“dog、sleep”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

dog-sleep

释义

dog-sleep
[In reference to the light sleeping of dogs, and the difficulty of telling whether, when their eyes are shut, they are asleep or not.]
†1. Feigned or pretended sleep. Obs.
a1613Overbury A Wife (1638) 298 A jealous man sleepes dog-sleepes.a1625Fletcher Women Pleased iii. iv.1711Addison Spect. No. 184 ⁋6 He is represented to have slept what the common People call a Dog's Sleep; or if his Sleep was real, his Wife was awake, and about her Business.
2. A light or fitful sleep, easily interrupted.
1708Motteux Rabelais iv. lxiii. (1737) 258 How one might avoid Dog-sleep.1822De Quincey Confess. Wks. V. 163 My sleep was never more than what is called dog-sleep; so that I could hear myself moaning; and very often I was awakened suddenly by my own voice.1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Dog-sleep, the uncomfortable fitful naps taken when all hands are kept up by stress.

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