单词 | slumber |
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音标 | ['slʌmbə] |
解释 | v.睡眠,安睡;n.安睡 |
红宝书 | 【英】 n./v. 睡眠,安睡(sleep; a light sleep) 【例】 slumber peacefully(安睡)/a heavy slumber |
字源 | slumber (n.) mid-14c., from slumber (v.). Slumber party first recorded 1942. Slumberland is from 1875. slumber (v.) mid-14c. alteration of slumeren (mid-13c.), frequentative form of slumen "to doze," probably from Old English sluma "light sleep" (compare Middle Dutch slumen, Dutch sluimeren, German schlummern "to slumber"). Frequentative on the notion of "intermittent light sleep." For the -b-, compare number, lumber, chamber, etc. Related: Slumbered; slumbering. |
不择手段背单词 | n. /v. 睡眠; 安睡 = sleep 【记】s死得像lumber木材-睡眠 【参】slumberous(adj 昏昏欲睡的) |
趣味全助记 | 【记】s 音:睡 + lumber 伐木,伐木太累了睡着了;slum + er 贫民窟里的人整天睡觉,无所事事;sleep number;sleep + 音:muber 木板 睡木板 |
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