sleeplessness

英

美

n.  失眠，警觉

医学

BNC.35976 / COCA.24526

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 不睡觉的;不眠的
  Asleeplessnight is one during which you do not sleep.
  1. I have sleepless nights worrying about her.
     我好几个晚上都睡不着，一直担心她。
• ADJ 睡不着的;失眠的
  Someone who issleeplessis unable to sleep.
  1. A sleepless baby can seem to bring little reward.
     宝宝睡不着觉似乎没有任何好处。

英英释义

noun

• a temporary state in which you are unable (or unwilling) to sleep
  1. accept your wakefulness and sleep in its own contrary way is more likely to come
  Synonym:wakefulness

双语例句

• She knows the reason for his sleeplessness.
  她知道他失眠的原因。
• For me, exhaustion translates to lower back pain, sleeplessness and dehydration.
  对我来说，它是后腰部疼痛、失眠、脱水。
• Digestion problems, sleeplessness, frequent yawns, restlessness and many more are some of the results of tension and anxiety.
  消化问题、失眠、经常打了个哈欠，烦躁不安，更多的是一些结果的紧张和焦虑。
• After a night spent in fever and sleeplessness, I forced myself to take a long tramp the next day through the hilly country which was covered with pine woods.
  经过一个晚上的高度兴奋和失眠，我强迫自己第二天徒步穿越多丘的乡村，那里到处是松林。
• However, too much anxiety can result in sleeplessness, loss of appetite before tests, and poor performance.
  可是，如果过度焦虑则会引起失眠、考试前没有食欲以及表现不好。
• Almost all other animals are clearly observed to partake in sleep, whether they are aquatic, aerial, or terrestrial, wrote Aristotle in his work On Sleep and Sleeplessness.
  亚里士多德在文章《论睡和醒》中写道：人们清楚地观察到，几乎所有的动物都会睡觉，不论是水生、陆生还是在空中飞翔的动物。
• Towards the end of his life he suffered from sleeplessness and ill health.
  他在临终的前几年患失眠症，健康很差。
• However, the depressed ones, who might suffer from sleeplessness, chose not to drink coffee because the caffeine might exacerbate it.
  然而，那些抑郁的人晚上可能会失眠，失眠了就不会再喝咖啡，因为***会使失眠更严重。
• Sleeplessness produces a variety of health consequences that were not measured in the study, critics said.
  批评者们说这项研究未能考虑失眠对人们健康所造成的种种后果。
• Racing is something you cannot win unless you go through a period of sleeplessness and desperation and develop new technology in a very short period of time, he says via an interpreter.
  他通过翻译表示：如果你不曾经历过一个失眠和绝望的时期，并在极短的时间内开发出新技术，就无法在赛车场上获胜。