sleepers

英 [ˈsliːpəz]

美 [ˈslipərz]

n.  睡得…的人; 睡觉者; 睡眠者; 卧铺列车
sleeper的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 睡觉…者;睡眠…的人
  You can usesleeperto indicate how well someone sleeps. For example, if someone is a lightsleeper, they are easily woken up.
  1. I'm a very light sleeper and I can hardly get any sleep at all...
     我睡觉很轻，几乎就没睡着。
  2. Poor sleepers take longer to fall asleep than good sleepers.
     与睡眠好的人相比，睡眠不好的人要花更长的时间才能入睡。
• (英国英语的)卧铺车厢,卧铺铺位（在美国英语中，sleeping car 指卧铺车厢，roomette 则指一个卧铺的铺位)
  In British English, asleeperis a carriage on a train containing beds for passengers to sleep in at night, or a section of such a carriage. The usual American words aresleeping carfor the carriage androomettefor the section.
• 卧铺列车
  Asleeperis a train with beds for its passengers to sleep in at night.
• (铁路上的)枕木
  Railwaysleepersare large heavy beams that support the rails of a railway track.

in AM, use 美国英语用 ties


• N-COUNT 出乎意料的成功者;爆冷门的人(或事物)
  If you describe someone or something as asleeper, you mean that they unexpectedly become successful, often after a long period of being inactive or unknown.
  1. ...Menno Meyjes, a young Dutch writer, who had had his first success with the sleeper 'The Children's Crusade'.
     凭借着《童子军》的意外走红而首尝成功的年轻荷兰作家——曼诺·梅耶斯

双语例句

• I'd like two hard sleepers to Beijing tomorrow.
  我要买两张明天到北京的火车票，硬卧。
• But short sleepers may suffer other bad effects.
  但是，睡眠不足的人可能会受到其他的不良影响。
• Good news for restless sleepers& researchers at the University of California tell us that kidney stones could be caused by sleeping too long in one position.
  对在睡眠中不太安稳的人来说，这是个好消息：加利福尼亚大学的研究者告诉我们，长时间保持一个睡眠姿势可能会导致肾结石。
• They recruited 12 healthy males, all good sleepers.
  于是他们招募了12名睡眠良好的健康男性。
• Anarchic sleepers fail to conform to convention regarding the proper time and place for sleep.
  无法无天的睡眠者无法遵照传统，在适切的时间与地点睡觉。
• Avoid unnecessary handling, reloading, and redistribution of the sleepers.
  避免轨枕不必要的搬运、重装和再分配。
• Late sleepers more sedentary and find it harder to exercise, study found.
  研究表明，晚睡的人都有久坐不动的习惯，很难坚持运动。
• Heavy sleepers and sleep-deprived people use the alarm clock to terminate sleep unnaturally, says Dr. Dinges.
  丁格斯博士说，深度睡眠者和睡眠不足人群都在用闹钟终结睡眠，这并不合乎自然规律。
• Because there should construction of railways, we want to do the train track sleepers too!
  因为那里要修建铁路，我们要为火车轨道做枕木呢！
• Install movement stoppers over the sleepers.
  在轨枕上安装阻动塞。