| 释义 |
put someone to sleep1Make someone unconscious by using drugs, alcohol, or an anaesthetic: a fast-acting barbiturate is administered through an intravenous line, which puts the patient quickly to sleep...- She vividly remembers the doctor coming one day when she was four or five, putting her to sleep with anaesthetic and ‘straightening my feet.’
- Before the Finnish anaesthetist put him to sleep, an Australian nurse asked an Ethiopian translator to find out if the farmer had any questions.
- A general anaesthetic is most commonly used, which means that you will be put to sleep for the operation.
1.1 (also send someone to sleep) Bore someone greatly: politics put me to sleep...- The priest was incredibly boring and practically sent me to sleep with his sermon.
- And since this is the kind of basic knowledge that every school kid should know, the text refrains from being so dry that it sends you to sleep.
- The dreadful dullness of the Executive would be more apparent if the Party had not selected a leader who was supposed to soothe voters' fear of independence but has ended up sending them to sleep instead.
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