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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All of them seemed weary, and most of them had sleepy eyes and a shivering expression, while their com- plexions generally appeared to have taken on the colour of the fog outside.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Night-Song in the Jungle It was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day's rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one af-ter the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their tips.
-- Then the only other creature who is allowed at the Pack Council Baloo, the sleepy brown bear who teaches the wolf cubs the Law of the Jungle: old Baloo, who can come and go where he pleases because he eats only nuts and roots and honey rose upon his hind quarters and grunted.
-- After a long time there came back the drawling, sleepy snarl of a full-fed tiger just wakened.
-- Mahadeo!Mahadeo!He made all Thorn for the camel, fodder for the kine, And mother's heart for sleepy head, O little son of mine!
-- Little Toomai came in with a joyous tunk-a-tunk at the end of each verse, till he felt sleepy and stretched himself on the fodder at Kala Nag's side.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
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-- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow I recollect that, when a stripling, my first exploit in squir-rel-shooting was in a grove of tall walnut-trees that shades one side of the valley.
-- From the listless repose of the place, and the peculiar character of its inhabitants, who are descendants from the original Dutch settlers, this sequestered glen has long been known by the name of SLEEPY HOLLOW, and its rustic lads are called the Sleepy Hollow Boys throughout all the neighboring country.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With some of the Chorus, he laughed about the sleepy member who had gone out into the lobby the other night, and voted the wrong way: with others, he deplored that innovating spirit in the time which could not even be prevented from taking an unnatural interest in the public service and the public money: with the physician he had a word to say about the general health; he had also a little information to ask him for, concerning a professional man of unquestioned erudition and polished manners but those credentials in their highest development he believed were the possession of other professors of the healing art (jury droop) whom he had happened to have in the witness-box the day before yesterday, and from whom he had elicited in cross-examination that he claimed to be one of the exponents of this new mode of treatment which appeared to Bar to eh? well, Bar thought so; Bar had thought, and hoped, Physician would tell him so.
-- Therefore, when Arthur now made such an apology, and such a request, and moved her to her desk and seated himself on the stool, Mrs Finching merely began to talk louder and faster, as a delicate hint that she could overhear nothing, and Mr Casby stroked his long white locks with sleepy calmness.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With many thanks, they said good night and crept in, hoping to disturb no one, but the instant their door creaked, two little nightcaps bobbed up, and two sleepy but eager voices cried out... 'Tell about the party!Tell about the party!'
-- It was lined with books, and there were pictures and statues, and distracting little cabinets full of coins and curiosities, and Sleepy Hol-low chairs, and queer tables, and bronzes, and best of all, a great open fireplace with quaint tiles all round it.
-- thought Laurie, opening his sleepy eyes to take a good look, for there was something rather peculiar in the appearance of his neighbors.
-- As the omnibus contained only one other passenger, a sleepy old lady, Amy pocketed her veil and beguiled the te-dium of the way by trying to find out where all her money had gone to.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There stand his trees, each with a hollow trunk, as if a hermit and a crucifix were within; and here sleeps his meadow, and there sleep his cattle; and up from yonder cottage goes a sleepy smoke.
-- You must know that in a settled and civilized ocean like our Atlantic, for example, some skippers think little of pumping their whole way across it; though of a still, sleepy night, should the officer of the deck happen to forget his duty in that respect, the probability would be that he and his shipmates would never again remember it, on account of all hands gently subsiding to the bottom.
-- As if struck by some enchanter's wand, the sleepy ship and every sleeper in it all at once started into wakefulness; and more than a score of voices from all parts of the vessel, simultaneously with the three notes from aloft, shouted forth the accustomed cry, as the great fish slowly and regularly spouted the sparkling brine into the air.
-- But this was very far North, be it remembered, where beer agrees well with the constitution; upon the Equator, in our southern fishery, beer would be apt to make the harpooneer sleepy at the mast-head and boozy in his boat; and grievous loss might ensue to Nantucket and New Bedford.
-- It will sometimes burst from out that cloudless sky, like an exploding bomb upon a dazed and sleepy town.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy if you are anywheres where it won't do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in up-wards of a thousand places.
-- At last I got so sleepy I couldn't keep my eyes open all I could do, and so before I knowed what I was about I was sound asleep, and the candle burning.
-- I didn't want to go to sleep, of course; but I was so sleepy I couldn't help it; so I thought I would take jest one little cat-nap.
-- I had the middle watch, you know, but I was pretty sleepy by that time, so Jim he said he would stand the first half of it for me; he was always mighty good that way, Jim was.
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