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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Wrapped in these warm coverings a traveler may sleep soundly, and brave exposure to the damp nights.
-- Take my advice, and let us go to sleep without troubling our heads about it.
-- He put me to sleep on his knee, crooning an old Scotch ballad about the lochs of our country.
-- However, the Indian's sleep did not last long; for about ten o'clock he woke, sat up, and turned his ear toward the plain, listening intently, with half-closed eyes.
-- However, sleep overpowered them at length.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I found myself weary and yet wakeful, tossing restlessly from side to side, seek-ing for the sleep which would not come.
-- We think, therefore, that he has gone, and the outlying farmers sleep the better in consequence.
-- Both Sir Henry and I were concerned at their situation, and it was suggested that Per-kins the groom should go over to sleep there, but Stapleton would not hear of it.
-- Long afterwards when I had fallen into a light sleep I heard a key turn somewhere in a lock, but I could not tell whence the sound came.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She made her sleep on straw in a shed, and hardly gave her food enough to support life.
-- He, too, had to sleep on an old sofa, a narrow, uncomfortable thing with a torn rug over it; his chief duty being to look after his father, who needed to be watched more and more every day.
-- The gener-al meant to have said much more, but as soon as he had stretched himself out, he turned his face to the wall, and slept the sleep of the just.
-- How often did I sing him to sleep when I was half dead with hunger!In short, I was more than a father to him, and now now he jeers at me!Even if I did cross myself, and pray for the repose of the soul of the Comtesse du Barry, what does it matter?
-- This was my thought as I was sobbing myself to sleep at dawn.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus all day long the young men worshipped the god with song, hymning him and chaunting the joyous paean, and the god took pleasure in their voices; but when the sun went down, and it came on dark, they laid themselves down to sleep by the stern cables of the ship, and when the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared they again set sail for the host of the Achaeans.
-- 'Nevertheless he did distribute some meeds of honour among the chieftains and kings, and these have them still; from me alone of the Achaeans did he take the woman in whom I delighted let him keep her and sleep with her.
-- As for Phoenix, let him sleep here that he may sail with me in the morning if he so will.
-- You ought to help me rather in troubling those that trouble me; be king as much as I am, and share like honour with myself; the others shall take my answer; stay here yourself and sleep comfortably in your bed; at daybreak we will con-sider whether to remain or go.'
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He put his knife under him, and said he would sleep and get strong, and then he would see who was who.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "If tonight it should happen to rain," said the Farmer, "you can sleep in that little doghouse near-by, where you will find plenty of straw for a soft bed.
-- Even though a boy may be very unhappy, he very seldom loses sleep over his worries.
-- Sleep away peacefully, and remember that before we go we shall leave you a nice fat chicken all ready for your breakfast in the morning.
-- I want you to know that the Shark, being very old and suffering from asthma and heart trouble, was obliged to sleep with his mouth open.
-- The sea was like oil, the moon shone in all splendor, and the Shark continued to sleep so soundly that not even a cannon shot would have awakened him.
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