poetic/literary <诗/文>
no obj.
- sleep沉睡:
Sleeping Beauty slumbered in her forest castle
睡美人在森林城堡中沉睡
figurative 〈喻〉the village street slumbered under the afternoon sun.
乡村小街在午后阳光中沉睡。
派生词
slumberer
nounslumberous
(亦作slumberous)adjective词源
Middle English: alteration of Scots and northern English sloom, in the same sense. The -b- was added for ease of pronunciation.