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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The storm shall not wake thee, nor shark overtake thee, Asleep in the arms of the slow-swinging seas!
-- One day, however, as he was lying half asleep in the warm water somewhere off the Island of Juan Fernandez, he felt faint and lazy all over, just as human people do when the spring is in their legs, and he remembered the good firm beaches of Novastoshnah seven thousand miles away, the games his companions played, the smell of the seaweed, the seal roar, and the fighting.
-- Rikki-tikki was too well bred to bite or scratch, but as soon as Teddy was asleep he went off for his nightly walk round the house, and in the dark he ran up against Chuchundra, the musk-rat, creeping around by the wall.
-- We were asleep when the camels came, but when we were trampled on we got up and walked away.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sound it might have been, but long it was not, for he had not been asleep a quarter of an hour when the boy opened the door and thrust in his head, which was like a bundle of badly-picked oakum.
-- If he were to die if sudden illness had happened to him, and he were never to come home again, alive if, one night, he should come home, and kiss and bless her as usual, and after she had gone to bed and had fallen asleep and was perhaps dreaming pleasantly, and smiling in her sleep, he should kill himself and his blood come creeping, creeping, on the ground to her own bed-room door!These thoughts were too terrible to dwell upon, and again she would have recourse to the street, now trodden by fewer feet, and darker and more silent than before.
-- As the knocking, however, instead of accommodating itself to his lazy state, increased in vigour and became more importunate, as if in earnest remonstrance against his falling asleep again, now that he had once opened his eyes, Daniel Quilp began by degrees to comprehend the possibility of there being somebody at the door; and thus he gradually came to recollect that it was Friday morning, and he had ordered Mrs Quilp to be in waiting upon him at an early hour.
-- At sight of the strange room and its unaccustomed objects she started up in alarm, wondering how she had been moved from the familiar chamber in which she seemed to have fallen asleep last night, and whither she had been conveyed.
-- At length the weary child prevailed upon her grandfather to retire, and they withdrew, leaving the company yet seated round the fire, and the dogs fast asleep at a humble distance.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As soon as I was asleep our girl, Bertha, came and woke me.
-- When he is asleep you can go.'
-- Returning from the church, Nekhludoff broke his fast with the aunts, and to repair his strength, drank some brandy and wine--a habit he acquired in the army--and going to his room immediately fell asleep with his clothes on.
-- She wished to fall asleep again, to transfer herself into a state of unconsciousness, but fear overcame her drowsiness.
-- But he could not fall asleep for a long time.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I don't think it ever happened before, that any one had to take care of two Queens asleep at once!No, not in all the History of England it couldn't, you know, because there never was more than one Queen at a time.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In I got bodily into the apple barrel, and found there was scarce an apple left; but sitting down there in the dark, what with the sound of the waters and the rocking movement of the ship, I had either fallen asleep or was on the point of doing so when a heavy man sat down with rather a clash close by.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is no rare thing to meet in the middle of the ocean whales so sound asleep that they can be successfully attacked, and Ned Land had harpooned more than one during its sleep.
-- Conseil, who was astonished at nothing, seemed to look upon it as quite natural that he should wake under a mountain, after having fallen asleep under the waves.
-- In the distance lay the Nautilus like a cetacean asleep on the water.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her thoughts drifted into unconsciousness, she sat as if asleep beside the fire.
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