slumber

slumber
(poetic/literary)(/)
verb
  1. [no obj.]sleep
    沉睡
    Sleeping Beauty slumbered in her forest castle.
    睡美人在森林城堡中沉睡。
    the village street slumbered under the afternoon sun.
    乡村小街在午后阳光中沉睡。
noun
  1. (常作slumbers)a sleep
    睡眠
    scaring folk from their slumbers.
    把人们从睡梦中惊醒。
slumber away
  1. spend (time) in slumber
派生
slumberer
noun
slumberous
adjective
  1. (亦作 slumberous)
语源
  1. Middle English: alteration of Scots and northern English sloom, in the same sense. The -b- was added for ease of pronunciation
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