英语词汇“sleep like a top”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

e. to sleep like a top (cf. 3c).

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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [verb (intransitive)] > deeply or soundly

to sleep sounda1400

to sleep like a top1693

sleep1967

1693 W. Congreve Old Batchelour i. i. 8 Should he seem to rouse, 'tis but well lashing him, and he will sleep like a Top.

1793 Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 893/2 He sleeps like a top.

1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto II cxxxiv. 186 Juan slept like a top, or like the dead.

b. As the type of a sound sleeper, in reference to the apparent stillness of a spinning top when its axis of rotation is vertical: cf. sleep v. 3c; esp. in to sleep like (as sound or as fast as) a top: cf. sleep v. 1e. †Rarely figurative = sound sleeper.

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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [noun] > one who sleeps or is asleep > deeply or soundly

top1621

1621 J. Fletcher et al. Trag. of Thierry & Theodoret v. i. sig. K2 I will assure you he can sleepe no more Then a hooded hawke, a centinell to him, Or one of the citty Constables are tops.

1693 W. Congreve Old Batchelour i. i. 8 'Tis but well lashing him, and he will sleep like a Top.

1711 A. Ramsay Elegy Maggy Johnstoun x I took a nap..As sound's a tap.

1763 F. Sheridan Discov. i. ii In two minutes I was as fast as a top.

1909 G. Tyrrell in Q. Rev. July 106 Its [a perfect life's] quiet is that of a sleeping top,—the ease of intense well-balanced activity.

单词	sleep like a top
释义	> as lemmas to sleep like a top e. to sleep like a top (cf. 3c). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [verb (intransitive)] > deeply or soundly to sleep sounda1400 to sleep like a top1693 sleep1967 1693 W. Congreve Old Batchelour i. i. 8 Should he seem to rouse, 'tis but well lashing him, and he will sleep like a Top. 1793 Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 893/2 He sleeps like a top. 1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto II cxxxiv. 186 Juan slept like a top, or like the dead. extracted from sleepv. to sleep like (as sound or as fast as) a top b. As the type of a sound sleeper, in reference to the apparent stillness of a spinning top when its axis of rotation is vertical: cf. sleep v. 3c; esp. in to sleep like (as sound or as fast as) a top: cf. sleep v. 1e. †Rarely figurative = sound sleeper. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [noun] > one who sleeps or is asleep > deeply or soundly top1621 1621 J. Fletcher et al. Trag. of Thierry & Theodoret v. i. sig. K2 I will assure you he can sleepe no more Then a hooded hawke, a centinell to him, Or one of the citty Constables are tops. 1693 W. Congreve Old Batchelour i. i. 8 'Tis but well lashing him, and he will sleep like a Top. 1711 A. Ramsay Elegy Maggy Johnstoun x I took a nap..As sound's a tap. 1763 F. Sheridan Discov. i. ii In two minutes I was as fast as a top. 1909 G. Tyrrell in Q. Rev. July 106 Its [a perfect life's] quiet is that of a sleeping top,—the ease of intense well-balanced activity. extracted from topn.² < as lemmas
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