sleep是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. (slept， slept) 睡n. 睡眠，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Often he went to sleep on it, as he was, without undressing, without sheets, wrapped in his old student's overcoat, with his head on one little pillow, under which he heaped up all the linen he had, clean and dirty, by way of a bolster.
-- Dounia did not sleep all night before she made up her mind, and, thinking that I was asleep, she got out of bed and was walking up and down the room all night; at last she knelt down before the ikon and prayed long and fervently and in the morning she told me that she had decided.
-- Soon heavy, leaden sleep came over him, as it were crushing him.
-- 'Going to sleep again,' cried Nastasya.
-- 'How could I go to sleep again with nothing done?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I would have given any money to have been allowed towrap myself up overnight, and sleep in my hat and boots.
-- Peggotty always went to sleep with her chin upon the handle of thebasket, her hold of which never relaxed; and I could not havebelieved unless I had heard her do it, that one defenceless womancould have snored so much.
-- But I live on broken wittles- and I sleep on the coals'- here thewaiter burst into tears.
-- At last the sun rose, andthen my companions seemed to sleep easier.
-- As thesun got higher, their sleep became lighter, and so they graduallyone by one awoke.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her father composed himself to sleep after dinner, as usual, and she had then only to sit and think of what she had lost.
-- In Frank's last letter she complained, he said, of being too weak to get into her con-servatory without having both his arm and his uncle's!This, you know, speaks a great degree of weakness but now she is so impatient to be in town, that she means to sleep only two nights on the road. So Frank writes word.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Passing from the profoundest sleep to the most alert wakefulness with the same ease that had accompanied the reverse operation, he looked at his watch, found that the hour-hand had shifted again, put on his hat, took the lamb in his arms, and carried it into the darkness.
-- But I'll sell it, and sit under thatched hurdles as they did in old times, and curl up to sleep in a lock of straw!It played me nearly the same trick the other day!"
-- My uncle has a hut like this one, and I have heard him tell his shepherd not to go to sleep without leaving a slide open.
-- Oak resolved to sleep at Weatherbury that night on his way to Shottsford, and struck out at once into the high road which had been recommended as the direct route to the village in question.
-- On somewhat suddenly awaking, after a sleep of whose length he had no idea, Oak found that the waggon was in motion.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When a young man makes up his mind that he will work all night, the chances are that seven times out of ten he will sleep till morning.
-- It's nearly ten o'clock, and you let me sleep like a dormouse!Such a thing has never happened before."
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By degrees, after the morning's dawn, sleep came.
-- I started from my sleep with horror; a cold dew covered my forehead, my teeth chattered, and every limb became con-vulsed; when, by the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window shutters, I beheld the wretch the miserable monster whom I had created.
-- Sleep fled from my eyes; I wandered like an evil spirit, for I had committed deeds of mischief beyond description horrible, and more, much more (I persuaded myself) was yet behind.
-- The same lulling sounds acted as a lullaby to my too keen sensations; when I placed my head upon my pillow, sleep crept over me; I felt it as it came and blessed the giver of oblivion.
-- When night came on and brought sleep with it, I was in the greatest fear lest my fire should be extinguished.
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