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. 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.yygrammar.com)

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 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。