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英语名人名言: Sleep 睡眠
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  • Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

    Anthony Burgess (1917 - 1993)

    It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward1.

    Baltasar Gracian

    Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

    Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)

    If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.

    Dale Carnegie

    Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

    Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )

    There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

    Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey2

    To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.

    Joan Klempner

    People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.

    Leo J. Burke

    Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery3 of having partied all night... without the satisfaction.

    Lynn Johnston (1947 - ), For Better or For Worse, 07-22-06

    I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

    Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

    Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing,

    Beloved from pole to pole.

    Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)

    When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'

    Steven Wright (1955 - )

    I guess staying up late is good preparation for sweet dreams.

    Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005

    [Sleep is] the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.

    Thomas Dekker (1572 - 1632)

    Death's brother, Sleep.

    Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC), Aeneid

    A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once the benefit of sleep and do the effects of watching!

    William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth, Act V, sc. 1

    Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,

    And where care lodges4, sleep will never lie;

    But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain

    Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign5.

    William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Romeo and Juliet, Act II, sc. 3

    He that sleeps feels not the tooth-ache.

    William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Cymbeline, Act V, sc. 4

    Methought I heard a voice cry, "Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep!"- the innocent sleep.

    William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth, Act II, sc. 2

    O sleep, O gentle sleep, nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, that thou no more wilt6 weigh my eyelids7 down, and steep my senses in forgetfulness.

    William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Henry IV, Part II, Act III, sc. 1

    O sleep, thou ape of death, lie dull upon her and be her sense but as a monument, thus in a chapel8 lying.

    William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Cymbeline, Act II, sc. 2

    Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit9, and look on death itself.

    William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth, Act II, sc. 3

    Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, the death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, chief nourisher in life's feast.

    William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth, Act II, sc. 2

    Sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye, steal me awhile from mine own company.

    William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act III, sc. 2

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    1 afterward ['ɑ:ftəwəd] fK6y3   第7级
    adv.后来;以后
    参考例句:
    • Let's go to the theatre first and eat afterward. 让我们先去看戏,然后吃饭。
    • Afterward, the boy became a very famous artist. 后来,这男孩成为一个很有名的艺术家。
    2 odyssey [ˈɒdəsi] t5kzU   第11级
    n.长途冒险旅行;一连串的冒险
    参考例句:
    • The march to Travnik was the final stretch of a 16-hour odyssey. 去特拉夫尼克的这段路是长达16小时艰险旅行的最后一程。
    • His odyssey of passion, friendship, love, and revenge was now finished. 他的热情、友谊、爱情和复仇的漫长历程,到此结束了。
    3 misery [ˈmɪzəri] G10yi   第7级
    n.痛苦,苦恼,苦难;悲惨的境遇,贫苦
    参考例句:
    • Business depression usually causes misery among the working class. 商业不景气常使工薪阶层受苦。
    • He has rescued me from the mire of misery. 他把我从苦海里救了出来。
    4 lodges [lɔdʒz] bd168a2958ee8e59c77a5e7173c84132   第7级
    v.存放( lodge的第三人称单数 );暂住;埋入;(权利、权威等)归属
    参考例句:
    • But I forget, if I ever heard, where he lodges in Liverpool. 可是我记不得有没有听他说过他在利物浦的住址。 来自辞典例句
    • My friend lodges in my uncle's house. 我朋友寄居在我叔叔家。 来自辞典例句
    5 reign [reɪn] pBbzx   第7级
    n.统治时期,统治,支配,盛行;vi.占优势
    参考例句:
    • The reign of Queen Elizabeth lapped over into the seventeenth century. 伊丽莎白王朝延至17世纪。
    • The reign of Zhu Yuanzhang lasted about 31 years. 朱元璋统治了大约三十一年。
    6 wilt [wɪlt] oMNz5   第10级
    vt. 使枯萎;使畏缩;使衰弱 vi. 枯萎;畏缩;衰弱 n. 枯萎;憔悴;衰弱
    参考例句:
    • Golden roses do not wilt and will never need to be watered. 金色的玫瑰不枯萎绝也不需要浇水。
    • Several sleepless nights made him wilt. 数个不眠之夜使他憔悴。
    7 eyelids ['aɪlɪds] 86ece0ca18a95664f58bda5de252f4e7   第8级
    n.眼睑( eyelid的名词复数 );眼睛也不眨一下;不露声色;面不改色
    参考例句:
    • She was so tired, her eyelids were beginning to droop. 她太疲倦了,眼睑开始往下垂。
    • Her eyelids drooped as if she were on the verge of sleep. 她眼睑低垂好像快要睡着的样子。 来自《简明英汉词典》
    8 chapel [ˈtʃæpl] UXNzg   第9级
    n.小教堂,殡仪馆
    参考例句:
    • The nimble hero, skipped into a chapel that stood near. 敏捷的英雄跳进近旁的一座小教堂里。
    • She was on the peak that Sunday afternoon when she played in chapel. 那个星期天的下午,她在小教堂的演出,可以说是登峰造极。
    9 counterfeit [ˈkaʊntəfɪt] 1oEz8   第9级
    vt.伪造,仿造;adj.伪造的,假冒的
    参考例句:
    • It is a crime to counterfeit money. 伪造货币是犯罪行为。
    • The painting looked old but was a recent counterfeit. 这幅画看上去年代久远,实际是最近的一幅赝品。

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