sleepless

Word family noun sleep sleeper sleepiness sleeplessness sleepingsleeping bagsleeping carsleeping partnersleeping pillsleeping policemansleeping sicknesssleepoutsleepwalkersleepwalkingsleepyheadadjective asleep sleepless sleepy sleeperyverb sleep sleepwalkadverb sleepily sleeplessly

sleep·less /ˈsliːpləs/ adjectiveadj

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。

Examples from the Corpus

a sleepless night• He lives with them every day, and sweats them out on many a sleepless night.• She had plenty of time to think it over during a sleepless night, and on the train in the morning.• His eyes were red-rimmed, their gilded brightness dulled from a sleepless night, and perhaps also from weeping.• The four travellers passed a sleepless night, each thinking of the gift Oz had promised to bestow on him.• She couldn't even feel resentful that he slept so peacefully after she had suffered a sleepless night of angst.• After a sleepless night Stavrogin sets forth.• He'd had a sleepless night thinking over how badly things had gone.• His social conscience, dulled by a sleepless night, was now barely alive.

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 adverbadv

—sleeplessness noun [uncountableU]

Examples from the Corpus

sleepless• 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.

单词	sleepless
释义	sleepless Word family noun sleep sleeper sleepiness sleeplessness sleepingsleeping bagsleeping carsleeping partnersleeping pillsleeping policemansleeping sicknesssleepoutsleepwalkersleepwalkingsleepyheadadjective asleep sleepless sleepy sleeperyverb sleep sleepwalkadverb sleepily sleeplessly sleep·less /ˈsliːpləs/ adjectiveadj 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。 Examples from the Corpus a sleepless night• He lives with them every day, and sweats them out on many a sleepless night.• She had plenty of time to think it over during a sleepless night, and on the train in the morning.• His eyes were red-rimmed, their gilded brightness dulled from a sleepless night, and perhaps also from weeping.• The four travellers passed a sleepless night, each thinking of the gift Oz had promised to bestow on him.• She couldn't even feel resentful that he slept so peacefully after she had suffered a sleepless night of angst.• After a sleepless night Stavrogin sets forth.• He'd had a sleepless night thinking over how badly things had gone.• His social conscience, dulled by a sleepless night, was now barely alive. 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 adverbadv —sleeplessness noun [uncountableU] Examples from the Corpus sleepless• 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.
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