unsleeping

动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. past participle of unsleep form-of,participle,past
形容词 adj.
  1. Not sleeping.
    — All that night Saxon lay, unsleeping, without taking off her clothes, and when she arose in the morning and washed her face and dressed her hair she was aware of a strange numbness, of a feeling of constriction about her head as if it were bound by a heavy band of iron.
  2. Remaining constantly alert. figuratively
    — Did you fixedly gaze, too, upon that ribbed and dented brow; there also, you would see still stranger foot-prints—the foot-prints of his one unsleeping, ever-pacing thought.
  3. Remaining constantly active.
    — Five hundred miles of moonlit fields and sleeping villages; of black towns and unsleeping furnaces; rain, fog, and frost; snow flurry and flood; tunnel and viaduct.

词形变化

more unsleeping comparative most unsleeping superlative

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English sleeping
English unsleeping
From un- + sleeping.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English sleeping
English unsleeping
From un- + sleeping.
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