核心畫面

Picture the state just before sleep: eyes heavy, movements slow, everything winding down. Put a whole town in that state and you get the second use — nothing much stirring, the day passing quietly.

可以想成:快要睡著前的那個狀態——眼皮沉、動作慢、一切都在慢下來。把一整個小鎮放進這個狀態,就是第二個用法:街上沒什更多收起可以想成:快要睡著前的那個狀態——眼皮沉、動作慢、一切都在慢下來。把一整個小鎮放進這個狀態,就是第二個用法:街上沒什麼動靜,日子安安靜靜地過。

原始詞典資料8 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。

sleepyadj/ˈsliːpi/

  • 1

    Tired; feeling the need for sleep.

    • She wak'd her sleepy crew.
  • 2

    Suggesting tiredness.

    • At the very moment he cried out, David realised that what he had run into was only the Christmas tree. Disgusted with himself at such cowardice, he spat a needle from his mouth, stepped back from the tree and listened. There were no sounds of any movement upstairs: no shouts, no sleepy grumbles, only a gentle tinkle from the decorations as the tree had recovered from the collision.
  • 3

    Tending to induce sleep.

    • a sleepy drink or potion
    • [T]he yong L. Roger Mortimer, […] hauing corrupted his Keepers, or (as ſome others vvrite) hauing potioned them vvith a ſleepy drinke, eſcaped out of the Tovver of London, getting ouer clearely vvithout any empeachment into France.
  • 4

    Dull; lazy.

    • 'Tis not sleepy business; But must be looked to speedily and strongly.
  • 5

    Quiet; without bustle or activity.

    • a sleepy English village
    • Experts believe a pandemic welfare programme for poorer Brazilians has encouraged robbers to plan bold raids in sleepy regional cities where bank branches are storing more cash.

sleepynoun/ˈsliːpi/

  • 1

    informalThe gum that builds up in the eye; sleep, gound.

    • "Did he always leave the sleepy in his eyes?" "Never removed it; let it build up in the comers of his eyes over the weeks until it was heavy enough to fall […]
    • But the nightdress was heavy, the sleepy in her eyes was heavy, her hair (she made a mustache of one of its locks) was heavy and smelled of cigarettes […]
  • 2

    Shingleback.

sleepyverb/ˈsliːpi/

  • 1

    To sleep.

    • Gabe stays up far too late and gets up far too early and spends far too many hours at the studio. Gabe is trying to get his records produced, and to get all his other work done before Gabe flies out to frisco for AES. Gabe go sleepy now.
    • im going to sleep BEING UP 28 hours is not good for my health so. ill see you all tomorrow!

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