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Slumber is an old, poetic word for sleep. To slumber means to sleep, usually peacefully. You will see it in stories, songs, and phrases like 'a deep slumber' more than in everyday conversation - if you say 'I slumbered well last night' to a friend, it sounds unusual, almost like something from a fairy tale.
（文學用語）沉睡、安睡
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。
slumbernoun/ˈslʌm.bə/
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A very light state of sleep, almost awake.
- Fast asleep? It is no matter; / Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber.
- Ev’n Luſt and Envy ſleep, yet Love denies / Reſt to my Soul, and ſlumber to my Eyes.
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A very light state of sleep, almost awake.
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A state of ignorance or inaction.
- Marcel Duchamp's urinal and readymades seemed in the beginning to be insider jokes or jokelike paradoxes meant to awaken people from their aesthetic slumbers.
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rareThe snooze button on an alarm clock.
slumberverb/ˈslʌm.bə/
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To be in a very light state of sleep, almost awake.
- He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
- If Sleep and Death be truly one, And every spirit’s folded bloom Thro’ all its intervital gloom In some long trance should slumber on; […]
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To be inactive or negligent.
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obsoleteTo lay to sleep.
- slumber his conscience
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obsoleteTo stun; to stupefy.
- Then vp he tooke the slombred sencelesse corse.
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。