unsleep

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Sleeplessness; wakefulness. uncountable
    — The more persisting condition, however, — the blueness of months, in which anything from shoe-buttons to hair fillet, from the morning kiss to the struggle in the world's arena, from the half satisfactory day's work to the dreaded night of unsleep, is colored—is not so readily elucidated or relieved; and it certainly leaves the sufferer, not elated, but genrally apprehensive of future attackes.
  2. A sleeplike state that is not true sleep. uncountable
    — Deeper than self entirely, made transparent, The dreamer enters unsleep, a new zone, And in so doing, climbs !
动词 v.
  1. To be wakeful.
    — In my own way I sleep, without slumber or repose, this vegetative life of imagining, and the distant reflection of the silent street lamps, like the quiet foam of a dirty sea, hovers behind my restless eyebrows. I sleep and unsleep.
  2. To awaken; to become wakeful. intransitive
    — He said: "I are sorry, but Ravager is big strong dog. He will be all right soon." […] I sat with, in case he might unsleep.
  3. To cause someone or something to go from a sleeping state to a wakeful one, or to deprive of sleep. transitive
    — And into this chancy sphere we have come, into playtime of desires that destroy or unsleep us.

词形变化

unsleeps present,singular,third-person unsleeping participle,present unslept participle,past unslept past

词源

词源 1
From un- + sleep.
词源 2
From un- + sleep.
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