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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am thus abroad because sleep sits not upon my eyelids, but my heart is big with war and with the jeopardy of the Achaeans.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But being a sensible woman, she subdued her terrors and turned over and went to sleep again.
-- On others he would rise late, pace his room, fretting audibly for hours together, smoke, sleep in the armchair by the fire.
-- Anyhow I meant to sleep in this house to-night.
-- "Kemp," he said, "I've had no sleep for near three days, except a couple of dozes of an hour or so.
-- I must sleep soon."
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After a day of alternate sleep and feeding I was so far re-covered as to be able to get from my bunk to the scuttle, and see the green seas trying to keep pace with us.
-- After he had vented his wrath on me he had staggered below, and I understand he went to sleep on the floor of his own cabin.
-- 'If you don't sleep to-night,' he said, 'you'll be off your head to-morrow.'
-- My Saint-Bernard-brute fol-lowed me to the enclosure every night, and his vigilance enabled me to sleep at times in something like peace.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he was not learning he sat out in the sun and slept, and ate and went to sleep again.
-- He loved better than any-thing else to go with Bagheera into the dark warm heart of the forest, to sleep all through the drowsy day, and at night see how Bagheera did his killing.
-- 'Full gorge and a deep sleep to you, Rann,' cried Ba-gheera.
-- There was a difficulty at bedtime, because Mowgli would not sleep under anything that looked so like a panther trap as that hut, and when they shut the door he went through the window.
-- Then they sleep and wake and sleep again, and weave little baskets of dried grass and put grass-hoppers in them; or catch two praying mantises and make them fight; or string a necklace of red and black jungle nuts; or watch a lizard basking on a rock, or a snake hunting a frog near the wallows.
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：
-- According to the orders of the preceding night, the heavy sleep of the army was broken by the rolling of the warning drums, whose rattling echoes were heard issuing, on the damp morning air, out of every vista of the woods, just as day began to draw the shaggy outlines of some tall pines of the vicinity, on the opening brightness of a soft and cloud-less eastern sky.
-- A man had better sleep without his scalp, than famish in the midst of plenty.'
-- You have driven their tribes from the seashore, and would now believe what their enemies say, that you may sleep at night upon an easy pillow.
-- 'I could sleep in peace,' whispered Alice, in reply, 'with such a fearless and generous-looking youth for my sentinel.
-- 'Leave us not, Duncan,' said Alice: 'we cannot sleep in such a place as this, with that horrid cry still ringing in our ears.'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To look upon its grass-grown yard, where the sunbeams seem to sleep so quietly, one would think that there at least the dead might rest in peace.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I shouldn't sleep a wink for thinking of him."
-- I had a divan in my sitting-room, and could very well sleep on that.
-- It was the first natural sleep he had had for a week.
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