单词 | twilight sleep |
释义 | twilight sleep (once / 114751 pages) n WORD FAMILY twilight sleep: twilight sleeps USAGE EXAMPLESIt’s twilight sleep; an Ambien catnap; an evening voyage on a Watteau barge. The New Yorker(Oct 30, 2014) She was gassed into a twilight sleep and shot up with opiates for the pain. Salon(Jun 02, 2012) In retrospect, twilight sleep looks barbaric; women on the drugs thrashed violently and were often hooded or placed in cage-beds while they labored. New York Times(May 23, 2012) n a state of general anesthesia in which the person retains a slight degree of consciousness; can be induced by injection of scopolamine or morphine Hyper general anaesthesia, general anesthesia a state of total unconsciousness resulting from anesthetic drugs (as for a major surgical operation) |
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