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sleeper n.睡眠者；枕木；卧铺；爆冷门；耳环 (1) 我总睡不好。(2) 一条铁路上有许多固定了的枕木。(3) 他通常乘卧铺车回家。(4) 足球比赛爆冷门，有一匹黑马赢球了，是一个名不见经传的新球员。(5) 那部电影爆出冷门，成了今年的最佳影片。突然间，每一个人都不得不一睹为快 You probably know that sleeper can be used in an obvious sense to refer to someone who is asleep. But you also may hear the word used to describe something that becomes an unexpected success, like "a sleeper of a film" featuring unknown actors that ends up becoming the big summer hit. This sense of the word may have originated in the world of gambling in the nineteenth century. When a card player unexpectedly drew a winning card, the card was called "a sleeper."

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英 ['sliːpə(r)] 美 ['sliːpər] (1) I am a bad sleeper.(2) Many sleepers were fixed on a railway.(3) He usually goes home on the sleeper.(4) The football game was won by a sleeper,an unknown new player.(5) That movie is the sleeper of the year: suddenly everyone has to see it. A sleeper is something that succeeds when no one thought it would. That low-tech movie about shark attacks that you shot on vacation and edited in your basement? It could be a sleeper if you market it in the right way. 1[N-COUNT 可数名词]睡觉…者；睡眠…的人 You can use sleeper to indicate how well someone sleeps. For example, if someone is a light sleeper, they are easily woken up.   [adj N]I'm a very light sleeper and I can hardly get any sleep at all...我睡觉很轻，几乎就没睡着。Poor sleepers take longer to fall asleep than good sleepers.与睡眠好的人相比，睡眠不好的人要花更长的时间才能入睡。2[N-COUNT 可数名词](英国英语的)卧铺车厢，卧铺铺位（在美国英语中，sleeping car 指卧铺车厢，roomette 则指一个卧铺的铺位) In British English, a sleeper is a carriage on a train containing beds for passengers to sleep in at night, or a section of such a carriage. The usual American words are sleeping car for the carriage and roomette for the section. 3[N-COUNT 可数名词]卧铺列车 A sleeper is a train with beds for its passengers to sleep in at night.   [BRIT 英]4[N-COUNT 可数名词](铁路上的)枕木 Railway sleepers are large heavy beams that support the rails of a railway track.   [oft n N]  [BRIT 英]in AM, use 美国英语用 ties5[N-COUNT 可数名词]出乎意料的成功者；爆冷门的人(或事物) If you describe someone or something as a sleeper, you mean that they unexpectedly become successful, often after a long period of being inactive or unknown.   [INFORMAL 非正式]...Menno Meyjes, a young Dutch writer, who had had his first success with the sleeper 'The Children's Crusade'.凭借着《童子军》的意外走红而首尝成功的年轻荷兰作家——曼诺·梅耶斯

英语单词	sleeper
英美音标	英 ['sliːpə(r)] 美 ['sliːpər]
中文释义	n.睡眠者；枕木；卧铺；爆冷门；耳环
英语例句	(1) I am a bad sleeper. (2) Many sleepers were fixed on a railway. (3) He usually goes home on the sleeper. (4) The football game was won by a sleeper,an unknown new player. (5) That movie is the sleeper of the year: suddenly everyone has to see it.
中文例句	(1) 我总睡不好。 (2) 一条铁路上有许多固定了的枕木。 (3) 他通常乘卧铺车回家。 (4) 足球比赛爆冷门，有一匹黑马赢球了，是一个名不见经传的新球员。 (5) 那部电影爆出冷门，成了今年的最佳影片。突然间，每一个人都不得不一睹为快
vocabulary简明	A sleeper is something that succeeds when no one thought it would. That low-tech movie about shark attacks that you shot on vacation and edited in your basement? It could be a sleeper if you market it in the right way.
vocabulary扩展	You probably know that sleeper can be used in an obvious sense to refer to someone who is asleep. But you also may hear the word used to describe something that becomes an unexpected success, like "a sleeper of a film" featuring unknown actors that ends up becoming the big summer hit. This sense of the word may have originated in the world of gambling in the nineteenth century. When a card player unexpectedly drew a winning card, the card was called "a sleeper."
柯林斯解释	1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]睡觉…者；睡眠…的人 You can use sleeper to indicate how well someone sleeps. For example, if someone is a light sleeper, they are easily woken up. [adj N] I'm a very light sleeper and I can hardly get any sleep at all... 我睡觉很轻，几乎就没睡着。 Poor sleepers take longer to fall asleep than good sleepers. 与睡眠好的人相比，睡眠不好的人要花更长的时间才能入睡。 2 [N-COUNT 可数名词](英国英语的)卧铺车厢，卧铺铺位（在美国英语中，sleeping car 指卧铺车厢，roomette 则指一个卧铺的铺位) In British English, a sleeper is a carriage on a train containing beds for passengers to sleep in at night, or a section of such a carriage. The usual American words are sleeping car for the carriage and roomette for the section. 3 [N-COUNT 可数名词]卧铺列车 A sleeper is a train with beds for its passengers to sleep in at night. [BRIT 英] 4 [N-COUNT 可数名词](铁路上的)枕木 Railway sleepers are large heavy beams that support the rails of a railway track. [oft n N] [BRIT 英] in AM, use 美国英语用 ties 5 [N-COUNT 可数名词]出乎意料的成功者；爆冷门的人(或事物) If you describe someone or something as a sleeper, you mean that they unexpectedly become successful, often after a long period of being inactive or unknown. [INFORMAL 非正式] ...Menno Meyjes, a young Dutch writer, who had had his first success with the sleeper 'The Children's Crusade'. 凭借着《童子军》的意外走红而首尝成功的年轻荷兰作家——曼诺·梅耶斯

Sleeper N Count 可数名词 Sleep I Unknown Movie Sense