sleeplessness

英

美

n.  失眠，警觉

医学

BNC.35976 / COCA.24526

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 不睡觉的;不眠的
  Asleeplessnight is one during which you do not sleep.
  1. I have sleepless nights worrying about her.
     我好几个晚上都睡不着，一直担心她。
• ADJ 睡不着的;失眠的
  Someone who issleeplessis unable to sleep.
  1. A sleepless baby can seem to bring little reward.
     宝宝睡不着觉似乎没有任何好处。

英英释义

noun

• a temporary state in which you are unable (or unwilling) to sleep
  1. accept your wakefulness and sleep in its own contrary way is more likely to come
  Synonym:wakefulness

双语例句

• Almost all other animals are clearly observed to partake in sleep, whether they are aquatic, aerial, or terrestrial, wrote Aristotle in his work On Sleep and Sleeplessness.
  亚里士多德在文章《论睡和醒》中写道：人们清楚地观察到，几乎所有的动物都会睡觉，不论是水生、陆生还是在空中飞翔的动物。
• Modern pharmacy has solved the problem of sleeplessness.
  现代药学已解决了失眠问题。
• Towards the end of his life he suffered from sleeplessness and ill health.
  他在临终的前几年患失眠症，健康很差。
• Sleeplessness produces a variety of health consequences that were not measured in the study, critics said.
  批评者们说这项研究未能考虑失眠对人们健康所造成的种种后果。
• Recurrent asthma symptoms frequently cause sleeplessness, daytime fatigue, reduced activity levels and school and work absenteeism.
  周期性哮喘症状往往导致失眠、日间疲劳、减少活动量，不能上学和工作。
• However, the depressed ones, who might suffer from sleeplessness, chose not to drink coffee because the caffeine might exacerbate it.
  然而，那些抑郁的人晚上可能会失眠，失眠了就不会再喝咖啡，因为咖啡因会使失眠更严重。
• Its only truly working for those who make pharmaceuticals for stress, diabetes, heart disease, sleeplessness and high blood pressure.
  这只对那些生产抗压、糖尿病、心脏病、失眠和高血压类药物的人有用。
• Of course, too much caffeine can cause restlessness, anxiety, irritability, tremors, sleeplessness, headaches, gastrointestinal symptoms and abnormal heart rhythms.
  当然，过多的咖啡因会导致烦躁、焦虑、兴奋、震颤、失眠、头痛、胃肠道症状以及不规律心律等等。
• These products are used for pain, fever, colds and sleeplessness.
  人们因疼痛，发热，感冒和失眠而广泛使用这些药物。
• Racing is something you cannot win unless you go through a period of sleeplessness and desperation and develop new technology in a very short period of time, he says via an interpreter.
  他通过翻译表示：如果你不曾经历过一个失眠和绝望的时期，并在极短的时间内开发出新技术，就无法在赛车场上获胜。