asleep是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 睡觉， 睡着(用作表语)，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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Sheoften talked to them two downstairs- for she loved them, shecouldn't bear not to love anyone who was about her- but whenthey went away from her bedside, she always turned to me, as ifthere was rest where Peggotty was, and never fell asleep in anyother way.
-- Here, among pillows enough for six, Isoon fell asleep in a blissful condition, and dreamed of ancientRome, Steerforth, and friendship, until the early morning coaches,rumbling out of the archway underneath, made me dream ofthunder and the gods.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was a misty shape, and well she might be, considering that her original was at that moment sound asleep and oblivious of all love and letter-writing under the sky.
-- "O, I know it all all," she said, adding slowly: "They are all asleep in the barn, in a drunken sleep, and my husband among them.
-- What Troy did was to sink upon his knees with an indefinable union of remorse and reverence upon his face, and, bending over Fanny Robin, gently kissed her, as one would kiss an infant asleep to avoid awakening it.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Carreen should have been asleep long ago.
-- Often in the late night hours, when the lamps were out and Melanie asleep and deathly silence pressed over thetown, Scarlett, lying awake, heard the latch of the front gate click and soft urgent tappings on the front door.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I fell asleep recalling what I "used to do" when I was at Miss Havisham's; as though I had been there weeks or months, instead of hours; and as though it were quite an old subject of remembrance, instead of one that had arisen only that day.
-- Whereas they were easy of innocent solution apart,--as, for instance, some diner out or diner at home, who had not gone near this watchman's gate, might have strayed to my staircase and dropped asleep there,--and my nameless visitor might have brought some one with him to show him the way,--still, joined, they had an ugly look to one as prone to distrust and fear as the changes of a few hours had made me.
-- When he fell asleep of an evening, with his knotted hands clenching the sides of the easy-chair, and his bald head tattooed with deep wrinkles falling forward on his breast, I would sit and look at him, wondering what he had done, and loading him with all the crimes in the Calendar, until the impulse was powerful on me to start up and fly from him.
-- Provis, who had been asleep too, staggered up at the noise I made, and in an instant I saw his jackknife shining in his hand.
-- I soon fell asleep before Wemmick's fire, and the Aged and I enjoyed one another's society by falling asleep before it more or less all day.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the morning came the fox again and met him as he was beginning his journey, and said, 'Go straight forward, till you come to a castle, before which lie a whole troop of soldiers fast asleep and snoring: take no notice of them, but go into the castle and pass on and on till you come to a room, where the gold-en bird sits in a wooden cage; close by it stands a beautiful golden cage; but do not try to take the bird out of the shab-by cage and put it into the handsome one, otherwise you will repent it.'
-- You must go straight on till you come to the castle where the horse stands in his stall: by his side will lie the groom fast asleep and snoring: take away the horse quietly, but be sure to put the old leathern saddle upon him, and not the golden one that is close by it.'
-- Then the twelfth of the friendly fairies, who had not yet giv-en her gift, came forward, and said that the evil wish must be fulfilled, but that she could soften its mischief; so her gift was, that the king's daughter, when the spindle wounded her, should not really die, but should only fall asleep for a hundred years.
-- However, she was not dead, but had only fallen into a deep sleep; and the king and the queen, who had just come home, and all their court, fell asleep too; and the horses slept in the stables, and the dogs in the court, the pigeons on the house-top, and the very flies slept upon the walls.
-- Even the fire on the hearth left off blazing, and went to sleep; the jack stopped, and the spit that was turning about with a goose upon it for the king's dinner stood still; and the cook, who was at that moment pulling the kitchen-boy by the hair to give him a box on the ear for something he had done amiss, let him go, and both fell asleep; the butler, who was slyly tasting the ale, fell asleep with the jug at his lips: and thus everything stood still, and slept soundly.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I heard the word Burglum repeated incessantly: sev-eral of the emperor's court, making their way through the crowd, entreated me to come immediately to the palace, where her imperial majesty's apartment was on fire, by the carelessness of a maid of honour, who fell asleep while she was reading a romance.
-- It would make them sometimes hug, and sometimes tear one another; they would howl, and grin, and chatter, and reel, and tumble, and then fall asleep in 333the mud.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Adam Smith and Malthus, two younger Gradgrinds, were out at lecture in custody; and little Jane, after manufacturing a good deal of moist pipe-clay on her face with slate-pencil and tears, had fallen asleep over vulgar fractions.
-- He took his end of candle from a shelf, lighted it at another end of candle on the counter, without disturbing the mistress of the shop who was asleep in her little room, and went upstairs into his lodging.
-- But on winter evenings, when he has fallen asleep at his table, I have heard him, what I should prefer to describe as partially choke.
-- He was almost falling asleep over this compliment; it took him so long to get through, and his mind wandered so much in the course of its execution.
-- Run, run!Quickening herself by carrying such entreaties in her thoughts, she ran from field to field, and lane to lane, and place to place, as she had never run before; until she came to a shed by an engine-house, where two men lay in the shade, asleep on straw.
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