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词汇 slumber
释义 slumber
noun[ C or U ]
 literaryuk /ˈslʌm.bər/ us /ˈslʌm.bɚ/
sleep: 睡觉,睡眠
I fell into a gentle slumber.我甜甜地睡去。
I didn't want to rouse you from your slumbers.我不想把你从睡梦中叫醒。
figurativeSharp cuts in interest rates have failed to bring the economy out of its slumber.大幅度降低利率并没有使经济复苏。
Synonyms
kipUKinformal
shuteyeinformal , old-fashioned in UK
sleep(NOT AWAKE)
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Animal physiology: sleep & sleeping
altered state of consciousness
beauty
bed
bunk
bye-byes
catch/cop/get some z'sidiom
comatose
count
crash
doss
doze off
drift off
sleep
sleeping
sleepwalk
sleepwalking
snooze
snoozing
somnambulate
your beauty sleepidiom
slumber
verb[ I ]
 literaryuk /ˈslʌm.bər/ us /ˈslʌm.bɚ/
to sleep睡,睡觉
Synonyms
kipUKinformal
sleep
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Animal physiology: sleep & sleeping
altered state of consciousness
beauty
bed
bunk
bye-byes
catch/cop/get some z'sidiom
comatose
count
crash
doss
doze off
drift off
sleep
sleeping
sleepwalk
sleepwalking
snooze
snoozing
somnambulate
your beauty sleepidiom

slumber | American Dictionary


slumber
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˈslʌm·bər/
sleep:
[ C ]She felt as if she had awakened from a long slumber.

slumber


verb[ I ]us/ˈslʌm·bər/
The small town slumbered in the moonlight.

Examples of slumber


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I hate to wake him from his slumbers; he looks so attractive when he is asleep.
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While we are still slumbering in our beds, they are getting the best places on the beach.
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There they were, slumbering, not only innocuously, but with fruitful and advantageous results to the revenue.
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There is a lot of dead wood, but it is slumbering silently there.
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I should not like to think that he was not slumbering well.
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We have all got, in the years that are before us, to lie upon a new bed, and we must not be surprised if our slumbers are sometimes disturbed.
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The region that slumbers on the banks of the river.
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Viy is an enormous demon that slumbers within the earth, so massive that it needs helper demons to function.
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Instead, he favored an implicit over an explicit definition, which he believed would likely excite controversies now slumbering and almost extinct.
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We seem to move on a thin crust which may at any time be rent by the subterranean forces slumbering beneath.
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In us slumbers the love to which nothing is impossible.
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Closer inspection reveals it to be a giant slumbering human head.
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Must it turn its back upon all experience and go off into a comfortable slumber, in the hope that such matters will never occur again?
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We can either be alive to that call or hit the snooze button and slumber on.
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They have to be moving about in the early hours long before the proverbial milk- man has disturbed the slumber of the town dweller.
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