| 释义 |
drowsiness|ˈdraʊzɪnɪs|
[f. next + -ness.]
1. The state of being drowsy; heavy sleepiness.
1559Primer in Priv. Prayers (1851) 33 Drowsiness take from our eyes. 1562Turner Herbal ii. 46 b, They shal fall into a forgetfull and a slepishe drowsines. 1630–31Milton Arcades 61 When drowsiness Hath locked up mortal sense. 1736Butler Anal. i. i. 37 Drowsiness, increasing till it end in sound sleep. 1860Froude Hist. Eng. V. 353 The symptoms were a sudden perspiration, accompanied with faintness and drowsiness.
2. fig. Intellectual or moral lethargy; sloth.
1575–85Abp. Sandys Serm. (1841) 438 By the drowsiness of the husbandmen and the sloth of the cultivators. 1611Bible Prov. xxiii. 21 Drousinesse shall cloath a man with ragges. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 89 ⁋5 Convinced of the necessity of breaking from this habitual drowsiness. 1841D'Israeli Amen. Lit. (1867) 567 His vivacity relieved the drowsiness of mere antiquarianism. |