sleep的语法特点与搭配习惯
sleep的语法特点与搭配习惯
1. 用作动词,表示“睡(觉)”,是延续性动词,通常不与时间点连用。如:
正:I slept for eight hours. 我睡了8个小时。
误:I sleep at eight o’clock.
比较:I go to bed at eight o’clock. 我8点上床睡觉。
注意,不要弄错sleep late的意思,它表示“睡到很迟的时候”,也就是“起得晚”“睡懒觉”,不要误译为“睡得晚”。如:
On Sundays I like to sleep late. 星期天我爱睡懒觉。
Soon he took to sleeping late. (www.hxen.net)
要表示“睡得晚”,英语可用go to bed late, be late in going to bed, stay up late, have a late night等。如:
Recently he was busying writing a book, and often was late in going to bed. 最近他在赶写一本书稿,常常睡得很晚。
If you didn’t stay up so late every evening, you wouldn’t feel so sleepy in the morning. 如果你每天晚上睡得不那么晚,你早上不会感到那么困的。
2. 用作名词,表示一般意义的“睡眠”,是不可数名词;但有时可与不定冠词连用,表示“一段睡眠”或“一种……的睡眠”(其前通常有形容词修饰)。如:
He didn’t get much sleep. 他睡眠不足。
I often have a short sleep after lunch. 午饭后我通常要睡一会儿。
比较 go to sleep 与 go to bed:前者表示“入睡”,后者表示“上床睡觉”。如:
I usually go to bed at nine o’clock and go to sleep ten minutes afterwards. 我通常是9点上床睡觉,并且在10分钟后入睡。
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