(noun.) the suspension of consciousness and decrease in metabolic rate.
(noun.) the state of being asleep.
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双语例句
He had left his sleeping wife; and wanted, as Margaret saw, to be amused and interested by something that she was to tell him. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔.南方与北方.
What was there in this simple and somewhat pretty sleeping-closet to startle the most timid? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.维莱特.
Lily took no sleeping-drops that night. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
I grasped it firmly, rose softly from the bed, and leaned over my sleeping wife. 查尔斯·狄更斯.匹克威克外传.
Instead her eyes warned me to beware the sleeping figures that surrounded her. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯.火星战神.
There she lay, unconscious that I was looking at her--quiet, more quiet than I had dared to hope, but not sleeping. 威尔基·柯林斯.白衣女人.
We have all heard of certain animals sleeping through the long winter months and most of us have probably wondered what happens to them when they do this. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
Robert Jordan lay in the robe beside the girl Maria who was still sleeping. 欧内斯特·海明威.丧钟为谁而鸣.
One of his maxims was that when a slave was not sleeping he should be working. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
See, I have it here, and as she spoke she drew Tan Gama's short-sword from beneath her sleeping silks and furs. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯.火星战神.
I'll be sleeping outside. 欧内斯特·海明威.丧钟为谁而鸣.
In the saddle --abroad on the plains--sleeping in beds bounded only by the horizon: fancy was at work with these things in a moment. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
George Pullman, who then had a small shop at Detroit and was working on his sleeping-car, made Edison a lot of wooden apparatus for his chemicals, to the boy's delight. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
Twice had he entered huts at night while the inmates lay sleeping upon their mats, and stolen the arrows from the very sides of the warriors. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯.人猿泰山.
Gerald went past the dark shops and houses, most of them sleeping now, and twisted round to the little blind road that ended on a field of darkness. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.