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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But his heart was heavy, notwithstanding; and he wished, as he crept into his narrow bed, that that were his coffin, and that he could be lain in a calm and lasting sleep in the churchyard ground, with the tall grass waving gently above his head, and the sound of the old deep bell to soothe him in his sleep.
-- 'I suppose you want some place to sleep in to-night, don't you?'
-- 'I wasn't able to sleep any longer, sir,' replied Oliver, meekly.
-- 'This is not the place I went to sleep in.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then addressing her daughter, 'Oh!my dear, dear Jane, I am so happy!I am sure I shan't get a wink of sleep all night.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I walked about a furlong from the shore, to see if I could find any fresh water to drink, which I did, to my great joy; and having drank, and put a little to-bacco into my mouth to prevent hunger, I went to the tree, and getting up into it, endeavoured to place myself so that if I should sleep I might not fall.
-- till, tired and faint, I was forced to lie down on the ground to repose, but durst not sleep for fear of being devoured.'
-- However, as I had no water in my habitation, I was forced to lie till morning, and went to sleep again.
-- In this second sleep I had this terrible dream: I thought that I was sitting on the ground, on the outside of my wall, where I sat when the storm blew after the earthquake, and that I saw a man descend from a great black cloud, in a bright flame of fire, and light upon the ground.
-- - Having been somewhat refreshed with the sleep I had had, and the fit being entirely off, I got up; and though the fright and terror of my dream was very great, yet I considered that the fit of the ague would return again the next day, and now was my time to get something to re-fresh and support myself when I should be ill; and the first thing I did, I filled a large square case-bottle with water, and set it upon my table, in reach of my bed; and to take off the chill or aguish disposition of the water, I put about a quarter of a pint of rum into it, and mixed them together.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 16Marianne would have thought herself very inexcusable had she been able to sleep at all the first night after parting from Willoughby.
-- In this situation, Elinor, roused from sleep by her agitation and sobs, first perceived her; and after observing her for a few moments with silent anxiety, said, in a tone of the most considerate gentleness,"Marianne, may I ask-?"
-- CHAPTER 31From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes.
-- Mrs. Jennings would have persuaded her, at its conclusion, to take some rest before her mother's arrival, and allow HER to take her place by Marianne; but Elinor had no sense of fatigue, no capability of sleep at that moment about her, and she was not to be kept away from her sister an unnecessary instant.
-- When at last she returned to the unconscious Marianne, she found her just awaking, refreshed by so long and sweet a sleep to the extent of her hopes.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the time of this particular conversation, which occurred at 5 A.M., that little soldier of fortune was sleeping a rather troubled sleep in her new room, alone.
-- In the night he was long getting to sleep because of too much thinking, and in the morning he was early awake, seizing with alacrity upon the same dear subject and pursuing it with vigour.
-- "You'd better sleep alone," she said, "you'll feel better.
-- Night approaching, and a slightly more conversational feeling prevailing, Carrie said: "I think I'll sleep alone to-night.
-- "All right," he said to himself, with an irrepressible frown, "let her sleep alone."
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy if you are anywheres where it won't do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in up-wards of a thousand places.
-- It swore every boy to stick to the band, and never tell any of the secrets; and if anybody done anything to any boy in the band, whichev-er boy was ordered to kill that person and his family must do it, and he mustn't eat and he mustn't sleep till he had killed them and hacked a cross in their breasts, which was the sign of the band.
-- Living in a house and sleeping in a bed pulled on me pretty tight mostly, but before the cold weather I used to slide out and sleep in the woods some-times, and so that was a rest to me.
-- A bed; and bedclothes; and a look'n'-glass; and a piece of carpet on the floor and your own father got to sleep with the hogs in the tanyard.
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