sleep

• vi. 睡，睡覺
• n. 睡眠
• n. (Sleep)人名；(英)斯利普

來自古英語 slaepan,睡覺，來自 Proto-Germanic*slepana,睡覺，可能來自 PIE*sleu,無精神的， 虛弱的，疲倦的，詞源同 slumber,slow,slack.

sleep

sleep: [OE] Sleep comes from a prehistoric West Germanic *slǣpan, which also produced German schlafen and Dutch slapen. Its ancestry has not been pieced together in detail, but it is related to Dutch slap ‘sluggish’ and German schlaff ‘slack, loose’, and a link has been suggested with Lithuanian slabnas ‘weak’.

sleep (v.)

Old English slæpan "to be or fall asleep; be dormant or inactive" (class VII strong verb; past tense slep, past participle slæpen), from Proto-Germanic *slepan (cognates: Old Saxon slapan, Old Frisian slepa, Middle Dutch slapen, Dutch slapen, Old High German slafen, German schlafen, Gothic slepan "to sleep"), from PIE root *sleb- "to be weak, sleep" (cognates: Old Church Slavonic slabu "lax, weak," Lithuanian silpnas "weak"), which perhaps is connected to the root of slack (adj.). Sleep with "do the sex act with" is in Old English:

Gif hwa fæmnan beswice unbeweddode, and hire mid slæpe ... [Laws of King Alfred, c.900]

Related: Slept; sleeping. Sleep around first attested 1928.

sleep (n.)

Old English slæp "sleep, sleepiness, inactivity," from Proto-Germanic *slepaz, from the root of sleep (v.); compare cognate Old Saxon slap, Old Frisian slep, Middle Dutch slæp, Dutch slaap, Old High German slaf, German Schlaf, Gothic sleps.

Personified in English from late 14c., on model of Latin Somnus), Greek Hypnos. Figurative use for "repose of death" was in Old English; to put (an animal) to sleep "kill painlessly" is recorded from 1923 (a similar imagery is in cemetery). Sleep deprivation attested from 1906. Sleep-walker "somnambulist" is attested from 1747; sleep-walking is from 1840. To be able to do something in (one's) sleep "easily" is recorded from 1953.

1. I didn't get a wink of sleep on the aeroplane.

我在飛機上沒合一下眼。

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2. He looked at Ellen, breathing evenly in her sleep.

他看著埃倫，她正呼吸均勻地睡著。

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3. Jem was full of beans after a long sleep.

傑姆好好睡了一覺之後又變得精力充沛了。

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4. I find that I need very little sleep these days.

我發現最近我隻需要睡很少時間。

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5. She had woken me out of a sound sleep.

她把我從酣睡中叫醒。

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