| 单词 | sleeper |
| 释义 | sleeper (sliːpəʳ ) Word forms: sleepers 1. countable noun [adjective NOUN] You can use sleeper to indicate how well someone sleeps. For example, if someone is a light sleeper, they are easily woken up. I'm a very light sleeper and I can hardly get any sleep at all. Poor sleepers take longer to fall asleep than good sleepers. 2. countable noun In British English, a sleeper is a carriage on a train containing beds for passengers to sleep in at night, or a section of such a carriage. The usual American words are sleeping car for the carriage and roomette for the section. 3. countable noun A sleeper is a train with beds for its passengers to sleep in at night. [British] 4. countable noun [oft noun NOUN] Railway sleepers are large heavy beams that support the rails of a railway track. [British] regional note: in AM, use tie5. countable noun If you describe someone or something as a sleeper, you mean that they unexpectedly become successful, often after a long period of being inactive or unknown. [informal] ...Menno Meyjes, a young Dutch writer, who had had his first success with the sleeper 'The Children's Crusade'. Collocations: light sleeper If you're a light sleeper, be warned that raindrops can make a racket in the middle of the night. Times, Sunday Times Mine was at the front and there was traffic noise so if you're a light sleeper, request a room at the back. The Sun I have always been a hideously light sleeper. Times, Sunday Times I am a very light sleeper, which makes it worse. The Sun If you're a light sleeper, request a quiet room overlooking the interior courtyard. Times, Sunday Times If sleeper agents are useful, a second-generation sleeper agent, born and raised here, blends in even better. Christianity Today In return, he tells him she was never a sleeper agent and explains... Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The little robot was his sleeper agent, whom he could control whenever he wished. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The substitution sleeper agent was often surgically altered to appear as someone else but more recent versions tend toward androids or clones. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In the end, however, this film trawls old, exhausted territory: sleeper agents, large imperilled buildings, dames-in-distress, countdowns to zero. Times, Sunday Times I made the initial journey out here by sleeper train and ferry. Times, Sunday Times (2011) From Cairo we took a sleeper train to Aswan. The Sun (2015) Friday night passed on the predictably exciting sleeper train from Paddington to Penzance. Times, Sunday Times (2012) Translations: Chinese: 睡眠者 睡眠质量不同的 Japanese: 「眠りが浅い人」「眠りが深い人」などの表現で用いる |
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