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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Is he asleep still?
-- At one o'clock the wind suddenly lulled, and the weary men fell asleep and woke at daybreak, refreshed and invigorated.
-- No shelter was near, and ponchos had to serve both for tents and coverlets as each man lay down and fell asleep beneath the threatening sky.
-- As the party drove on they stumbled upon a little native boy lying fast asleep beneath the shade of a magnificent banksia.
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：
-- 'That is curious, for I did when I was half asleep fancy that I heard something of the sort.
-- It was a most melancholy vigil, and ended by each of us falling asleep in our chairs.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- V IPPOLYTE, who had fallen asleep during Lebedeff's Hdiscourse, now suddenly woke up, just as though someone had jogged him in the side.
-- I had fallen asleep about an hour before he came in, and dreamed that I was in some room, not my own.
-- Colia told me, when I quite recovered my senses, that I had not been asleep for a moment, but that I had spoken to him about Surikoff the whole while.
-- I don't know what I thought about, nor how I fell asleep or became insensible; but I awoke next morning after nine o'clock when they knocked at my door.
-- He fell asleep on the bench; but his mental disquiet con-tinued through his slumbers.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You would not have then found Agamemnon asleep nor cowardly and unwilling to fight, but eager rather for the fray.
-- The Trojans have their watchfires, for they are bound to have them; they, therefore, are awake and keep each other to their duty as sentinels; but the allies who have come from other places are asleep and leave it to the Trojans to keep guard, for their wives and children are not here.'
-- And now both gods and mortals were fast asleep through the livelong night, but upon Mercury alone, the bringer of good luck, sleep could take no hold for he was thinking all the time how to get King Priam away from the ships without his being seen by the strong force of sentinels.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He may be asleep now, and even were he awake what if he would rather kill his own goats?'
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I got so full of it I didn't notice how long I was staying till the old man hollered and asked me whether I was asleep or drownded.
-- So I hollered again, and then Jim says: 'De man ain't asleep he's dead.
-- There Jim laid, sound asleep on the ground.
-- I poked into the place a-ways and come to a little open patch as big as a bedroom all hung around with vines, and found a man laying there asleep and, by jings, it was my old Jim!
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 6 Pinocchio falls asleep with his feet on a foot warmer, and awakens the next day with his feet all burned off.
-- And my hunger grew, and I went out, and the old man with a nightcap looked out of the window and threw water on me, and I came home and put my feet on the stove to dry them because I was still hungry, and I fell asleep and now my feet are gone but my hunger isn't!Oh!--Oh!--Oh!"
-- Turning toward the audience, he pointed to the rear of the orchestra, yelling wildly at the same time: "Look, look!Am I asleep or awake?
-- As soon as Pinocchio was in bed, he fell fast asleep and began to dream.
-- "Were you awake or asleep when they came?"
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