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sleep RESTING STATEsli:pnthe resting state in which the body is not active and the mind is unconscious睡觉He reckons he only needs six hours sleep a night. [U]他认为他每晚只需要六小时的睡眠。I must get some sleep--I'm exhausted. [U]我必须睡一会儿----我筋疲力尽了。To get to sleep is to succeed in sleeping.睡着I finally got to sleep at four o'clock this morning. [U]我终于在今天早上4点睡着。I couldn't get to sleep last night for worrying. [U]我昨晚因为担忧而无法入睡。You'll find that your baby usually goes to (= starts to) sleep after a feed. [U]你会发现你的孩子通常在喂饱后开始入睡。A sleep is a period of sleeping.睡眠You must be tired after all that driving --why don't you have a little sleep? [C]驾驶了那么久之后你一定累了----你为什么不小睡一会儿？He fell into a deep sleep. [C]他陷入了沉睡。(infml) You can also say that your arm or leg has gone to sleep if you cannot feel or control it, often because you have been sitting or lying for too long in a strange position.(手臂、腿脚)麻木When a pet animal that is ill is killed painlessly because its owners do not want it to suffer, it is sometimes said to be put to sleep, to avoid saying it has been killed.无痛苦地处死(宠物等)(infml) Why don't you just go back to sleep? (= It is obvious that you were not listening carefully).你为什么不回去睡觉?（显然你不在专心听讲。） “The Big Sleep (= death)” (title of a book by Raymond Chandler, 1939)《长眠》(雷蒙德·钱德勒的书名) [SLEEPWALKER]
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