讓別人睡著(哄寶寶、無聊到想睡、麻醉、讓動物安樂死)。另外有兩個零星用法也掛在這畫面上:睡醒眼角的眼屎,以及小孩用『還要睡幾覺』來數大日子還有多久。

原始詞典資料18 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。

Sleepname

  • 1

    A surname from English.

sleepverb詞源 1/sliːp/

  • 1

    To rest in a state of reduced consciousness.

    • You should sleep eight hours a day.
    • We sleep in the bedroom.
  • 2

    To have sexual intercourse (see sleep with).

    • Last night we slept together for the first time.
  • 3

    To accommodate in beds.

    • This caravan can sleep four people comfortably.
    • Huge red tents erected around our small yellow one. Huge red tents that could sleep 8 and instead sleep 2. Lawn furniture is scattered about, duffle bags arrive, the clatter of pots and pans.
  • 4

    To be careless, inattentive, or unconcerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.

    • We ſleep over our Happineſs, Great as it is, and want to be rous'd into a quick and thankful ſenſe of it, either by an actual Change of Circumſtances, or by a Compariſon of our Own caſe with that of other Men.
    • Huge red tents erected around our small yellow one. Huge red tents that could sleep 8 and instead sleep 2. Lawn furniture is scattered about, duffle bags arrive, the clatter of pots and pans.
  • 5

    To be dead.

    • For if we beleeue that Ieſus died, and roſe againe: euen ſo them alſo which ſleepe in Ieſus, will God bring with him.
    • It was that of a man in advanced life, with a long grizzled beard, and also robed in white, probably the husband of the lady, who, after surviving her many years, came at the last to sleep once more for good and all beside her.
  • 6

    To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant.

    • a question sleeps for the present; the law sleeps
    • How ſweet the moone-light ſleepes vpon this banke,[…]
  • 7

    computingengineeringmathematicsTo wait for a period of time without performing any action.

    • After a failed connection attempt, the program sleeps for 5 seconds before trying again.
  • 8

    computingengineeringmathematicsTo place into a state of hibernation.

    • Even when you have reasons not to sleep the computer, it's still a good idea to sleep the display after a period of time.
另外 3 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    engineeringmechanical-engineeringmechanicsTo spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.

    • When a top is sleeping, it is spinning without precessing.
    • A top sleeps when it moves with such velocity, and spins so smoothly, that its motion is imperceptible.
  • 10

    engineeringmechanical-engineeringmechanicsTo cause (a spinning top or yo-yo) to spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.

    • Yo-yo tricks involving sleeping the yo-yo (like "walking the dog" and "rocking the baby") cannot be performed in space.
  • 11

    slangTo knock (someone) out (as, in a fight).

sleepnoun詞源 2/sliːp/

  • 1

    The state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm.

    • I really need some sleep.
    • We need to conduct an overnight sleep test to diagnose your sleep problem.
  • 2

    informalAn act or instance of sleeping.

    • I’m just going to have a quick sleep.
    • a sound night’s sleep
  • 3

    informalA night.

    • There are only three sleeps till Christmas!
  • 4

    Rheum, crusty or gummy discharge found in the corner of the eyes after waking, whether real or a figurative objectification of sleep (in the sense of reduced consciousness).

    • When she had rubbed the sleep out of her eyes and wept till she was tired, she set out on her way and walked for many, many a day, till she at last came to a big mountain.
    • But it rings And we rise, Wipe the sleep out of our eyes[…]
  • 5

    biologybotanynatural-sciencesA state of plants, usually at night, when their leaflets approach each other and the flowers close and droop, or are covered by the folded leaves.

    • The daily sleep of plants, and their winter sleep, present in this respect exactly similar phenomena[…]
  • 6

    The hibernation of animals.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。