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sleep on

/sleep/US // slip //UK // (sliːp) //

睡觉,睡觉的时候,睡觉时,睡觉吧

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
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    slept, sleep·ing.

    • : to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.
    • : Botany. to assume, especially at night, a state similar to the sleep of animals, marked by closing of petals, leaves, etc.
    • : to be dormant, quiescent, or inactive, as faculties.
    • : to be careless or unalert; allow one's alertness, vigilance, or attentiveness to lie dormant: While England slept, Germany prepared for war.
    • : to lie in death: They are sleeping in their tombs.
v.有主动词 verb
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    slept, sleep·ing.

    • : to take rest in: He slept the sleep of the innocent.
    • : to accommodate for sleeping; have sleeping accommodations for: This trailer sleeps three people.
    • : to spend or pass in sleep: to sleep the day away.
    • : to recover from the effects of by sleeping.
n.名词 noun
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    • : the state of a person, animal, or plant that sleeps.
    • : a period of sleeping: a brief sleep.
    • : dormancy or inactivity.
    • : the repose of death.
    • : sleeper.
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    • : sleep around, Informal. to have sexual relations with many partners, especially in a casual way; be sexually promiscuous.
    • : sleep in, to sleep where one is employed.to sleep beyond one's usual time of arising.
    • : sleep on, to postpone making a decision about for at least a day: to sleep on a proposal till the end of the week.
    • : sleep out, to sleep away from one's place of employment.Chiefly Northern U.S.to sleep away from one's home.to sleep outdoors.
    • : sleep over, to spend one or more nights in a place other than one's own home: Two friends will sleep over this weekend.
    • : sleep together, to be sexual partners; have a sexual relationship.
    • : sleep with, to have sexual relations with.

Phrases

  • sleep around
  • sleep a wink, not
  • sleep in
  • sleep like a log
  • sleep on something
  • sleep out
  • sleep over
  • sleep through
  • sleep with
  • let sleeping dogs lie
  • lose sleep over
  • put to sleep

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • It’s too soon to tell you much about battery life or the new built-in sleep tracking feature, and I’ll need more time to render a long-term verdict.

  • Instead, the Academy recommends making sure that screen time does not substitute for any sleep or active time.

  • You’ll visit islands like Santa Cruz and Isabela and either camp on the beach or sleep on a sailboat.

  • The team implemented training, nutrition, recovery, and sleep strategies based on where each player was in their cycle.

  • From pretty much the second or third day until then, so almost 1,000 miles, I had been plagued by shin splints, and ended up walking 20-hour days and getting two or three hours of sleep.

  • Lee would stay up late, unable to sleep from the pains he had in his back.

  • On some Sundays he came to church with only two hours of sleep.

  • Zubaydah and two other detainees were subsequently waterboarded, and subjected to other methods including sleep deprivation.

  • Detainees there were subject to sleep deprivation, shackled to bars with their hands above their heads.

  • He was slapped, grabbed in the face, placed in stress positions, placed in standing sleep deprivation, and doused with water.

  • At last Aristide fed him desperately, dandled him eventually to sleep, and returned to an excited pillow.

  • Punch scratched himself in his sleep, and Judy moaned a little.

  • Until we work up some weeks' reserve of water, food and cartridges, I shan't sleep sound.

  • The white light of the moon had fallen upon the world like the mystery and the softness of sleep.

  • So how do you suppose Yung Pak's mother used to put him to sleep in this land where cradles were unknown?