单词 | sleepless |
释义 | Word family noun sleep sleeper sleepiness sleeplessness adjective asleep sleepless sleepy verb sleep adverb sleepily sleeplessly sleep·less /ˈsliːpləs/ adjective 1 a sleepless night a night when you are unable to sleep 不眠之夜 Adrian spent a sleepless night wondering what to do. 阿德里安一夜未眠,在想该怎么办。2 unable to sleep 失眠的,无法入睡的 She lay sleepless for hours, worrying. 她忧心忡忡地躺了几个小时都无法入睡。 —sleeplessly adverb —sleeplessness noun [uncountable]Examples from the Corpussleepless• The four travellers passed a sleepless night, each thinking of the gift Oz had promised to bestow on him.• Sheila spent many sleepless nights figuring out how to deliver for her first major customer.• Doing anything more led to agony, sleepless nights, months of drinking and moping and boring her closest friends to death.• Ask yourself: what will be causing them their sleepless nights ten years from now?• There are many life situations and emotional circumstances that can cause sleepless nights.• the sleepless parents of newborn babies• They brought him back to her six days later, ending one vigil of sleepless prayers and beginning another.• Having lain sleepless until the early hours, it was almost eleven-thirty the next day before Luce surfaced.sleep·less adjectiveChineseSyllable unable night Corpus a when are sleep you to |
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