a·sleep
adjective/əˈsliːp/
/əˈsliːp/
[not before noun]Idioms - sleeping
睡着；在梦乡 - I waited until they were all fast asleep (= sleeping deeply).
我一直等到他们都进入了梦乡。 - The baby was sound asleep (= sleeping deeply) upstairs.
婴儿在楼上睡得很香。 - He was so exhausted that he fell asleep at his desk.
他太累了，竟伏在书桌上睡着了。 - My mother fell asleep at the wheel (= while driving) and crashed into a tree.
我母亲在方向盘上睡着了（=开车时），然后撞到了一棵树上。 - She was still half asleep (= not fully awake) when she arrived at work.
她到了上班地点时仍然睡眼惺忪。 - The police found him asleep in a garage.
警察发现他在车库里睡着了。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- lie
- seem
- …
- deeply
- fast
- sound
- …
- I waited until they were all fast asleep (= sleeping deeply).
- used to describe a part of the body that has no feeling in it, usually because it has been in the same position for too long
用于描述身体的某个部分没有感觉，通常是因为它已经处于同一位置太久了 - I couldn't move straight away, as my leg was completely asleep.
我无法立即移动，因为我的腿完全睡着了。
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- I couldn't move straight away, as my leg was completely asleep.
Idioms
asleep on the job | asleep at the wheel
(North American English also asleep at the switch)
- not paying enough attention to what you need to do
因漫不经心而未尽到职责 - They were asleep on the job as the financial crisis deepened.
金融危机恶化之时他们疏于职守。 - Let's hope the regulators are not asleep at the wheel.
希望监管机构不会麻痹大意。 - Somebody must have been asleep at the switch to allow this to happen.
肯定有人在开关处睡着了，才会发生这种情况。
- They were asleep on the job as the financial crisis deepened.