sleeper

英式音标：[ˈsli:pə(r)]

美式音标：[ˈslipɚ]

词语分类：TEM8

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概况：

n. 卧车；卧铺；枕木；睡眠者

n. (Sleeper)人名；(英)斯利珀

词义：

n.

卧车；轨枕；睡觉（呈某种状态）的人；冬眠动物

变形

复数：sleepers

英英释义

sleeper[ 'sli:pə ]

n.

a rester who is sleeping

同义词：slumberer

a spy or saboteur or terrorist planted in an enemy country who lives there as a law-abiding citizen until activated by a prearranged signal

an unexpected achiever of success

"the winner was a true sleeper--no one expected him to get it"

one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track

"the British call a railroad tie a sleeper"

同义词：tierailroad tiecrosstie

a passenger car that has berths for sleeping

同义词：sleeping carwagon-lit

pajamas with feet; worn by children

a piece of furniture that can be opened up into a bed

tropical fish that resembles a goby and rests quietly on the bottom in shallow water

同义词：sleeper goby

an unexpected hit

"that movie was the sleeper of the summer"

用法：

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

I am a bad sleeper.
我总睡不好。

Many sleepers were fixed on a railway.
一条铁路上有许多固定了的枕木。

He usually goes home on the sleeper.
他通常乘卧铺车回家。

The football game was won by a sleeper,an unknown new player.
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。

That movie is the sleeper of the year: suddenly everyone has to see it.
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

权威例句

Aircraft sleeper seat

New life in a sleeper: thalidomide and Crohn's disease.

Insurgent micrometastases: Sleeper cells and harboring the enemy

"When the Sleeper Wakes": A Short Story Extending Themes in Radical Organization Theory

An investigation of sleeper voids using a flexible track model integrated with railway multi-body dynamics

The role of the spontaneous and evoked k-complex in good-sleeper controls and in individuals with insomnia

Beta/Gamma EEG activity in patients with primary and secondary insomnia and good sleeper controls

Lack of hippocampal volume differences in primary insomnia and good sleeper controls: An MRI volumetric study at 3 Tesla

Helminth Parasites of the Pacific Fat Sleeper, Dormitator latifrons (Richardson, 1844) (Osteichthyes: Eleotridae) from Tres Palos La...

Sensitivity analysis of free vibration characteristics of an in situ railway concrete sleeper to variations of rail pad parameters

同义词：sleeping car,Pullman,crosstie,berth

同根词：sleepy,sleeplessness,sleepless,sleeping,sleepiness,sleep

英语词源：

sleeper (n.)

Old English slæpere "one who sleeps, one who is inclined to sleep much," agent noun from sleep (v.). Meaning "strong horizontal beam" is from c. 1600. Meaning "dormant or inoperative thing" is from 1620s. Meaning "railroad sleeping car" is from 1875. Sense of "something whose importance proves to be greater than expected" first attested 1892, originally in American English sports jargon, probably from earlier (1856) gambling slang sense of "unexpected winning card." Meaning "spy, enemy agent, terrorist etc. who remains undercover for a long time before attempting his purpose" first attested 1955, originally in reference to communist agents in the West.

造句：

1. standard sleeper

标准轨枕

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2. hardwood sleeper

硬木轨枕

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3. sleeper charges

卧车费

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4. sleeper tamping

枕木捣固

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5. sleeper spacing

轨枕间距

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6. transverse sleeper

横轨枕

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7. impregnated sleeper

防腐枕木|油浸枕木

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8. sleeper replacement

轨枕更换

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9. crossing sleeper

转辙枕木|岔枕

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10. sleeper pincers

枕木钳

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