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SLEEP

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sleep I. substantiv

somn;

short sleep aţipire;

dead / heavy sleep somn greu / de plumb / de moarte;

winter sleep somn de iarnă / hibernal (al unor animale);

(lit.) the last sleep, the sleep that knows no waking, the sleep of death / of the tomb somnul de veci, somnul cel de pe urmă; somnul morţii;

to go to sleep, to drop off to sleep a adormi, a aţipi;

to fall into a deep /sound sleep a cădea într-un somn adânc, a adormi adânc;

to put a child to sleep a adormi un copil;

(sl.) to put smb. to sleep a omorî, a asasina;

to put smb’s suspicions to sleep a adormi bănuielile cuiva;

to be overcome with sleep a fi învins / doborât de somn, a ceda somnului;

he is ready to drop with sleep pică de somn, doarme de-a-n-picloarelea, îl doboară somnul;

I lose sleep over it îmi pierd somnul din pricina acestui lucru;

to try to get a sleep a încerca să aţipească / să închidă ochii / să doarmă;

to come out of one’s sleep a se trezi, a se deştepta (din somn);

to rouse smb. from his sleep a trezi / a deştepta pe cineva (din somn);

to have a good sleep a dormi bine;

I didn’t have a wink of sleep all night n-am închis ochii toată noaptea, am petrecut o noapte albă;

to walk in one’s sleep a fi somnambul;

to talk in one’s sleep a vorbi prin somn.

◊ my foot has gone to sleep mi-a amorţit piciorul.

sleep II. past şi part. trec. slept verb A. intranzitiv

a dormi; a adormi;

(fam.) to sleep like a log / top a dormi buştean / neîntors / butuc; a dormi un somn de plumb;

to sleep soundly a dormi adânc;

to sleep lightly a dormi uşor, a avea somnul uşor;

to sleep with one eye open a dormi iepureşte / numai cu un ochi / cu ochii deschişi;

to sleep without waking / without a break a dormi neîntors / fără a se trezi / netulburat / fără întrerupere;

to sleep the night through a dormi toată noaptea;

(fam.) where do you sleep? unde stai? unde te adăposteşti?;

to sleep with a woman a se culca cu o femeie.

sleep II. past şi part. trec. slept verb B. tranzitiv

(fam.) a house that can sleep ten people o casă în care pot dormi zece persoane;

to sleep the sleep of the just a dormi somnul drepţilor.

sleep II. past şi part. trec. slept verb C. reflexiv

to sleep oneself sober a dormi până îţi revii (după beţie).

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

By degrees, after the morning’s dawn, sleep came.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Keep the house quiet, let her sleep, and when she wakes, give her...

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

I am not sleepy, and, as I am not to be called till I awake, naturally I write till sleep comes.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Perhaps the less we see of it the better we shall sleep.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

That which comprises the place where a subject sleeps.

(Bedding Material, NCI Thesaurus)

‘Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.’

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was now much resting and sleeping.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

After many sleeps of travel, a long, long time, Yamikan comes to a land where there is no snow.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

His bed had been slept in.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He bade me say to you that the Lord Loring will not need your service to-night, as he sleeps with the Lord Chandos.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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