| 英语单词 | insomnia |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 [ɪn'sɒmniə] 美 [ɪn'sɑːmniə] |
| 中文释义 | n.失眠;失眠症 |
| 英语例句 | (1) Lately he has been moaning about his insomnia and headache. (2) Too much stress on the job could cause insomnia. (3) The medicine works like magic on insomnia. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 他近来一直诉说自己患了失眠和头痛症。 (2) 工作压力太大可能会导致失眠。 (3) 这药治疗失眠有奇效。 |
| vocabulary简明 | A person who has trouble falling or staying asleep is suffering from insomnia. If after a hot bath, a glass of warm milk, and hours of counting sheep, you still find yourself lying wide awake in bed, it's time to admit you have insomnia. |
| vocabulary扩展 | There's no cure for insomnia, but people with insomnia are advised to go to bed at the same time every night and to try to avoid stress. The noun insomnia was borrowed from Latin insomnis "sleepless," from the prefix in-, "not," plus somnus, "sleep." Somnus is actually related to Greek hypnos "sleep," the source of English words such as hypnosis and hypnotic. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]失眠;失眠症 Someone who suffers from insomnia finds it difficult to sleep. |
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