slumber的意思|slumber的解释-里氏词典

slumber ['slʌmbә]

n. 睡眠, 麻木状态

vi. 微睡, 静止, 麻木

vt. 睡着度过(时间)

[医] 微睡

slumber

[ noun ]

a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended

<noun.state>

he didn't get enough sleep last night

calm as a child in dreamless slumber

a dormant or quiescent state

<noun.state>

[ verb ]

be asleep

<verb.body>

Slumber \Slum"ber\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Slumbered}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Slumbering}.] [OE. slombren, slumberen, slumeren, AS.
slumerian, fr. sluma slumber; akin to D. sluimeren to
slumber, MHG. slummern, slumen, G. schlummern, Dan. slumre,
Sw. slumra, Goth. slawan to be silent.]
1. To sleep; especially, to sleep lightly; to doze. --Piers
Plowman.

He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor
sleep. --Ps. cxxi. 4.

2. To be in a state of negligence, sloth, supineness, or
inactivity. ``Why slumbers Pope?'' --Young.

Slumber \Slum"ber\, v. t.
1. To lay to sleep. [R.] --Wotton.

2. To stun; to stupefy. [Obs.] --Spenser.

Slumber \Slum"ber\, n.
Sleep; especially, light sleep; sleep that is not deep or
sound; repose.

He at last fell into a slumber, and thence into a fast
sleep, which detained him in that place until it was
almost night. --Bunyan.

Fast asleep? It is no matter;
Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber. --Shak.

Rest to my soul, and slumber to my eyes. --Dryden.

I hear that in "Otello" productions the strangled Ms. Te Kanawa keeps from deep slumber by counting the number of coughs (from the audience, not the tenor), and once got up to a hundred.
Analysts said the economic slumber that has gripped the western world in recent weeks appears to have had a similar effect on car sales.
Although economists are just beginning to worry that inflation is reawakening after a five-year slumber, consumers such as Ms. Barbanel say they noticed its early stirrings months ago.
Less than two miles away, "help wanted" signs festoon the stores in and around Dock Square as Kennebunkport awakens from its off-season slumber to begin what may be remembered as its last summer of relative obscurity.
When slumber reached a point called rapid eye movement, or REM, sleep, they were awakened and asked to recount their dreams.
The Republican Party awoke from its post-Watergate slumber.
"The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has to awake from its long slumber and realize that the people's multi-billion-dollar business in Chicago has to be vigorously supervised by the people's regulatory agency," the Missouri Democrat said.
Albeit belatedly, the government has been shaken from its post-unification slumber and now expresses more of a desire to take on an international role.
But only when the industrial average was down 102 points during the session did currency trading rooms awaken from their midsummer slumber to sell the dollar out of its accustomed range.
For after-office therapy at home, Ms. Seiler advocates a sound night's slumber to erase vestiges of work-related tension.
"The only part of the car that the driver is always touching is the steering wheel," he noted, and that contact can be used to monitor electrical patterns in the driver's body that signal approaching slumber.
Now that the market for initial public stock offerings has awakened from its long slumber, investors aiming to snare quick profits by "flipping" IPOs are starting to come out of hibernation.

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