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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She liked this position, for she seldom failed to go to sleep during prayers and, inthis posture, it escaped her mother's notice.
-- But when the dancing and toasting were finally ended and the dawn was coming, when all the Atlanta guests whocould be crowded into Tara and the overseer's house had gone to sleep on beds, sofas and pallets on the floor and allthe neighbors had gone home to rest in preparation for the wedding at Twelve Oaks the next day, then the dreamliketrance shattered like crystal before reality.
-- Melanie and Pittypat had gone to sleep hours before, but Scarlett lay awake in the warm darkness, her heart heavyand frightened in her breast.
-- I have enough to eat and occasionally abed to sleep in.
-- Men laydown to sleep where they could see the rails gleaming faintly in the starlight.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt kept an evening school in the village; that is to say, she was a ridiculous old woman of limited means and unlimited infirmity, who used to go to sleep from six to seven every evening, in the society of youth who paid two pence per week each, for the improving opportunity of seeing her do it.
-- As soon as this volume began to circulate, Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt fell into a state of coma, arising either from sleep or a rheumatic paroxysm.
-- I had sadly broken sleep when I got to bed, through thinking of the strange man taking aim at me with his invisible gun, and of the guiltily coarse and common thing it was, to be on secret terms of conspiracy with convicts,--a feature in my low career that I had previously forgotten.
-- I coaxed myself to sleep by thinking of Miss Havisham's, next Wednesday; and in my sleep I saw the file coming at me out of a door, without seeing who held it, and I screamed myself awake.
-- I put my light out, and crept into bed; and it was an uneasy bed now, and I never slept the old sound sleep in it any more.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I will put them into my pillow, and then I am sure I shall sleep soundly without rocking.
-- Wife, go home, and give him a good dinner, and let him have my old cushion to sleep on as long as he lives.'
-- 'Perhaps we 51may,' said the wife; 'but let us sleep upon it, before we make up our minds to that.'
-- Then they went to bed: but Dame Ilsabill could not sleep all night for thinking what she should be next.
-- The frog said, 'I want not your pearls, and jewels, and fine clothes; but if you will love me, and let me live with you and eat from off your golden plate, and sleep upon your bed, I will bring you your ball again.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And I had ordered a hammock to be fixed, by silken ropes from the four corners at the top, to break the jolts, when a servant carried me before him on horseback, as I sometimes desired; and would often sleep in my hammock, while we were upon the road.
-- They are so perpetually alarmed with the apprehensions of these, and the like impending dangers, that they can neither sleep quietly in their beds, nor have any relish for the common pleasures and amusements of life.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I told him I would give her a shake-down here, last night, in order that he might sleep on it before he decided to let her have any association with Louisa.'
-- Try to sleep in the chair there, while I watch.
-- Thou hadst no sleep last night, I can well believe.
-- In my troublous sleep I ha' known thee still to be there.
-- I was obliged to sleep in town after all.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The prospect of going without food and sleep was not a promising one, so I determined to do my best to solve the mystery.
-- CHAPTER 8 THE EIDER-DOWN HUNTER--OFF AT LAST That evening I took a brief walk on the shore near Reykjavik, after which I returned to an early sleep on my bed of coarse planks, where I slept the sleep of the just.
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