sleepy是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 想睡的； 寂静的，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am as rickety as a hackney-coach, I'm as sleepy as laudanum, my lines is strained to that degree that I shouldn't know, if it wasn't for the pain in 'em, which was me and which somebody else, yet I'm none the better for it in pocket; and it's my suspicion that you've been at it from morning to night to prevent me from being the better for it in pocket, and I won't put up with it, Aggerawayter, and what do you say now!'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And, oh dear!how sleepy I am, unluckily," she said, rapidly passing her hand through her hair, feeling for the remaining hairpins.
-- And do you know, Kostya, I'll tell you the truth," he went on, leaning his elbow on the table, and propping on his hand his handsome ruddy face, in which his moist, good-natured, sleepy eyes shone like stars.
-- The instant his lips came together they curved into a blissfully sleepy smile, and with that smile he slowly and deliciously rolled back again.
-- Smiling sleepily still with closed eyes, he flung fat little arms round her shoulders, rolled towards her, with the delicious sleepy warmth and fragrance that is only found in children, and began rubbing his face against her neck and shoulders.
-- He heard the boy in his shrill little voice telling his uncle what he thought about the dogs, who seemed to him huge and terrible creatures, and asking what the dogs were going to hunt next day, and the soldier in a husky, sleepy voice, telling him the sportsmen were going in the morning to the marsh, and would shoot with their guns; and then, to check the boy's questions, he said, "Go to sleep, Vaska; go to sleep, or you'll catch it," and soon after he began snoring himself, and everything was still.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She'll probably be sleepy and wish you hadn't come.
-- Sound of mating birds, sound of spring blossoms dropping in the tranquil air, the bark of sleepy dogs at midnight; who is to set them down and make them anything but hackneyed?
-- Under the sleepy street-lamp, Martin saw a man go mad.
-- He was a very sleepy and unhappy little fireman; he was thinking about the pleasant fire-house and the unending games of pinochle.
-- He was completely fagged; he was, like a surgeon after a battle, like a reporter during an earthquake, perhaps a little insane; but sleepy he was not.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I don't know what the tunes were- if there were suchthings in the performance at all, which I doubt- but the influence ofthe strain upon me was, first, to make me think of all my sorrowsuntil I could hardly keep my tears back; then to take away myappetite; and lastly, to make me so sleepy that I couldn't keep myeyes open.
-- 93The drawback was, that I was often sleepy at night, or out of spiritsand indisposed to resume the story, and then it was rather hardwork, and it must be done; for to disappoint or to displeaseSteerforth was of course out of the question.
-- At last I rose to go to bed, much to the relief of the sleepy waiter,who had got the fidgets in his legs, and was twisting them, andhitting them, and putting them through all kinds of contortions inhis small pantry.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This circumstance, and the generally sleepy air of the whole prospect here, together with the animated and contrasting state of the reverse fa脙搂ade, suggested to the imagination that on the adaptation of the building for farming purposes the vital principle of the house had turned round inside its body to face the other way.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the night was still, it was too still asthough the tree frogs, katydids and sleepy mockingbirds were too frightened to raise their voices in the usual summer-night chorus.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Three or four soldiers who lay upon it in their great-coats were not much interested in us, but just lifted their heads and took a sleepy stare, and then lay down again.
-- As I was sleepy before we were far away from the prison-ship, Joe took me on his back again and carried me home.
-- The whole had a slovenly, confined, and sleepy look, like a cage for a human dormouse; while he, looming dark and heavy in the shadow of a corner by the window, looked like the human dormouse for whom it was fitted up,--as indeed he was.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I slept about eight hours, as I was afterwards assured; and it was no wonder, for the physicians, by the emperor's order, had mingled a sleepy potion in the hogsheads of wine.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Drowsily they whirred all through this sunny day, making the passenger more sleepy and more hot as he passed the humming walls of the mills.
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：
-- Clifford, who couldn't sleep, gambled all night with Mrs Bolton, till she was too sleepy almost to live.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was the sleepy Sunday of his boyhood, when, like a military deserter, he was marched to chapel by a picquet of teachers three times a day, morally handcuffed to another boy; and when he would willingly have bartered two meals of indigestible sermon for another ounce or two of inferior mutton at his scanty dinner in the flesh.
-- 'All here,' said Double, tying up his throat with sleepy carefulness in a shawl.
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