slumber是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 睡眠； 沉睡状态，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Glenarvan, Robert, and Thalcave, had followed the common example, and lay in profound slumber on their soft couch of lucerne.
-- The only consolation in such circumstances was to sleep, and accordingly each one lay down and endeavored to find in slumber a temporary forgetfulness of his discomforts and his fatigues.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As sheep dogs that watch their flocks when they are yarded, and hear a wild beast coming through the mountain for-est towards them forthwith there is a hue and cry of dogs and men, and slumber is broken even so was sleep chased from the eyes of the Achaeans as they kept the watches of the wicked night, for they turned constantly towards the plain whenever they heard any stir among the Trojans.
-- Close Jove's keen eyes for me in slumber while I hold him clasped in my embrace, and I will give you a beautiful golden seat, that can never fall to pieces; my clubfooted son Vulcan shall make it for you, and he shall give it a footstool for you to rest your fair feet upon when you are at table.'
-- Here a very deep slumber took hold upon him and eased the burden of his sorrows, for his limbs were weary with chasing Hector round windy Ilius.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the tenth morning of his suspense, he was startled by the shining of the sun into the room where a heavy slumber had overtaken him when it was dark night.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though the arts of peace were unknown to this fatal region, its forests were alive with men; its shades and glens rang with the sounds of martial music, and the echoes of its mountains threw back the laugh, or repeated the wan-ton cry, of many a gallant and reckless youth, as he hurried by them, in the noontide of his spirits, to slumber in a long night of forgetfulness.
-- Birds, beasts, and man, appeared to slumber alike, if, indeed, any of the latter were to be found in that wide tract of wilderness.
-- Imbibing renewed confidence from the security of these experienced foresters, Heyward soon imitated their exam-ple; and long before the night had turned, they who lay in the bosom of the ruined work, seemed to slumber as heav-ily as the unconscious multitude whose bones were already beginning to bleach on the surrounding plain.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As slumber gradually stole upon me, I heard the wind howling outat sea and coming on across the flat so fiercely, that I had a lazyapprehension of the great deep rising in the night.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was only Mrs Quilp at home, and she, little expecting the return of her lord, was just composing herself for a refreshing slumber when the sound of his footsteps roused her.
-- The old man was yet asleep, and as she was unwilling to disturb him, she left him to slumber on, until the sun rose.
-- A deeper slumber followed this and then What!That figure in the room.
-- 'Yes, Sir, indeed,' returned Dick, yielding to his destiny and saying whatever came uppermost; 'an equal quantity of slumber was never got out of one bed and bedstead, and if you're going to sleep in that way, you must pay for a double-bedded room.'
-- 'Mr Richard, sir, good morning!Here we are again, sir, entering upon another day, with our bodies strengthened by slumber and breakfast, and our spirits fresh and flowing.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After a night's orgies there would come a deep slumber till three or four o'clock in the afternoon; then the weary rising from a dirty couch; seltzer-water to remove the effect of excessive drinking, coffee.
-- he asked himself, and, being unable to find answers to these questions, he was stricken with such sadness and despair as he had rarely experienced before, and he fell into that deep slumber which had been habitual with him after heavy losses at cards.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The mockingbird, which nested in the tangle of roses andhoneysuckle, roused from slumber and gave one timid, liquid note.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At length, one evening when dinner was over and I had dropped into a slumber quite worn out,--for my nights had been agitated and my rest broken by fearful dreams,--I was roused by the welcome footstep on the staircase.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let them be this, let them be taken up entirely in their work, let them be perfect parts of a great machine, having a slumber of constant repetition.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let us sup now, and seek slumber as best we may."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes she was so worn out that for a few minutes they would slumber together.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The profoundest slumber slept upon him.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But soon the anchor was short up; soon it was hanging dripping at the bows; soon the sails began to draw, and the land and shipping to flit by on either side; and before I could lie down to snatch an hour of slumber the Hispaniola had begun her voyage to the Isle of Treasure.
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