slumber
slumber 英 [ˈslʌmbə(r)] 美 [ˈslʌmbɚ]
n. 睡眠；麻木状态；静止状态 vi. 睡眠；蛰伏；麻木 vt. 睡眠；睡着度过
进行时:slumbering 过去式:slumbered 过去分词:slumbered 第三人称单数:slumbers 名词复数:slumbers
- Slumber means "sleep" — as a verb or noun. If you're a sound sleeper, you might slumber peacefully right through a thunderstorm, your slumber undisturbed.
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- n. 睡眠；麻木状态；静止状态
- vi. 睡眠；蛰伏；麻木
- vt. 睡眠；睡着度过
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1. Some insects slumber in the winter.
一些昆虫在冬季蛰伏。
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2. Then I looked to slumber for forgetfulness, but there seemed to be no room even in her world-embracing lap.
这之后我希望在睡眠中可以忘记一切，但是就连安乐窝里，也似乎没有我的位置。
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3. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield.
禁锢在墙壁和窗帘之后的人们觉得夜晚是一种短暂的死亡，而露宿野外的人会觉得夜就是一场充满着生机的轻度睡眠。
- slumber (n.) mid-14c., from slumber (v.). Slumber party first recorded 1942. Slumberland is from 1875.
- slumber (v.) mid-14c. alteration of slumeren (mid-13c.), frequentative form of slumen "to doze," probably from Old English sluma "light sleep" (compare Middle Dutch slumen, Dutch sluimeren, German schlummern "to slumber"). Frequentative on the notion of "intermittent light sleep." For the -b-, compare number, lumber, chamber, etc. Related: Slumbered; slumbering.
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