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sleepy

英 ['sliːpɪ] 美 ['slipi]

解释

adj. 欲睡的；困乏的；不活跃的

※ 提供单词"sleepy"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

英文词源

sleepy (adj.): early 13c. from sleep (n.) + -y (2). Perhaps in Old English but not recorded. Old English had slæpor, slæpwerig in the sense "sleepy;" slæpnes "sleepiness." Similar formation in Old High German slafag. Of places, from 1851 (Irving's Sleepy Hollow is from 1820). Sleepy-head is from 1570s. Related: Sleepily; sleepiness.

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例句和用法

1. She was still tired and sleepy when he woke her.: 他叫醒她的时候，她仍然又累又困。

2. All of a sudden she didn't look sleepy any more.: 她突然看起来一点都不困了。

3. Sleepy-eyed commuters were wending their way to work.: 睡眼惺忪的通勤族拖着沉重的步子上班去。

4. I was beginning to feel amazingly sleepy.: 我开始感到异常困倦。

5. I feel terribly sleepy all at once.: 我突然觉得特别困。