sleepy
英 [ˈsli:pi] 美 [ˈslipi]

adj.

欲睡的；困乏的；安静的；冷清的

英英释义

sleepy[ 'sli:pi ]

• adj.ready to fall asleep

  "beginning to feel sleepy"; "a sleepy-eyed child with drooping eyelids"; "sleepyheaded students"

  同义词：sleepy-eyedsleepyheaded

词组短语

feel sleepy困倦；昏昏欲睡

同近义词辨析

asleep, sleepy

这组词都有“欲睡的”的意思，其区别是：

asleep作表语，多用于非正式的英语里，指处于睡着的状态，侧重动作的结果。

sleepy最常用词，指人昏昏欲睡，或沉睡时的寂静状态。

asleep, sleepy, sleeping

asleep 睡着,熟睡,只能做表语, The baby is asleep.

sleepy 困的,有睡意的 I'm sleepy.

sleeping 正在睡觉, a sleeping baby

双语例句

用作形容词(adj.)

1. The softness of the breeze made him feel sleepy.
   柔和的微风使他昏昏欲睡。
2. I'm too sleepy to watch the end of the show.
   我太困倦了，不能把戏看完。
3. I often feel sleepy after supper and then I get my second wind later in the evening.
   我吃完晚饭常感到困，一到晚上就又精神了。
4. In his sleepy state, the sound of a car driving up to the house scarcely impinged on his consciousness.
   他困得那副样子，连汽车朝那房子开去时发出的声音都没能使他清醒。

权威例句

The sleepy adolescent: causes and consequences of sleepiness in teens
Sleepy Watermark Tracing: An Active Network-Based Intrusion Response Framework
Sleepy Watermark Tracing: An Active Network-Based Intrusion Response Framework
Performing while sleepy: Effects of experimentally-induced sleepiness.
Auditory awakening thresholds in sleepy and alert individuals.
Increased mortality among sleepy snorers: a prospectivepopulation based study
CPAP does not reduce blood pressure in non-sleepy hypertensive OSA patients
The road to danger: the comparative risks of driving while sleepy
Introduction: Stuffy is also related to Sleepy and Grumpy—The link between rhinitis and sleep-disordered breathing
Investigation of outbreaks of a novel disease, ‘Sleepy Grouper Disease’, affecting the brown‐spotted grouper, Epinephel...