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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I did not dare to leave him, so waved her away, and at last fell asleep on the sofa.
-- Were they asleep or dead?
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Meanwhile the birds of desire were asleep in the vast inter-laced intricacy of her body.
-- Connie was in bed, and fast asleep all this time.
-- He had slept so fast!It was such a new day!The woman was still curled asleep and tender.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That she looked at the candle she had left burning, and, measuring the time like King Alfred the Great, was confirmed by its wasted state in her belief that she had been asleep for some considerable period.
-- She expected to see Jeremiah fast asleep or in a fit, but he was calmly seated in a chair, awake, and in his usual health.
-- 'Why, Affery, woman Affery!You have been getting out of bed in your sleep, my dear!I come up, after having fallen asleep myself, below, and find you in your wrapper here, with the nightmare.
-- When she fell asleep in the little armchair by the high fender, the turnkey would cover her with his pocket-handkerchief; and when she sat in it dressing and undressing a doll which soon came to be unlike dolls on the other side of the lock, and to bear a horrible family resemblance to Mrs Bangham he would contemplate her from the top of his stool with exceeding gentleness.
-- Afterwards, there were tea-gardens, shrimps, ale, and other delicacies; and then they would come back hand in hand, unless she was more than usually tired, and had fallen asleep on his shoulder.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Beth and Amy soon fell asleep in spite of the great trouble, but Meg lay awake, thinking the most serious thoughts she had ever known in her short life.
-- Jo, laughed, and Meg sharply ordered her not to talk, then amiably promised to make her hair curl, and fell asleep to dream of living in her castle in the air.
-- Amy did not come, Meg went to her room to try on a new dress, Jo was absorbed in her story, and Hannah was sound asleep before the kitchen fire, when Beth quietly put on her hood, filled her basket with odds and ends for the poor chil-dren, and went out into the chilly air with a heavy head and a grieved look in her patient eyes.
-- 'Yesterday, when Aunt was asleep and I was trying to be as still as a mouse, Polly began to squall and flap about in his cage, so I went to let him out, and found a big spider there.
-- Nothing of the sort, for not a soul appeared but a sanginary-looking boy asleep under the cur-rent bushes.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We had been sitting in this crouching manner for some time, when all at once I thought I would open my eyes; for when between sheets, whether by day or by night, and whether asleep or awake, I have a way of always keeping my eyes shut, in order the more to concentrate the snugness of being in bed.
-- Ahab and all his boat's crew seemed asleep but the Parsee; who crouching in the bow, sat watching the sharks, that spectrally played round the whale, and tapped the light cedar planks with their tails.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Being very tired with his walk, however, he soon fell asleep and forgot his troubles.
-- These, however, had no worse effect than causing her to rub her nose very hard, and then fall asleep again.
-- Barney, having made all fast, rolled himself up as before, and was soon asleep again.
-- After a short absence, he returned with a lighted candle, and the intelligence that Toby Crackit was asleep in the back room below, and that the boys were in the front one.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was so dead asleep at first, being fatigued with rowing, or part of the day, and with walking the latter part, that I did not wake thoroughly; but dozing thought I dreamed that somebody spoke to me; but as the voice continued to repeat, 'Robin Crusoe, Robin Crusoe,' at last I began to wake more perfectly, and was at first dreadfully frightened, and started up in the utmost consternation; but no sooner were my eyes open, but I saw my Poll sitting on the top of the hedge; and immediately knew that it was he that spoke to me; for just in such bemoaning language I had used to talk to him and teach him; and he had learned it so perfectly that he would sit upon my finger, and lay his bill close to my face and cry, 'Poor Robin Crusoe!Where are you?
-- I was fast asleep in my hutch one morning, when my man Friday came running in to me, and called aloud, 'Master, master, they are come, they are come!'
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Little Tommy Barnes was asleep now, and when they waked him up he was scared, and cried, and said he wanted to go home to his ma, and didn't want to be a robber any more.
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