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

• Although this kind of loneliness can cause physical problems, such as headaches and sleeplessness, it usually does not last for more than a year.
  虽然，这种寂寞会引起身体问题，诸如头疼或失眠，但他通常持续不会超过一年。
• 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。
• Sleeplessness causes loss of productivity.
  彻夜难眠还会引起生产力的损失呢。
• These products are used for pain, fever, colds and sleeplessness.
  人们因疼痛，发热，感冒和失眠而广泛使用这些药物。
• 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。
• Of course, too much caffeine can cause restlessness, anxiety, irritability, tremors, sleeplessness, headaches, gastrointestinal symptoms and abnormal heart rhythms.
  当然，过多的咖啡因会导致烦躁、焦虑、兴奋、震颤、失眠、头痛、胃肠道症状以及不规律心律等等。
• You need a thorough rest to get rid of your sleeplessness.
  你需要彻底休息一下，消除困乏。
• 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，因为咖啡因会使失眠更严重。
• The very act of concentration seemed to make me more wakeful than ever, and I would pass hours in tormenting sleeplessness.
  高度集中的精力让我比任何时候都清醒，我不得不在折磨人的失眠中捱过几个钟头。
• 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。